Facebook will now allow its 750 million registered users to post updates on both its platform and Twitter at the same time. This move will provide more content to Twitter, a social platform of 100 million active users.

To enable Twitter updates via Facebook, the user needs to go to facebook.com/twitter and link the profile page to the Twitter account.

Participant

• Michael Bowie – Host
• John Raul Joven II

In this episode, we discussed the following topics:

Facebook Developing HTML5-based Mobile Platform Dubbed Project Spartan

Starbucks App Hits Android With Mobile Payments

Hints That iPad 3 May Feature Retina Display

US officials say that the law enforcement needs to improve its ability to eavesdrop on conversations involving terrorism and crimes to ensure public safety.

That means Skype calls, social network data such as from Facebook and MySpace, mobile phones or a person’s internet browsing history can be logged, tracked, and kept by Internet Service Providers. As part of the new bill, Internet Service Providers would be required to be able to intercept and crack into encrypted messages whenever the government shows up with a warrant.

Privacy groups and communication firms are already voicing opposition to the proposed Internet wiretapping legislation.
Critics worry that the changes would encourage unnecessary invasion of privacy, and would make businesses and citizens more vulnerable to identity theft.

Law enforcement officials, however, say that new legislation for technology is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.

Valerie E. Caproni, general counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation says, “We’re talking about lawfully authorized intercepts, We’re not talking expanding authority. We’re talking about preserving our ability to execute our existing authority in order to protect the public safety and national security.”

Whether this bill will pass, most likely it will.

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• KIDO’Z, THE CHILD-FRIENDLY WEB BROWSER
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• HIGH FIVE AT EPISODE 5: CONTEST WINNERS
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Here are the five lucky winners of Episode 5′s contest with Top Hosting Center’s Speedy hosting plan with domain names valid for 12 months as prizes.

And the names of the winners are:

• Jonatan Escobar of Florida, USA
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Congratulations!

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Good news to everyone, my podcast co-host Brad of Tech Webcast announced that he’s going to sponsor Tech Conclave a new microphone. On May 23rd, he posted the good condenser microphone and it’s presently on its way from Melbourne to Davao. I’d like to personally thank Brad for this and hopefully our show will have better audio quality when it arrives.

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Thank for watching this episode and thanks for those who participate the recent contest sponsored by Top Hosting Center. Catch you all next episode.

And always remember, it’s good to be geek.

So if you use Facebook, don’t click on those links and my tip is always check the URL bar. There’s always a bar at the top of the browser that says exactly where you are at. If it doesn’t say “facebook.com/ [whatever],” it’s not Facebook.

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With so many competitions such as MySpace and Facebook, will twitter really survive with its only feature being broadcasting status updates and messaging back and forth?

Twitter’s user loyalty problem will have a great impact in its feature success… or failure. With 60% of Twitter’s users not returning until the following month to use Twitter’s service, Twitter is lagging behind Facebook and MySpace.

Now with Facebook also opening its stream to API developers, it now allows any developer to create new applications incorporating the real-time stream of Facebook. With so many Twitter applications using Twitter API stream created for desktop and mobile applications, Facebook has fired back allowing its API stream to be used by any developer, this means new competition for Twitter.

What do you say about Twitter’s future? Does it stand against today’s social networking giants Facebook or MySpace? We will have to wait and see who takes advantage of Facebook’s new API stream and how Twitter will respond back. Until then, Twitter remains head to head with Facebook.