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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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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much?
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Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Hello Goodbye — Something just happened and I think it may be important. While not everything has been put in place, it appears the necessary ingredients for a conversational platform - correction, open conversational platform - have been added to the mix.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Exclusive: Twhirl gets pushy with Identi.ca — The next update of Twhirl will get support for yet another nanoblogging service, Identi.ca, and on that platform Twhirl will feature a communication method that Twitter users have been asking for: push updates. — Read to end of story for the download link and instructions.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Qik launches public beta. New phones, new carriers and new features abound — Live video-streaming site Qik has garnered a lot of buzz for its alpha release. This is no doubt thanks to prominent bloggers and tech elites that use the service including Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis and Kevin Rose.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Qik gets slick with public beta, new features — It's public beta time for Qik, the mobile live-video service that's captured the hearts of Web 2.0 bigwigs like Jason Calacanis and Kevin Rose. The service has been in private beta since late last year. — Along with its debut to the masses …
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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 …
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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.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
iLike launches ad platform, pushes play on Rhapsody deal — iLike, the social music service that rose to popularity with the launch of Facebook's developer platform last year, is getting bigger. The company announced that membership has surpassed 30 million users, and that it'll soon …
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Tech Is Boring Me — It's time for me to expand. I love tech, but it's not the only thing that interests me.
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Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
Eight years after Eve.com collapsed, a founder returns to the game — Friday, October 20th, 2000 was not a great day for Mariam Naficy. Eve.com, her high-flying beauty products company, faced the implosion of the dot-coms and an over-stretched budget and shut down, firing 164 people and liquidating its assets.
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Releases New Design — Facebook has been testing out the new profile design for the first five months but for the first time ever, they have released the new full site design (pictured below). You can access the new site by visiting www.new.facebook.com. — New Homepage
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Ubisoft DRM snafu reminds us what's wrong with PC gaming — The PC gaming industry likes to blame piracy for many of its ills, but it's clear that no one has found a cure-all for this particular disease. Various forms of DRM added to the retail versions of PC games are—at the very least …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites — OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup founded by Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other malware sites. — OpenDNS isn't exactly a sexy service.
