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7:20 PM ET, July 20, 2008

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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Amazon S3 Down  —  Amazon's S3 storage service appears to be down.  CenterNetworks images are broken because of it and I had to move the style sheet back so the site at least renders correctly.  Sites like Twitter have massive broken images currently because Amazon S3 is down.
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Don MacAskill / SmugMug Status Updates:
Amazon S3 outage causes SmugMug outage [UPDATED: 1:20pm PST]  —  Amazon's S3 service, SmugMug's primary storage provider, is currently experiencing problems.  As a result, a large portion of the photos and videos stored on SmugMug are currently offline.  —  Historically, Amazon has been very stable.
Paul Graham / Y Combinator:
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund  —  When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see.  In the past we've never said publicly what they are.  If we say we're looking for x, we'll get applications proposing x, certainly.  But then it actually becomes harder to judge them …
iPhone Hacks:
Step-by-Step Guide to Pwn first generation iPhone running firmware 2.0 using Windows  —  The iPhone Dev Team released their Pwnage Tool 2. to jailbreak and unlock the first generation (original) iPhone running iPhone firmware 2. yesterday, but only Mac users could use the tool as they are yet …
Discussion: Elliott C. Back, Engadget and Gizmodo
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:   Dubious achievement: Hackers ‘jailbreak’ the iPhone 3G
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Pwnage jailbreak tool for iPhone OS 2.0 released
Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Uber-Hacker Kevin Mitnick Signs Tell-All Book Deal  —  Kevin Mitnick is going to tell his side of the story.  And he's going to get paid for it.  —  Speaking to an adoring crowd of 800 at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference, Mitnick, once described as the “most wanted computer hacker in the world …
Times of London:
Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents  —  A top aide to Gordon Brown has been a suspected victim of a “honeytrap” operation by Chinese intelligence agents.  —  The aide, a senior Downing Street adviser who was with the prime minister on a trip to China earlier this year …
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
My Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors  —  For eight years, Arnold Kim has been trading gossip, rumor and facts about Apple, the notoriously secretive computer company, on his Web site, MacRumors.com.  —  It had been a hobby — albeit a time-consuming one — while Dr. Kim earned his medical degree.
Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
iPhone Reconciliation  —  It's amusing to see a bunch of people in the tech community having trouble reconciling their love for the iPhone vs. how closed and proprietary it is.  It's a real conundrum... The iPhone 3G is the best mobile phone there is, bar none, in both functionality and usability.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
StudiVZ Won't Comment On Facebook Lawsuit, But Will Talk Smack In General  —  StudiVZ, the Facebook clone (and by clone, we mean exact duplicate) in Germany, says in an email that they still havn't received the lawsuit complaint filed by Facebook on Friday.  The lawsuit claims intellectual …
Discussion: All Facebook and Mashable!
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Windows 95 Lead Architect Is a Mac Convert, Launches First iPhone App  —  After he left Microsoft, Satoshi Nakajima, the lead architect of Windows 95 and a “defining force” in the creation of Internet Explorer 3.0, wanted to understand why people were so into Apple.
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Lonnie Lazar / Cult of Mac:
Microsoft's Windows 95 Architect Is a Happy Mac Convert
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
The Internet—a private eye's best friend  —  NEW YORK—For private investigator Steven Rambam, the Internet is his most valuable tool in helping to find missing persons, cheating husbands, and your competitor's dirty secrets.  —  But while the intelligence business is booming …
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com
George Raine / San Francisco Chronicle:
More businesses considering ‘wisdom of crowds’  —  We've heard a lot about the “wisdom of crowds” in recent years, mostly in relation to Internet sites that let their readers make key decisions.  —  Digg.com, for instance, is a news site that lets its readers choose which stories are most important.
 
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James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Who's Going to Fund the Next Steve Jobs?
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iPhone rants and raves
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Startup Job Site Gets Backing From Y Combinator, Relauches As Startuply
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Esme Vos / MuniWireless:
Europe leads global Wi-Fi hotspot growth; free Wi-Fi model gaining ground
Discussion: GottaBeMobile and DSLreports
David Smith / Guardian:
The 20-year-old at heart of web's most anarchic and influential site
Discussion: metarand
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Microsoft Winning Digital Living Room War on Paper, but Failing …
Discussion: Podcasting News
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pressflip Is A Belly Flop
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Serious YouTube test of copyright law
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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