“OMG!! Guys, you have to see this: This mother went to jail for taking this pic of her son! —> [URL]” one of the spam messages reads. Clicking on the link takes users to a rogue Facebook profile with a name similar to the message.

This profile has a page called ‘SEE HERE!’ which instructs users to “Like” it in order to see the intriguing picture. Furthermore, to entice people even more it promises that “Your jaw will drop to the floor!”

Liking the page will get users no closer to seeing a image and will instead ask them to spread more spam, this time by posting the original message on their wall for all their family and friends to see. Users who are gullible enough to accept this, will finally get a link to allegedly see the elusive picture.

Unfortunately, following it doesn’t have the expected result and prompts users to take one of four surveys as a “security check.” Taking a survey is definitely not a good idea as there are high chances of ending up being billed for some sort of premium service and compromised personal information.

The second scam is almost identical in concept as the first, but uses a different lure. In this case the spam message reads “OMG!! McDonalds might soon shut down because of this, you have to see this! –> [URL]” and no, it’s no better than the first. If you are a victim of any of them make sure to delete the rogue messages from your profile and remove the fake pages from your Like list.

“I really feel like despairing that the general public will ever learn to avoid dodgy links like this. Far too many people are prepared to endorse and share links on Facebook without properly thinking about what they are doing. In this case they’re doing it before they have any clue about what lies behind the page,” Graham Cluley, senior security at antivirus vendor Sophos, commented.

First thing that customers will notice is the overhauled graphical user interface sported by Firefox 4.0 Alpha. The revamped UI is tailored to Windows 7’s Aero GUI, with a full transparency effect, similar to that of Internet Explorer 8 running on top of the latest version of the Windows client. At the same time, the redesign now allows users to place the Tabs on top of the Address Bar, and switch off the Menu, to achieve a Ribbon/Fluent-like look and feel. The evolution of Firefox 4.0’s UI is not yet done, but, when it will be completed, the browser will share style elements with Office 2010 and Office 2007.

Another notable feature, but this time around for developers, is support for WebM. Mozilla revealed since day 1 of the WebM project that it was backing the initiative, and, by the looks of it, the company is going to provide native support for WebM, with the focus on VP8. In this regard, VP8 will be the second HTML 5 codec Firefox will play nice with, in addition to Ogg Theora. Both Mozilla and Opera have so far ignored H.264. Anyway, you can download it here!

Mozilla is introducing 32 new Persona themes for each of the participating countries at the final tournament. What’s more, it is also holding a world cup of its own, by encouraging fans to compete with each other – the country with the most Personas installed gets crowned as a champion in about a month’s time.

“Being in front of your computer doesn’t mean you have to miss out on all the action, you can participate with the Firefox Cup. By wearing one of these 32 Personas to support your team, you’ll take part in the global Firefox Cup competition,” the announcement also read.

The themes, as it is to be expected from these official Personas, look polished enough and don’t render the buttons and other elements hard to make out like some Personas do. They’re all pretty similar, featuring plenty of green from the football pitch and the country flag in the right corner.

The Firefox Cup competition is already underway. Fans of each team can battle it out to show that they’re the greatest supporters. Already, plenty of people have pitched in and an early ranking took shape. Argentina has taken the lead so far with over 1,200 people ‘wearing’ its Persona, but, just like in the real competition, Brazil is putting up a good fight and is not far behind, with 900 installs. The first round of the competition closes on June 16th and the final winner will be announced on July 14th.

• If you offer website design services, is the design of your own website up to par?
• Do you own your own domain name, or does yours contain the names, “Geocities”, “Angelfire” or “Tripod”?
• Can you back up your claims with cold, hard, indisputable and verifiable facts?
• Do you have your name, telephone number and street address on your website?
• Do you use authentic customer testimonials, complete with first and last names?
• Do you offer a fair and reasonable money-back guarantee?
• If you choose not to have a merchant account, do you use a reputable payment processor like ClickBank that will actually stand behind and honor your guarantee?

If you can’t answer yes to every single one of the above questions, you have a serious credibility problem! And it’s costing you a lot more money than you realize. When potential customers arrive at your website for the first time, they’re both apprehensive and skeptical–and rightfully so. With so many scam artists and rip-offs prevalent on the Internet, you have to expect and anticipate that type of mindset.

That’s why it’s critical you put your prospects minds at ease the moment they land on your website. And the best way to do that is to instill confidence by utilizing the steps that is mentioned earlier. If you follow those steps, I guarantee you and your website will both have credibility and you’ll have the profits to prove it.

What it means is that feed subscribers to any of the blogs hosted by WordPress.com will get notified instantly when their favorite blogs post something new, if they use a feed reader that supports PuSH, like Google Reader, anyway. The new feature is already live, so WordPress.com users are already taking advantage of it. If you’re hosting your own blog using WordPress software, you can install the new PuSHPress plugin to get access to the same functionality.

PuSH is a real-time web protocol designed to completely revamp the way feeds get published. Until now, feed clients would ping a blog or a site every so often to see if there is anything new. This introduced a noticeable lag between the time an article would be published and the time it landed in people’s feed readers, sometimes even hours. PuSH changes things over. Both the publisher and the reader connect to a central hub. When a new piece is published, the hub is notified immediately. The hub server then notifies all the subscribers that there’s something new and the entire process usually doesn’t take more than a few seconds.