Posts tagged Attempts
Sencha Attempts to Revolutionize Mobile Animations
Oct 3rd
Sencha, a leader in HTML5 application frameworks, has released a new tool for developers to embed rich media animations for the Web and mobile devices. Sencha Animator provides developers with a new tool to create CSS3 animations without Flash that will work anywhere.
Sencha chose CSS3 for animations because most mobile devices make it hardware accelerated. That is the direct opposite of Flash, which is not hardware accelerated in almost any mobile device. CSS3 offers better rendering than Javascript, but Animator will also allow developers to integrate Javascript everywhere.
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Sencha hopes that creative developers can use Animator to create high quality ads that will increase return on investment and user engagement. The first release of Animator is for WebKit but Sencha says that it will also create for Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer 10 as well.
Animator tries to give developers an easy interface to create timelines in for animations. According to Sencha’s blog post, it supports “complex nested objects” but it supposed to be easy to see things happening inside a nested group using the animation indictor.
Sencha has included an object library inside of Animator which will help with maintaining a consistent look across projects. It also provides templates that are simple files that can be shared in a collaborative environment. The Javascript-everywhere feature is designed for interactivity and output options that can be added at the beginning or the end of a scene. So, if you want to add an interactive button to a project, that should not be difficult.
Importantly, Sencha supports mobile video standard ORMMA, which will be important to advertising inventory created through the framework. Also, unlike other Sencha announcements recently, Animator will be available immediately through their store at $199.
Check out this video of what can be done using Sencha Animator and tell us your thoughts on the new product in the comments.
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Report: Nearly 15% of Videos on Facebook Are Lifejacking Attempts [Updated]
Sep 6th
A new report from Symantec suggests that nearly 15% of all the videos posted on Facebook are attempts at “lifejacking,” a derivation of clickjacking where malicious programs take over a user’s Facebook profile.
ZDNet reports that Symantec conducted its research through its Norton Safe Web application that scans users news feed in Facebook. Lifejacking is perhaps one of the most annoying and painful ways to be hacked on Facebook. It allows the hacker to take control of the profile, spread viral messages and perhaps download viruses and Trojans to a user’s computer.
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Symantec is among many companies that have come out with a Facebook security app. Facebook partner Web Of Trust has an add-on where users can tag malicious links and security company Bitdefender has a similar product to Norton called Safego that scans user news feeds.
Lifejacking is nothing new on Facebook. It started to rise shortly after the release of the “Like” button. Often times it is associated with a link to an outrageous story or a video that is probably too good to be true. We noted in June 2010 that some status messages look like, “LOL This girl gets OWNED after a POLICE OFFICER reads her STATUS MESSAGE.” Not much has changed since then, as lifejacking has taken on the characteristics of any other type of spam and phishing attempts. Video lifejacking is often done by an iFrame overlay that brings a user to a site they were not expecting, hence taking control of Facebook login credentials and potentially performing “drive-by” downloads of malicious programs.
According to Bitdefender’s research from several months ago, 23% of Facebook users know a friend who has been infected with spam on the platform.
While we have no reason to doubt Symantec’s report, we have contacted Bitdefender to see if they have any additional information of LIfejacking stats. Bitdefender is one of the only other security companies that has an app that actively scans Facebook users’ news feeds for spam and phishing links. We will update this post when/if we here back from the company.
Bitdefender Weighs In On Lifejacking
[Update - Sept. 6 - 8:15 PDT]
Catalin Cosoi, the head of the online threats lab at Bitdefender, got back to us on what they see with lifejacking trends on Facebook. From his email:
It is quite difficult to estimate a precise percent of threats that spread through likejacking, since Facebook Graph Api doesn’t count external likes.
However, if we count only inside-the-service-likes, 15% looks like a pretty accurate estimate. If we were to include also external likes, based on our experience, we can estimate that up to 40% of the total amount of scams are spread through likejacking.
Also, we can estimate their efficiency based on the statistics offered by shortening services that have public stats.
For instance, a case study we did in March on a specific “See who viewed your profle” scam showed that the scam spread through approximately 287 unique URLs per wave. These unique URLs led to 14 unique Facebook applications on average.
Based on the data provided the the different shortening services they used, these URLs gathered 1,411,743 clicks and the distribution spike per URL was 34 hours. Also, not all shortening services offer these statistics, so the efficiency is definitely higher.
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Launch of Sophia Attempts to Support SEO – Kingpin Webmaster News
Sep 25th
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Launch of Sophia Attempts to Support SEO
Kingpin Webmaster News This is the premise suggested by Sophia as to its value for SEO. The logic of Sophia is tremendously flawed. First, every logical coherent keyword phrase … |
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Simon Cowell Attempts to Clear His Bad Repuation with SEO Optimization – Chip Chick
Aug 12th
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Simon Cowell Attempts to Clear His Bad Repuation with SEO Optimization
Chip Chick Supposedly, Cowell has hired an SEO Optimization firm to make sure that all Google searches on his name only produce stories of him cuddling with bunnies … Simon Cowell uses SEO Simon Cowell Is Smart! Business Matters: Simon Cowell, S-Curve, Eminem and more |
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