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11:00 PM ET, July 19, 2009

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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack  —  The Twitter document leak fiasco started with a simple story that personal accounts of Twitter employees were hacked.  Twitter CEO Evan Williams commented on that story, saying that Twitter itself was mostly unaffected.
James Altucher / Wall Street Journal:
The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment)  —  I can live all day inside the Internet.  I can talk to my friends, listen to music, watch TV, trade stocks, play games, do work - all on the Internet.  From 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. every day I can spend on the Internet and it would be a day well spent.
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Fred / A VC:
The Internet Is Alive And Well (As An Investment)  —  James Altucher penned a column in today's WSJ titled The Internet Is Dead (As An Investment).  James is a fund manager and well read columnist on investing and he is entitled to his opinion.  He puts his money where his mouth is.
Jd Rucker / Social News Watch:
Did Digg Just “Bait & Switch” Twitter Users?  —  UPDATE: Let Digg know how you feel through Twitter.  Send an @digg via @socialnews reply and your tweets will be posted here as well.  —  Either there's an error happening with Diggbar or Digg just made a big mistake.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Is Twitter Sending You 500% To 1600% More Traffic Than You Might Think?  —  Earlier I posted that Google Analytics and other JavaScript-based tracking tools might be undercounting visits from Twitter.  I've done some more digging, which supports the case.  In my test, Twitter seems …
Discussion: Webmetricsguru, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure  —  When Om Malik of GigaOM said he was breaking up with his iPhone 5 months ago because of the failures of AT&T, I must admit, I thought he was overreacting.  I was wrong.  —  Since I switched to AT&T from Verizon just over 2 years ago to get the iPhone …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Report: ‘Crippled’ iPhone coming to China in September  —  China Unicom and Apple (AAPL) have reportedly signed an agreement to launch a specially-built version of the iPhone in China, perhaps as early as September.  —  The report, published Friday by China Business Network, credits Hon Hai …
Discussion: iPhonAsia.com
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Software Engineering: Dead?  —  I was utterly floored when I read this new IEEE article by Tom DeMarco (pdf).  See if you can tell why. … If your head just exploded, don't be alarmed.  Mine did too.  To somewhat reduce the migraine headache you might now be experiencing from reading the above summary …
Discussion: ClipperHouse
Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Music Industry Lures ‘Casual’ Pirates to Legal Sites  —  PARIS — Record company executives say there are three kinds of music fans.  There are those who buy music, and those who get a kick out of never paying for it.  And then there are those whom Rob Wells at Universal Music Group calls …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Clever attack exploits fully-patched Linux kernel  —  ‘NULL pointer’ bug plagues even super max versions  —  Free whitepaper - The starter PKI program  —  A recently published attack exploiting newer versions of the Linux kernel is getting plenty of notice because it works …
Discussion: digg.com
Steve Ragan / The Tech Herald Security News:
New vulnerability discovered for Firefox 3.5.1  —  This ‘eEye’ is utterly ignorant.  —  NoScript features the first and best client side anti-XSS protection, therefore it's practically impossible running JavaScript code ‘from an untrusted website without the consent of the user’.
Discussion: Download Squad
Google Watch:
Google Looking for Federal Antitrust Lawyer as Privacy Counsel  —  Is Google preparing to mount a defense against federal antitrust regulators?  —  The search engine giant, the frequent target of privacy advocates concerned that it collects too much data on consumers with its ad and Web services …
Discussion: eWeek
 
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