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12:30 AM ET, July 21, 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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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much?
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com
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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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.
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 / CNET News.com:
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 …
Discussion: Beet.TV
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 …
Discussion: FierceVoIP and CrunchGear
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:   Social Engineering 101: Mitnick and other hackers show how it's done
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.
Discussion: Social Media
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.  Earlier that week, her high-flying beauty products company, Eve.com, was supposed to have its IPO.  Instead, facing the implosion of the dot-coms …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Mashable!
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
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 …
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
Discussion: Inside Facebook
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 …
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.
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
 
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Adam Stevenson / Ars Technica:
New “telescopic pixel” displays could outperform LCD, plasma
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Ahh, Remember Your First Cellphone?
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Android losing its mojo fast
Discussion: Digg
KathrynV / DSLreports:
Rogers Uses Deep Packet Inspection for DNS Redirection …
Greg Jarboe / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Is YouTube about to pass Yahoo in expanded searches?
David Risley:
Tech Blogging - Too Crowded? Too Hateful? No, Just Changing.
Discussion: CNET News.com and 1938 Media
Yuvi / The StatBot:
Statbot comes back from the Dead - Thomas Hawk's Camera usage stats
 Earlier Items: 
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
StudiVZ Won't Comment On Facebook Lawsuit, But Will Talk Smack In General
Discussion: All Facebook and Mashable!
Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
iPhone Reconciliation  —  It's amusing to see a bunch of people …
Discussion: O'Reilly Radar
George Raine / San Francisco Chronicle:
More businesses considering ‘wisdom of crowds’
Times of London:
Gordon Brown aide a victim of honeytrap operation by Chinese agents
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
The Internet—a private eye's best friend
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Windows 95 Lead Architect Is a Mac Convert, Launches First iPhone App
 

 
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