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Gmail Blog:
We feel your pain, and we're sorry — Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this afternoon, and we're really sorry. The issue was caused by a temporary outage in our contacts system that was preventing Gmail from loading properly. Everything should be back to normal by the time you read this.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Systemwide GMail Outage — Update: As of 3:45 PM PST it looks like Gmail is back up, at least for some users. — Update 2: Google's comment on the outage: … Update 3: Google issues a straightforward apology. — Gmail is having a systemwide outage affecting multiple countries …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Gmail is down, Twitter sizzling with the news
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter limiting followers to 2000 — Just read in various places that people are getting messages from Twitter saying that there's a limit of 2000 followers per account. — Lots to say about this of course! — 1. My first take: Probably a good idea. — 2. Is this a problem for people?
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Brent Csutoras:
TWITTER LIMITS FOLLOWING TO 2,000 — Twitter has always been looking for better ways to combat spammers and it appears they have recently added a new measure to combat one aspect of gaming. — User can now only add up to 2,000 followers before being limited and receiving this error message.
David Risley:
Twitter Limits to 2000 Followers. Could They Charge To Lift The Limit? — In my last post, I stated in passing that Twitter had limited accounts to following 2,000 people unless you already had more than 2,000 people you follow. Apparently, I broke this news to some - unwittingly.
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Georgia accuses Russia of coordinated cyberattack — The Georgian embassy in the U.K. has accused forces within Russia of launching a coordinated cyberattack against Georgian Web sites, to coincide with military operations in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
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Profy, Inquirer, Bits, Associated Press, VentureBeat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs …, Mashable!, Telegraph and CircleID
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Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
MOG, platform for music blogs, launches vertical ad network — Today, MOG, a blogging platform and content aggregator for music-oriented blogs, is launching the MOG Music Network, a vertical ad network that targets music-oriented sites and blogs. The company has also added legendary producer Rick Rubin to its board.
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Michelle Thatcher / Crave:
Lenovo set to announce ThinkPad W700 — Set to debut on Tuesday at the Siggraph conference in Los Angeles, Lenovo's new ThinkPad W700 mobile workstation is full of firsts. The 17-inch laptop is the first time ThinkPad has ventured into desktop replacement territory, and its larger …
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Michelle Quinn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Trying to watch the Olympics on TV and the Web — How is your Olympics-watching experience going? — You may have caught some of the Olympic Games over the weekend, most likely in front of your television set and not online. NBC Universal, which owns the U.S. broadcast rights …
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Coop's Corner, Industry Standard, Beet.TV, GeekBrief.TV, MarketingShift, Podcasting News and The Universal Desktop
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Users Fight Back Against the New Facebook — Facebook users are typically not receptive to change. When Facebook unleashed the News Feed a couple years ago, the Facebook user base fought back, creating groups to remove the news feed and challenging Facebook on the lack of privacy under the new system.
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Steve Weis / Google Online Security Blog:
Keyczar: Safe and Simple Cryptography — Cryptography is notoriously hard to get right and if improperly used, can create serious security holes. Common mistakes include using the wrong cipher modes or obsolete algorithms, composing primitives in an unsafe manner, hard-coding keys in source code …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
AMD to Nvidia: Two chips are better than one — Advanced Micro Devices announced on Monday its most powerful graphics technology to date, going after Nvidia in the rarified—and closely watched—enthusiast game segment. — The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics board houses two 4870 graphics processing units …
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PC World, VentureBeat, ExtremeTech, TG Daily, Electronista, New York Times, Engadget and Gizmodo
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YuMe Replaces CEO — YuMe, the video advertising network that was recently involved in controversy with comScore over just how big it is, has brought in a new CEO, according to an email from a company spokesperson. Michael Mathieu, who previously ran the Internet business for Freedom Communication …
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Two weeks after Apple calls MobileMe stable, mail goes down — “MobileMe members may be unable to access MobileMe Mail. Service will be restored ASAP. We apologize for any inconvenience.” — If by “may” Apple means “definitely,” and by “ASAP” it means “nearly three hours and counting,” then I think we're all on the same page.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DEMO v. TechCrunch50 Takes A Nasty Turn With Charges Of Plagiarism — We are heads down preparing for the upcoming TechCrunch50 Conference in San Francisco, where we'll feature fifty newly launched startups and products to an audience of over 1,500 investors, press, entrepreneurs and others who are passionate about startups.
David Robinson / Freedom to Tinker:
Is the New York Times a Confused Company? — Over lunch I did something old-fashioned—I picked up and read a print copy of the New York Times. I was startled to find, on the front of the business section, a large, colorfully decorated feature headlined “Is Google a Media Company?”
