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12:25 PM ET, April 20, 2008

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MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
If Twitter Breaks in the Woods and No One Can Tweet About It, Is It Really Broken?  —  I noticed a few people thinking the same thing as me today: is everyone taking a break from Twitter?  People do get burnt out from the web after all and it was a pretty nice weekend day in a lot of cities.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
When Monetizing ISP Traffic Goes Horribly Wrong  —  In seeking to further monetize Web site traffic on their networks, a number of major Internet service providers may be inadvertently exposing their customers to a greater risk of online attack from identity thieves, according to research released today.
Discussion: DSLreports, InfoWorld, toorcon and WebGuild
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
ISP typo pimping exposes users to fraudulent web pages  —  Find out how to eradicate 99.7% of spam  —  ToorCon Comcast, Verizon and at least 70 other internet service providers are putting their customers at serious risk in their quest to make money from mistyped web addresses, security researcher Dan Kaminsky says.
Discussion: Security to the Core
MacNN:
Will Apple open a store in Second Life?  —  On April 17, 2008, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple's patent application titled Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere .  Apple's patent generally relates to improving the experiences that online-shoppers may have at an online Apple Store, sometime in the future.
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Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Apple Store To Go Virtual?  That's the theory of MacNN, at least, citing an Apple patent application published on the US government site last Thursday, somewhat obscurely entitled “Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere”.  —  The patent application's stated goal is to create an online shopping experience …
Discussion: Geek News Central and Digg
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Packed House At Y Combinator Startup School  —  Today marked the fourth year of Y Combinator's startup school, and judging by the overflowing auditorium that persisted throughout the event, it was a runaway success.  A crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanford's …
Discussion: Feedonomics
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John C Abell / Epicenter:
World Domination, or At Least a Couple of Bucks
Discussion: Gabor's Blog
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
ReadWriteWeb Turns 5  —  On 20 April, 2003, ReadWriteWeb was born.  My first post here was appropriately entitled The Read/Write Web and it began: “The World Wide Web in 2003 is beginning to fulfil the hopes that Tim Berners-Lee had for it over 10 years ago when he created it.”
GigaOM:
The Social Map Is All About Me  —  Written by Mark Sigal, a digital media and Internet platform entrepreneur who has done eight startups, four of them as a co-founder.  —  Call me a cynic, but there has to be more to the Web 2.0 story than accessorizing my Facebook page with one-dimensional pseudo applications.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Struggling to Evade the E-Mail Tsunami  —  E-MAIL has become the bane of some people's professional lives.  Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering new Internet companies, last month stared balefully at his inbox, with 2,433 unread e-mail messages, not counting 721 messages awaiting his attention in Facebook.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Search for Mapped Web Pages in Google Maps  —  Google Maps added the map view available at Google Experimental Search.  Google extracts the most important locations from web pages and lets you see the search results on a map.  To restrict your search to web pages, you need to click on …
Discussion: Google Maps Mania
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true  —  Awhile back I heard a rumour that Yahoo! had a “Gears-like” project that was cancelled.  I thought this was a shame, as having Yahoo! pushing the browser would be a great thing, and I wished that we could all join forces and push together.
Discussion: Mashable!, Profy.Com and TechCrunch
 
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ZDNet:
AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010
Discussion: Switched, TechSpot and Gawker
Robert Vamosi / Defense in Depth:
Researcher: Wii and iPhone browsers could allow phishing
eMarketer:
Can User-Generated Content Generate Revenue?
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
MySpace viral channels: notifications coming April 30, invitations coming late May
Discussion: Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ning Worth Half A Billion Dollars
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Ryan McIntire / The Greener Grass:
Papyrus  —  With the growing popularity and widespread use …
CNN:
CNN Web site targeted
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers
Bloomberg:
Managers Among 4,650 Losing AT&T Jobs
Discussion: WebGuild and VoIP Watch
 

 
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