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Analyst: Now that Google has Jaiku, is Yahoo after Twitter?

Now that Google has Jaiku, is Yahoo! after Twitter? Caroline McCarthy at CNet speculates so.

Facebook is down

Facebook is down

Facebook is down. What am I going to do now?

*shakes*

Exploits of a Mom

xkcd kicks ass.

Google acquires Jaiku

Woke up today to this email:

"Wonderful Jaiku users,

Exciting news, Jaiku is joining Google!

While its too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together.

In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now. But fear not! All our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will continue to be able to invite your friends to Jaiku.
We have put together a quick QA about the acquisition at http://jaiku.com/help/google

Jyri Engestrom and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders"

Jaiku is an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones. Google is there to "organise the world's information" - now they'll be keeping a closer eye on our day to day activities. Twitter are probably not too happy it wasn't them being acquired. I wonder what the future looks like for them?

Adobe PDF Vulnerability

Don't open untrusted PDF files until you've upgraded Adobe Reader to a newer version than 8.1. Oh wait, you can't, 8.1 is the latest version.

*gulp*

UK police can now force you to reveal decryption keys

"Users of encryption technology can no longer refuse to reveal keys to UK authorities after amendments to the powers of the state to intercept communications took effect on Monday Oct 1 2007."

TrueCrypt drives setup with plausible deniability is your only salvation.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Walkthrough

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Walkthrough: One for my missus, who is currently obsessed. :)