Author: Ricky

Facebook Jul 12, 2011

Facebook Blocks Legitimate Contact Exporter Tool – Open-XChange

With Google+ knocking at the door, Facebook can recognize a tool, that users can use to break away from Facebook’s aim of locking them in Facebook, when it sees one. So, Facebook did what they did to Facebook Friend Exporter – they banned Open-Xchange’s tool despite the fact that it did not violate anything.

Google Jul 11, 2011

General Manager Of CO.CC Challenges Google To Deindex Blogspot And Facebook Pages

A few days back, we reported that Google has removed more than 11 million .co.cc websites. Today James Kim, the General Manager of CO.CC, has taken to the Google Webmaster Forum saying that Google made a mistake because 99.99% of the co.cc websites are clean. He also commented that Google ought to remove Blogspot and Facebook if they want to be fair.

Google Jul 10, 2011

Google+ Runs Out Of Disk Space; Spams Users

Yesterday, many users of Google+ noticed Google spamming their inbox with multiple email notifications in very quick succession. Earlier today, Vic Gundotra, Head of Social at Google, explained what was causing it – Google ran out of disk space on the server that keeps track of notifications.