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7:40 AM ET, August 6, 2007

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Brad Stone / New York Times:
'Fake Steve' Blogger Comes Clean  —  For the last 14 months, high-tech insiders have been eating up the work of an anonymous blogger who assumed the persona of Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive and one of the world's most famous businessmen.  —  The mysterious writer has used his blog …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Damn, I am so busted, yo  —  Well it had to happen.  Honestly I can't believe it's taken this long.  But as you may have heard, I've been busted by a newspaper reporter.  My cover has been blown.  Guy named Brad Stone, who works for the New York Times.  Have you heard of him?
Forbes:
Fake Steve Jobs Comes To Forbes.com  —  "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs," a satirical blog about Apple's iconic chief executive and purporting to be penned by him, will be published in association with Forbes.com starting Aug. 6.  —  "From Jonathan Swift to Jon Stewart …
Discussion: The Blog Herald and Churbuck.com
Brad Stone / New York Times:
The Trial of Fake Steve Jobs
Discussion: Inquirer and Valleywag
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Fake Fake Steve Jobs On Forbes.com
Discussion: Scobleizer and WinBeta
Valleywag:   Investigations: Forbes editor Daniel Lyons is Fake Steve Jobs
Microsoft:
Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch  —  Microsoft's Photosynth 3-D imagery gives people around the world unprecedented views of the shuttle vehicle and its launchpad.  —  For the first time, people around the world can view 3-D images of the space shuttle Endeavour …
Discussion: Brandon LeBlanc
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:   Microsoft Photosynth Covers Shuttle Endeavour Pre-Launch
Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:
Microsoft, NASA Team on Shuttle Photos
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Wibrain's B1 UMPC: hideous, yet strangely appealing  —  Ok, it's ugly as sin (and pretty thick, to boot), but we have to give props to Wibrain's new B1 UMPC.  Besides coming equipped with a Via C7m CPU up to 1.6GHz, 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1, a VGA camera, HSDPA, and a full QWERTY keyboard and trackpad …
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and Incremental Blogger
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Richer Ajax support for Facebook  —  Mock Ajax?  Huh.  That is what I thought when I first read the documentation on building Facebook applications.  It was a little sad to see that your choice was either to use the "mock ajax" calls, or to jump into iframe land and do everything on your server …
John Markoff / New York Times:
I.B.M. Near Supercomputer Contract  —  The National Science Foundation is planning to award I.B.M. a contract to build the world's fastest supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to documents …
Steve Safran / Lost Remote:
Guy live-Twitter's wife's childbirth, lives to tell about it  —  Rex points us to what has to be a first in Twitter-land.  Twitter user taulpaul (real name Paul Saarinen) live-Twittered his wife, Annemarie, giving birth.  Cool idea - breaking news for your friends who are dying to know the latest.
Discussion: Scobleizer, Mashable! and seattleduck
Moon Ihlwan / Business Week:
South Koreans Want Their M-TV!  —  Mobile TV programming on cell phones and other digital devices is hot in South Korea, though turning the mania into profits is devilishly tough  —  While Europe and the U.S. are trying to sort out technology standards and spectrum availability for mobile TV …
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Agence France Presse:
Regulations may shake up US mobile telephone market  —  WASHINGTON (AFP) - The mercenary US mobile telephone market faces a rough shake-up after authorities set new rules for auctioning airwaves, boosting users' freedom to switch providers and access the Internet by phone.
Rodney Rumford / FaceReviews.com:
Facebook is a Niche Market  —  So I did a video the other day about what makes a successful facebook app.  Someone on facebook (not this blog) commented that Facebook applications are for a niche within a niche within a niche.  You know what?  He is absolutely correct.
Jeff Pulver / Business Week:
Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout  —  Blogger Jeff Pulver quit the professional network in favor of Facebook and urged his friends to do the same.  Here's why he's not looking back  —  Are you on Facebook yet?  Maybe you should be.  —  I made this pronouncement on my blog recently …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Is Blogging Ready For a Unionized Workforce?  —  According to the Wall Street Journal, a coalition of left-wing bloggers is trying to form a labor union that they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining and set professional standards.
Discussion: Telegraphik and MediaVidea
Laurie Sullivan / NewTeeVee:
EdgeCast Ready To Take On Akamai, Limelight  —  Paying less for bandwidth to serve-up streaming media and downloadable video clips on websites could become the bait that hooks the customer.  At least that's what James Segil, co-founder and President of content delivery network, EdgeCast Networks hopes.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
 
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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
Crime: GayGamer Target of Hate Crime
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Mary Brandel / Computerworld:
New Rules  —  In the course of a recent study on women in IT …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Survey says: only DRM-free music is worth paying for
Discussion: broadstuff
Computerworld:
Sensitive Data Leaking Onto P2P Networks
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Orbious Will Make Forwarding Confidential Documents Dangerous
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Online Search/Commerce Services Firm Accoona Files For $80.5 Million IPO
Discussion: WebProNews and Mashable!
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From
Discussion: GigaOM and WinExtra
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Bulletin from the Googleplex: Google to Search "All the World's Videos"
Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.2.2 and 2.0.11  —  Today we have two security …
Robert Mullins / PC World:
E-Voting OK With New Security
Discussion: Computerworld and Engadget