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RockYou Hacker: 30% of Sites Store Plain Text Passwords

By Jolie O'Dell / December 16, 2009 5:05 PM / View Comments

In a chat today lasting over an hour, we got to talk to a person claiming to be the infamous hacker behind RockYou's latest data security woes.

While he claimed to have no animosity toward users, he had one clear message for websites: Take better care of your customers' data. RockYou isn't the only hacked site storing plain text login information, either.

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Frengo Launches Mobile Open Social Toolkit

By Josh Catone / April 2, 2008 7:48 AM

Mobile social networking company Frengo has released a toolkit for development of Open Social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. The Open Social Mobile Toolkit supports MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and Facebook and allows developers of applications on those networks to extend them to the mobile phone. In addition to extending support for the Open Social and Facebook platforms to the mobile phone, the Frengo toolkit allows developers to monetize applications via the company's social advertising platform or via premium SMS.

Picking a Platform: 5 Issues to Consider

By Sean Ammirati / March 30, 2008 9:50 PM

A month ago, ReadWriteWeb writer Marshall Kirkpatrick utilized his huge network of Twitter followers to facilitate a discussion about APIs and platforms. He shared the highlights of the conversation in a post on this blog. The discussion was one that really captured our imaginations, so today we're exploring the issue further and presenting 5 dynamics that you should consider when picking a platform.

Graphing Social Patterns Recap

By Emre Sokullu / March 6, 2008 11:40 AM

O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns conference, which was held this week in San Diego, brought together key people who are shaping the newly born social platforms industry; platform providers, app makers, investors, advertising networks, etc. Our own Sean Ammirati was one of the speakers and has already covered some of the most important bits from the conference, including Charlene Li's keynote. In this post, we'll quickly recap and highlight some of the important announcements and important data that we were able to extract. We also have a short interview with RockYou! founder and CTO Jia Shen.