Information Madness

Facebook rolls out its new photo viewer inspired by Google +. This has come as a fresh variation to its user interface. The latest change in the Facebook photo viewer has got its inspiration from Google +. The interaction panel is to the right compared to its previous position below the image. This variation to the photo viewer has come a year after the last major change when Facebook introduced a light-box like effect to its photo viewer and also made sharing easier.

Sentiment analysis on social networking sites is becoming a big business in many areas.  For example, the barrage of posts on Twitter last year about Netflix may have tipped off investors to influence a swing in the stocks that affected about eight billion dollars from the movie rental company’s market value in a matter of just three months.

When your email is hacked, think about protecting your investments first. Most of the time, when people get hacked, they worry about their Facebook friends getting annoyed with them. Before you bother about your friends, get your finances right. While you are alerting your friends, the hacker may be emailing your brokers to wire your assets to a bank account unknown to you. If that happens, no government or securities industry agency is under obligation to reimburse your losses to you.

Google Inc. has removed some controversial content from its Indian services to be obedient to a court order in a civil lawsuit. This is the latest twist that has taken place in the legal drama over internet censorship in India. The content was removed from its search sites, YouTube and Blogger, after receiving an order from a New Delhi District Court.

Astronomers have managed to create the world’s largest virtual optical telescope by linking four large telescopes at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. They will operate as a single device. The Paranal Observatory is located some 8,500 feet above the sea level.