Egyptian Authorities Block Facebook and Twitter Again

arly today, Egyptian authorities unblocked Facebook and Twitter, but they went into blocking it again according to ArabCrunch sources in Egypt.

The blocking is an attempt to stifle the Friday of Anger demonstrations tomorrow against dictatorship and tyranny, as Facebook and Twitter are used by activists to inform the world about the Egyptian revolution, rally support to bring more Egyptians  to join the efforts to topple Husni Mubarak regime and coordinate demonstration places and paths .

However there are several ways to bypass blocking: using a proxy server, Tor project and Opera browser with Turbo enabled.

To follow the events in Egypt follow hashtag #jan25 #25Jan. on Facebook we are all khaled Saed Page and RNN (arabic and sometimes English headlines)

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Facebook’s Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product

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Facebook 'unnamed app' bug is fixed

(CNN) -- Word of a Facebook bug spread on the social networking site Wednesday before the "unnamed app," which officials say wasn't harmful, was fixed.

Facebook members used their status updates to warn online friends about the glitch. The following was the language many users copied and passed on:

"ALERT >>>>> Has your facebook been running slow lately? Go to "Settings" and select "application settings", change the dropdown box to "added to profile". If you see one in there called "un named app" delete it... Its an internal spybot. Pass it on. about a minute ago....i checked and it was on mine."

Facebook said the weirdness was real, but never a real threat.

"Due to a small bug, an application listed as 'Unnamed App' appeared in some users' Applications Settings," spokeswoman Malorie Lucich said in an e-mail to CNN. "No user accounts or data were lost or damaged."

Lucich said the bug had been fixed by Wednesday afternoon.

Multiple Facebook users reported that while the application was in their settings they got fake messages telling them a friend had commented on one of their photos or other posts.

Others said that when they removed the application, their "boxes" tabs on their Facebook page disappeared.

By Wednesday afternoon, Facebook users were having fun with the bug. "Unnamed App" had its own fan page on the site -- albeit with a paltry 105 fans.

"Thanks for your personal data, people! Keep those passwords coming," read one note posted by the page's administrator.

It included a supposed inbox scanner beneath the words, "Molesting your inbox. Please wait."

Original articl by cnn

Facebook’s Project Titan: A Full Featured Webmail Product

Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer.

Facebook messaging has been the bane of users’ existence for years. My first public gripe was in 2008, when I said that urgent changes were needed. The biggest problem is simply deleting old emails. It takes so long that I have thousands of unread and read but not deleted messages in my inbox.

But Facebook messaging is also only indirectly linked to the email, which is still the standard way that people exchange digital messages when not on Facebook.

Facebook has occasionally dabbled with improvements to messaging, like adding the ability to search messages. But for the most part it has remained static. And not very useful.

Even MySpace moved away from their aging messaging platform to a true webmail service in 2008 (albeit one that lacked POP or IMAP support).

But now Facebook is getting itself back in the game. And if the details we’ve heard are accurate, Project Titan, or whatever it’s called when it launches, may be the kind of product people flock to.

First, our understanding is that there will be full POP/IMAP support, meaning users can access the account other than through Facebook itself. Your email account name will be your technologya – technologya@facebook.com.

Email is all about identity. And Facebook is ahead of everyone else in the identity game via Facebook Connect. Facebook says more than 60 million people log in to 80,000 third party websites each month via Facebook Connect.

Tacking a real webmail product on top of those vanity URLs and Facebook connect is something even Google may shudder at. Gmail killer? I don’t think so. But a strong product move nonetheless.

Original artical by techcrunch