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5:30 PM ET, August 3, 2007

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Sunir / Fresh Thinking:
Amazon Flexible Payment Service  —  Introducing Amazon Flexible Payment Service  —  A couple months ago the good folks at Amazon invited FreshBooks to be among their first few 3rd party integrators with Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS), the next leg in their amazing line up of web services.
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Ka-Ching!  —  Ever since the first Amazon Web Service was released in mid-2002, we have encouraged developers to use them to create new types of businesses.  —  This encouragement has taken many forms over the years.  Let's revisit some of the more interesting moments in the last 5 years of AWS history...
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon's Flexible Payments Service to compete with Google Checkout, PayPal
Discussion: PC World
Fred / A VC:
The Open Social Network  —  We've got social networks with lots of users, like MySpace, Beebo, Facebook, etc, and we've got open social networks like Marc Canter's People Aggregator and Marc Andreessen's Ning.  But we really don't yet have an open social network with a lot of users.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Lock-in and the web, day 2  —  Every day I dish up a number of topics …
Discussion: Valleywag
BBC:
Warning of webmail wi-fi hijack  —  Using public wi-fi hotspots has got much riskier as security experts unveil tools that nab login data over the air.  —  Demonstrated at the Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, the tools make it far easier to steal account details, said Robert Graham of Errata Security.
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News and Compiler
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Wendy M. Grossman / The Register:
Fun with passports and paperclips
Discussion: CNET News.com
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Billboard Expands Hot 100 Chart To Include Streaming Media Data  —  Billboard is augmenting its ranking of digital music sales for its Hot 100 chart formula by including weekly streamed and on-demand music data from Yahoo and AOL Music.  The magazine began factoring in the sale of digital tracks …
Discussion: WebProNews and Contentinople
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eMediaWire:   Billboard Revamps Hot 100 Chart With Online Music Data From AOL Music and Yahoo!
Joe McDonald / Associated Press:
Lenovo targets rural China with basic PC  —  BEIJING - Lenovo Group Ltd. said Friday it will sell a basic personal computer aimed at China's vast but poor rural market and priced as low as $199.  —  Lenovo's announcement follows rival Dell Inc.'s bid to boost its presence in China's booming market …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:   Lenovo aims for 'rural market,' announces $199 desktop for China
BBC:
Firms withdraw BNP Facebook ads  —  Six major firms have withdrawn advertisements from the networking website Facebook, after they appeared on a British National Party page.  —  First Direct, Vodafone, Virgin Media, the AA, Halifax and the Prudential have all withdrawn ads.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Twitter Is Now An Extension Of My Blogging
Discussion: Feedonomics
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo!'s bet on Hadoop  —  One of the most important announcements at Oscon last week was Yahoo!'s commitment to support Hadoop.  We've been writing about Hadoop on radar for a while, so it's probably not news to you that we think Hadoop is important.  —  Yahoo's involvement …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Follow-up: Federated Media's Network Show - WebbAlert and Disclosure  —  Yesterday, I discussed the potential issues of disclosure with FM's new TV show, "Webb Alert."  The feedback I have received (mostly on Skype and in email) agrees with me that there is something wrong here.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Pirate Bay's 'brokep' details new SuprNova.org  —  Partying with "cute blondes," and maintaining one of the world's most influential underground Web sites keeps The Pirate Bay Team busy, according to cofounder Peter Sunde.  But in their spare time, the group has labored to bring back SuprNova.org,
Discussion: Inquirer and The Register
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
True Story: Man Goes Through Vasectomy to Get iPhone  —  A Gizmodo reader underwent a vasectomy to get an Apple iPhone, following his wife's orders after a road trip with his kids to Boise, Idaho.  But fear not, dear readers-with-your-manly-parts-still- intact, because his amazing tale …
Discussion: PalmAddicts, Forever Geek and digg
Ryan Block / Engadget:
More details revealed on Dell's Latitude XT tablet  —  Strange how quiet Dell's been about that Latitude XT of theirs — outside the buzzsaw experiment.  Well fine, if Dell don't want to talk about it, we'll talk about it for 'em.  In addition to that photo above, here's some more dirt …
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com and Forever Geek
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft resolves lawsuit over Xbox Fall Update  —  Microsoft has reached a resolution in one Xbox 360 lawsuit.  The latest court filing in the case of Kevin Ray v. Microsoft Corp. (PDF, 3 pages) indicates that the two sides have agreed to dismiss the case.
Discussion: Engadget and WinBeta
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Amp'd Mobile purchased by United Systems Access  —  United Systems Access will purchase bankrupt mobile entertainment company Amp'd Mobile, letting more than 100,000 customers keep their service if they make the jump to the Main-based company.  —  The Los Angeles Times has the story here.
Discussion: dslreports.com
Wil Harris / Inquirer:
Tech rags forced to face unpalatable facts  —  Analysis Online is the way, unless it isn't  —  WHAT TO make of the recent wave of high-profile defections, replacements and general crashes over in the SF tech press?  Some might suggest it's the death of print.  Some suggest it's the death of online.
Lachlan Hardy / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Mashup Editor  —  I just got in to the shiny new beta for the Google Mashup Editor and I wanted to share my thoughts on it with you.  Like Yahoo! Pipes before it (our review here), the Google Mashup Editor provides a simple interface that enables developers to make basic web applications and mashups quickly.
Discussion: Ajaxian
 
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Dharmesh Shah / WebProNews:
The Loss of Reddit
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Average PC is a smorgasboard for a new MP3-eating trojan
Discussion: Contentinople and PC World
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Power outage halts Samsung's flash memory production, shortages expected
Discussion: CNET News.com
Austin Modine / The Register:
Red Hat delays Global Desktop
Discussion: Reuters
Andrew Lim / Crave: The gadget blog:
O2 Cocoon: The alarm clock phone
Discussion: zedgeHeadz
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
PlayStation 3 complications caused GTA IV delay - analyst
Discussion: Kotaku, Xbox 360 Fanboy and digg
Michael Ferguson / Search Engine Land:
Ask's Michael Ferguson: Optimize For Content Rich SERPs
Discussion: ResourceShelf
phx.corporate-ir.net:
The Washington Post Company Reports Second Quarter Earnings
 Earlier Items: 
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
IBM goes to Princeton Softech
Discussion: eWEEK.com and Inquirer
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Game Over  —  The question we were left with two weeks ago was …
Wallstrip:
8-3-07 Wallstrip Chat: Toni Schneider
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC Commissioner: US playing "Russian roulette with broadband and Internet"
Discussion: digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Vonage Beta Testing New Ambit VOIP Gateway
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Second Life (finally) gets a direct competitor: Multiverse
Reuters:
Microsoft slashes Vista price in China
BBC:
Google sidesteps mobile reports