Venturebeat (Tuesday)

You’ve heard this mantra before: “Location, location, location.” There’s a new player in town called PlaceBook, and if it is to be believed, the proper mantra should be “privacy, privacy, privacy.”

PlaceBook—yes, the name brings to mind a certain, 500-million-user-str...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)

Here’s the latest action:

Twitter goes down — In the wake of rolling out its new Twitter Places geolocation feature, the micro-blogging site went down for several hours. Visitors were either greeted by the fail whale or profile pages blank of tweets.

Wikipedia gets mor...

News.com (Tuesday)
The microblogging service reports an upgrade went awry, and Twitter users could see problems for hours.

Engadget (Tuesday)
Amazon has finally stopped teasing and let the 2.5 Kindle firmware update loose for all and sundry. It had become available as a download for international users a few days ago, and as of today their American counterparts can partake in the same manual update. But only if they wish to be proactive. ...

Engadget (Tuesday)
Amazon has finally stopped teasing and let the 2.5 Kindle firmware update loose for all and sundry. It had become available as a download for international users a few days ago, and as of today their American counterparts can partake in the same manual update. But only if they wish to be proactive. ...

GigaOm (Tuesday)
Twitter's fail whale is back in action, which means the must have Internet service for chattering classes is down for the count. A company spokesperson said that the service has suffered an outage and won't be back before 3 am PST.