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2:35 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.
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Twitter hiccups through a semi-outage  —  The Twitter community may not be paying much heed to your posts this weekend, but it's not your fault.  —  The company behind the messaging service and Web 2.0 darling acknowledged late Saturday that some back-end changes had been failing to show tweets from a number of people.
Discussion: Get Satisfaction and Mashable!
Richard Swinburne / bit-tech.net:
Inside the Eee PC 900  —  I know, we've probably been all Eee'd out for a few months; well, at least until Atom gets here.  But there was this niggling itch to break stuff, and it was sitting there, and this is bit-tech after all...  Where can we find that extra 16GB of SSD storage?
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.
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
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 …
Discussion: Geek News Central and Digg
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: Mashable! and Google Maps Mania
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Join The Web Content Conservation Movement  —  The other day Erick Schonfeld wrote a post about how he's feeling even more overwhelmed by new web content steams like Twitter and FriendFeed, and how he's desperately in need of a better filter.  I certainly agree with Erick's clarion call …
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.”
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft admits it sent Office nag to all WSUS servers  —  Admins, furious, say their Office installs have been falsely fingered as fake  —  Computerworld) System administrators have ripped Microsoft Corp. for pushing a trial anti-piracy program meant for limited distribution …
Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog:
Social Networking Advertising - It Will Be Even Harder than we Think  —  I've had a few experiences in the past few weeks that continue to bolster my belief that monetizing social networks and communities will continue to be a lot harder than people think.  —  1. I posted a question on Twitter …
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.
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
 
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
MySpace viral channels: notifications coming April 30, invitations coming late May
Discussion: Mashable!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
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Discussion: CNET News.com
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true
Discussion: Mashable!, Profy.Com and TechCrunch
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