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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Releases New Design — Facebook has been testing out the new profile design for the past 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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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:Facebook Redesign Launches - Tour & First Impressions of New Home Page
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:Facebook gets a facelift to help users share
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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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services — Amazon's S3 cloud storage service went offline this morning for an extended period of time — the second big outage at the service this year. In February, Amazon suffered a major outage that knocked many of its customers offline.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much?
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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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Bill Carter / New York Times:
Fallon Will Start ‘Late Night’ on the Web — LOS ANGELES — With a new round of shake-ups in late-night television set to begin next year, Lorne Michaels has decided to try to get a jump on things by starting NBC's next edition of “Late Night,” with its new host Jimmy Fallon, as a nightly entry on the Internet.
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.
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Reuters:
Yahoo activist calls for board battle compromise — SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A dissident shareholder will on Monday call on Yahoo Inc to compromise and accept a mixed board of directors drawn from among company nominees and a rival slate backed by Carl Icahn.
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:
To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3G Always Alerts When Taking Photos — An upskirt warning poster in a subway station outside Tokyo. Photo by Jeff Epp. — The iPhone 3G in Japan has a special feature unique to that country: The camera always makes a conspicuous “shutter” …
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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.
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.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: In Egypt, a Thirst for Technology and Progress — ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — EGYPT is not a land unused to exaggeration, so take it with a grain of salt, or many grains of sand, when the young volunteers say that every one of the 60 or 70 people helping to put on Wikipedia's annual convention here …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Smaller PCs Cause Worry for Industry — SAN FRANCISCO — The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news.
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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David Carr / New York Times:
Hey, Friend, Do I Know You? — Not that long ago, I needed some advice on the book business and thought to ask my friend Buzz Bissinger, the author of “Friday Night Lights” and “A Prayer for the City.” The only sticking point was, we'd never met. — Although he used to be a reporter, we are not what I would call peers.
