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4:20 PM ET, August 3, 2007

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Sunir / Fresh Thinking:
Amazon Flexible Payment Service  —  Introducing Amazon Flexible Payment Service  —  A couple months ago the good folks at Amazon invited FreshBooks to be among their first few 3rd party integrators with Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS), the next leg in their amazing line up of web services.
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Ka-Ching!  —  Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses.  —  This encouragement has taken many forms over the years.  Let's revisit some of the more interesting moments in the last 5 years of AWS history...
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
LOOK OUT, PAYPAL: AMAZON HAS A NEW PAYMENT SERVICE
Discussion: 901am
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:   Amazon's Flexible Payments Service to compete with Google Checkout, PayPal
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Wall Street Journal fuels GooglePhone rumour mill  —  We know that Google, the web's dominant advertising agency, is planning to extend its reach into the mobile phone industry — there have been plenty of stories about that, but little detail.  Now the Wall Street Journal has provided some.
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BBC:
Google sidesteps mobile reports  —  Google has refused to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone.  —  Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a "GPhone", centred on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps.
Searcharazzi / Search Engine Land:
Forget the GPhone, we want the new GCar
BBC:
Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack  —  Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air.  —  Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it far easier to steal account details, said Robert Graham of Errata Security.
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News and Compiler
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Wendy M. Grossman / The Register:
Fun with passports and paperclips
Discussion: CNET News.com
Fred / A VC:
The Open Social Network  —  We've got social networks with lots of users, like MySpace, Beebo, Facebook, etc, and we've got open social networks like Marc Canter's People Aggregator and Marc Andreessen's Ning.  But we really don't yet have an open social network with a lot of users.
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Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Lenovo targets rural China with basic PC  —  BEIJING - Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.  —  Lenovo's announcement follows rival Dell Inc.'s bid to boost its presence in China's booming market …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:   Lenovo aims for 'rural market,' announces $199 desktop for China
BBC:
Firms withdraw BNP Facebook ads  —  Six major firms have withdrawn advertisements from the networking website Facebook, after they appeared on a British National Party page.  —  First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, the AA, Halifax and the Prudential have all withdrawn ads.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Twitter Is Now An Extension Of My Blogging
Discussion: Feedonomics
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Billboard Expands Hot 100 Chart To Include Streaming Media Data  —  Billboard is augmenting its ranking of digital music sales for its Hot 100 chart formula by including weekly streamed and on-demand music data from Yahoo and AOL Music.  The magazine began factoring in the sale of digital tracks …
Discussion: Contentinople
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eMediaWire:   Billboard Revamps Hot 100 Chart With Online Music Data From AOL Music and Yahoo!
Ari Levy / Bloomberg:
Yahoo to Revamp Video Site After Losing to YouTube  —  Aug. 2 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc., after losing out to Google Inc.'s YouTube, is revamping its video site by the end of the year to include more content from media companies and Internet users.  —  Music videos, movie trailers …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Report: Plaxo to unveil social network on Monday  —  If two months' worth of perpetual hype and hearsay about Facebook have given you social networking fatigue, it might be time to chug an energy drink—looks like we will see another serious entry into the field on Monday.
Discussion: WebProNews, Download Squad and tbites
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo!'s bet on Hadoop  —  One of the most important announcements at Oscon last week was Yahoo!'s commitment to support Hadoop.  We've been writing about Hadoop on radar for a while, so it's probably not news to you that we think Hadoop is important.  —  Yahoo's involvement …
Wil Harris / Inquirer:
Tech rags forced to face unpalatable facts  —  Analysis Online is the way, unless it isn't  —  WHAT TO make of the recent wave of high-profile defections, replacements and general crashes over in the SF tech press?  Some might suggest it's the death of print.  Some suggest it's the death of online.
Reuters:
Microsoft slashes Vista price in China  —  Microsoft has more than halved the retail price of its Vista operating system in China.  —  The Home Basic edition dropped from $201 (1,521 yuan) to $66, and the Home Premium package dropped from $238 to $118.  The move was effective as of Wednesday.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Follow-up: Federated Media's Network Show - WebbAlert and Disclosure  —  Yesterday, I discussed the potential issues of disclosure with FM's new TV show, "Webb Alert."  The feedback I have received (mostly on Skype and in email) agrees with me that there is something wrong here.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
True Story: Man Goes Through Vasectomy to Get iPhone  —  A Gizmodo reader underwent a vasectomy to get an Apple iPhone, following his wife's orders after a road trip with his kids to Boise, Idaho.  But fear not, dear readers-with-your-manly-parts-still- intact, because his amazing tale …
Discussion: PalmAddicts, Forever Geek and digg
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft resolves lawsuit over Xbox Fall Update  —  Microsoft has reached a resolution in one Xbox 360 lawsuit.  The latest court filing in the case of Kevin Ray v. Microsoft Corp. (PDF, 3 pages) indicates that the two sides have agreed to dismiss the case.
Discussion: Engadget and WinBeta
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse  —  The brainchild of several ex-Netscape execs, the Mountain View start-up Multiverse, as the name suggests, isn't a single online world, but a platform for creating games and other 3D experiences with the company's development tools, which are then run on its servers.
Lachlan Hardy / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Mashup Editor  —  I just got in to the shiny new beta for the Google Mashup Editor and I wanted to share my thoughts on it with you.  Like Yahoo! Pipes before it (our review here), the Google Mashup Editor provides a simple interface that enables developers to make basic web applications and mashups quickly.
Discussion: Ajaxian
 
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Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
PlayStation 3 complications caused GTA IV delay - analyst
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Nokia to jump on music download bandwagon?
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