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Maybe I am missing the point of the article, but isn’t social media just that “social”? How social can you really get with 88,000 people?

A Twitter Rock Concert

It’s like a rock concert where 25-50 lucky people get a back stage pass to interact with the band personally and the other 87,950 are a mix of catching good sound and visual (front row) to seeing dots bouncing on a stage and a horrible audio mix bouncing off the rafters (nose bleed section!).

What interaction is there at the concert outside the first row or to those who get the occasional high five from the singer, or the few that get the mic held out to them during a chorus? A bunch of yelling and screaming from 87,950 that you cannot discern a single voice from.

How many @replies are missed from crowd like that on Twitter?

Enough that it takes the term social out of the equation I would think.

If we look at basic web usage, any decent web developer, designer and web site owner has always understood that a high number of visitors is always a good thing. However, a lower number of quality visitors is even better. We also know that quality content that is of interest to visitors is what gains more visitors, more shares and more visibility. If you can gain a high number of quality visitors, then that’s the best.

I kind of think Twitter follows that same basic principle….follow quality and produce quality. The numbers will come about on their own to the proper mix if you have done it right.

Social Is About Quality Interaction

Think of it this way – the 87,950 people at our rock concert that have the potential to scream (in this case Tweet) back are trying to gain the attention of one person, attention that is already being gained and utilized by a small few. At what point is one person so overloaded, especially with all the interactions so many already have online and offline, that they just get glazed over and only pay attention to the backstage pass people, and those in their front row? They may create quality for many, may even get a bit of quality from few but the rest is garbled screaming coming from the crowd – ignored.

Another analogy? Sure. Ok. What if say, Dell or Wal-Mart started a Twitter account for the sole purpose of getting as much exposure and as many followers as possible? People would be outraged and would call it for what it was – a disrespect for the medium used and a disrespect for those that either one of the two entities wish to “communicate with”. You can be for sure that the communication “given” would be much more than what either of the two “received”, which makes it very one sided…..and who likes a one sided conversation?

That’s not quality at all in the social web world we have at our hands right now. Remember, there have been numerous rock bands that really weren’t that great that were able to sell out arenas. They aren’t around anymore, are they? I didn’t think so.

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Exploit code for a vulnerability in Firefox was posted online on Monday. Mozilla says it is working on a fix.

US-CERT on Tuesday warned about vulnerability in the new Firefox 3.5 browser that could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code.Proof-of-concept exploit code was posted Monday on Milw0rm.com, an exploit code aggregation site, so it’s likely that the vulnerability is being actively exploited.

Mitch Wagner gives us a first look at Firefox 3.5, inlcuding some of its new user interface features, privacy mode, its geolocation capability, and its new embedded video and audio functionality using HTML 5.

The vulnerability, discovered by Simon Berry-Byrne, is related to the way Firefox 3.5 processes JavaScript code.Mozilla has acknowledged the vulnerability and has a fix that’s being tested. “The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker who tricks a victim into viewing a malicious Web page containing the exploit code,”the company said on its security blog. “The vulnerability can be mitigated by disabling the JIT in the JavaScript engine.

To do this:

1) Enter about:config in the browser’s location bar.

2) Type jit in the Filter box at the top of the config editor.

3) Double-click the line containing javascript.options.jit.contentsetting the value to false.

As an alternative, the NoScript plug-in, which disables all JavaScript in the browser, should also offer protection.

Secunia, a computer security company based in Denmark, rates the vulnerability “highly critical” and notes that older versions of Firefox may be affected as well.

F-Secure, a computer security company based in Finland, said in ablog post that its Exploit Shield security software blocks the exploit.

In an interview on Monday about a bug in Google’s Chrome browser, Robert “RSnake” Hansen, CEO of SecTheory, a computer security consulting firm, criticized Firefox’s security process as being less rigorous than Microsoft’s. “For the most part, it’s just a bunch of random dudes who are contributing to it,” he said.

Nevertheless, Hansen said that Firefox, rather than Internet Explorer, was his browser of choice because it was better for hacking.

Johnathan Nightingale, whose business card says “human shield” — he manages the front-end team for Firefox and security issues — says he’s proud of the work Mozilla does and that he can’t compare Mozilla’s efforts to Microsoft’s because Microsoft’s security process isn’t open.

He notes that Mozilla devotes significant resources to security and that the company’s security team has been growing. He welcomes those who want to contribute to Mozilla to make it more secure.

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