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+Both Facebook and Netvibes launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites yesterday. Netvibes, the customizable homepage widget site, offers a slightly more spare version for the iPhone with slimmed-down text-only widgets to speed load times on the EDGE network. 
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+The Netvibes iPhone site is still in beta, but point your iPhone to [m.nv1.netvibes.com][1] and check out the RSS reader which is one of the fastest we've used on the iPhone.
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+The [Facebook iPhone][2] site is also very well done and indeed it's possibly the best iPhone site we've seen -- in many ways its better than the main Facebook site.
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+Four tabs across the top of the screen give one click access to your main page, your profile, friends and e-mail. A series of buttons below each tab provide most of the options for each section. The only slightly disorienting aspect of the navigation is that clicking a tab tiggers the familiar sideways navigation -- panels slide to the left. Typically tabs don't relate to horizontal responses, but perhaps that's too nit-picky for an iPhone UI.
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+Whatever the case, the interface is fast (the EDGE network has been having issues this morning so I only tested it on wifi) and the overall experience is much better than trying to use the main site on the iPhone's diminutive screen.
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+For a detailed look at the various Facebook screens check out the [extensive photo tour][3] that Chris Messina put up on Flickr (which is where the above screenshot comes from).
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+[1]: http://m.nv1.netvibes.com/
+[2]: http://iphone.facebook.com/
+[3]: http://flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/sets/72157601448859006/
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+The world of Instant Messaging is a mess. Countless protocols, friends on different networks and other complications make IM a potential hassle. Which is why we've always recommended the multi-protocol, all-in-one IM apps, [Adium][1] for Mac and [Pidgin][2] for Windows.
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+But desktop apps aren't for everyone, which is why I thought I'd point out a great little tutorial over on Lifehacker that walks through the steps necessary to [set up the Google Talk widget in GMail as a multi-protocol messaging client][3].
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+If you're thinking that sounds too go to be true, you're half right. It does work, though some people have reported problems un-installing the hack, but the main problem is that you'll need to rely on a third party Jabber client to do some forwarding for you. That means your IMs will be visible to a third party. Depending on your paranoia levels and the nature of your chats, that may be a problem.
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+However, if that doesn't bother you (and if you're already sending unencrypted e-mail through GMail I can't see why it would) setting up GTalk to handle other IM services is surprisingly simple.
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+You'll need to grab cross platform Jabber client Psi, though you only need to use it once. You'll also need to set up a Jabber transport server, but otherwise the process is pretty straightforward. See Lifehacker for the full details.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/adium-11-featur.html
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/pidgin_formerly.html
+[3]: http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/chat-with-aim-msn-yahoo-and-other-contacts-over-google-talk-289097.php
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+Facebook, Netvibes and Meebo all launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites this week and all three of them are very nice, but wasn't one of the points of the iPhone that it offered "a real web browser?" So why all the iPhone optimized sites? And why iPhone, why not just "mobile optimized?"
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+The iPhone is Internet Explorer 4 all over again. 
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+Inflammatory I know, but I'm not the first person to suggest at much. Last month Scott McNulty over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/18/the-strange-case-of-made-for-iphone-websites/">floated the same idea</a> and commenters here on Compiler have said as much as well.
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+At the time I would have argued that most the iPhone sites were actually "applications" given that websites are essentially the only SDK software developers have for the iPhone (if you'd like to see why web-apps as iPhone apps are less then ideal, have a look at <a href="http://furbo.org/2007/08/15/benchmarking-in-your-pants/">these benchmarks</a>). 
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+But none of the sites announced this week are "applications" exactly. They offer the same content as the normal sites, just optimized for the iPhone.
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+And the more I've been thinking about that argument the more I realize that that's exactly how Microsoft spun the proprietary, non-standard HTML features in IE 4.
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+In suggesting that developers use the web to build iPhone applications, what Apple has done (perhaps inadvertently, perhaps not) is force the creation of a subset of the mobile web that only works with the iPhone's unique features -- namely the touch-screen interface.
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+So how about the argument that the EDGE network requires a slimmed down site? Okay, true EDGE lags, but all mobile sites are optimized for speed, even 3G networks aren't that spectacularly fast.
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+Ironically, some of the best performing, easy-to-use sites on a mobile device are the very 1998-looking sites that just display content in a long list. But obviously desktop users don't want the web to revert to 1998, which is why designers find themselves caught in the middle and forced to design two separate sites -- one mobile, one normal. 
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+Which was working until the iPhone came along and created a 3rd space -- iPhone-optimized sites. 
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+The iPhone has created a division in the mobile-optimized web which is eerily similar to the days of IE 4 when many sites simply didn't work in Netscape. 
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+Imagine for a minute if Microsoft had put out a Zune phone and encouraged developers to subdivide the mobile web into those sites that worked with the Zune phone, and then everything else. I can almost hear the deafening roar of protest from the blogosphere... But for some reason designers aren't decrying Apple's device-specific optimization the way the once decried browser specific optimization.
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+In essence Apple has forced a third tier of websites on the world by failing to provide developers with an alternative means of creating applications on the iPhone.
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+But while that may explain the explosion of iPhone-only sites it doesn't justify them.
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+Perhaps this is merely the mobile web stumbling through the same painful growth steps that the world wide web once went through (have we learned nothing?), the difference is this time the "cool" company is leading the way and no one is complaining. 
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+Meebo the free, web-based chat system has rolled out an [iPhone app][2], bringing multi-protocol chat to the iPhone -- finally. We've looked at a few other iPhone chat clients in the past, but even the best of them, [FlickIM][1], only supports the AIM network, whereas Meebo offers AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Jabber and Google Talk.
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+Meebo's iPhone app is well thought out and includes niceties like browser auto-detection. Just point your iPhone to Meebo.com and you'll be automatically rerouted to the mobile, iPhone-optimized URL. As iPhone users know, there's nothing more annoying than having to type in a long URL.
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+Once you login (and you don't need a Meebo account to use the site, just login as you normally would on whatever network you prefer), you'll be dropped into your contacts list. Select a contact and start a chat just as you would in a normal IM app. Buddies you're actively chatting with will appear at the top of the list so you get a quick preview from the buddy list.
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+Once you're logged in and chatting I recommend switching to the horizontal interface since it gives you the iPhone's much easier to use horizontal keyboard. I found that the contacts list works best in vertical mode, though both parts of Meebo will work in either orientation. 
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+The chat interface for Meebo is pretty minimalist and not nearly as nice looking at FlickIM's slick UI, but it does the job. Meebo has minimized the graphics which is nice for those times you're stuck on the EDGE network.
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+The big catch, which is not Meebo's fault, but the iPhone's, is that if you get a call or a text message or otherwise close the browser, you're auto logged out of Meebo. This is, as I understand it, a security feature of the iPhone and certainly there are times when it's handy (for instance when you're done with a chat, just hit the home button and you're logged out), but other times it's a pain.
+Would a native IM app for the iPhone be better? Of course, but since Apple doesn't show any signs of providing such functionality, for now Meebo is your best bet.
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+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/flickim-launche.html
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+[2]: http://blog.meebo.com/?p=346
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+Six Apart's latest release, Movable Type 4, is out of beta and into the wild. [Movable Type 4][2] features a completely redesigned admin interface and some 50 new features. For full details on [what's new in MT4][3] check out our [earlier coverage of the beta][4].
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+Perhaps the most notable feature of MT4 which we didn't discuss in our earlier review is the move to a component-based architecture where paid extensions and additional functionality run on top of the same code base. In other words the enterprise version of MT4 can be laid on top of an existing MT4 installation. 
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+The more modular approach should make it easier to upgrade and migrate your installation should you decide that the features merit the price.
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+To go along with the release of MT4 there's an entirely new plug-in directory available so even if 50 new features doesn't satiate your blogging desires you can always drop in the latest and greatest plugins from the MT community or developers.
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+Another notable element of MT4 is the much touted [open-source version][1], which will offer most of MT4 under the GPL, but you'll have to wit for that. The open source version is slated for release later this quarter.
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+[1]: http://www.movabletype.org/opensource/
+[2]: http://www.movabletype.com/
+[3]: http://www.movabletype.org/whatsnew.html
+[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/06/movable_type_40.html
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+Yesterday was Microsoft's monthly "Patch Tuesday" and the company delivered a slew of updates, including a kernel update to address a particularly nasty issue that allowed malicious code to be injected into the kernel via unsigned drivers.
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+The [kernel exploit][1] affects all 64 bit versions of Windows, and, while Microsoft is trying to downplay it, comes in response to hacking tools freely available on the web. Purple Pill as one tool was known, could be used to load unsigned drivers into the Windows kernel thanks to a flaw in one of Vista's video drivers. Purple Pill's maker pulled the software after realizing no patch was available.
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+Other fixes in this month's batch of patches include six listed as critical. Of the six only one is Vista specific, which plugs an exploit in Windows Gadgets which could allow remote code execution.
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+The rest of the critical patches apply to nearly all Windows systems and fix flaws in Windows Media Player, Microsoft Excel, XML Core Services and more.
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+You can grab the security patches for Windows via Microsoft Update or directly from the [downloads site][2].
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+[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932596.mspx
+[2]: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-aug.mspx
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+Threat Level is running a poll where you can track and vote on the most shameful and/or disturbing Wikipedia edits found with Virgil Griffith's new Wikipedia search tool. For those that missed the story, Griffith created a [tool that unmasks the anonymous edits made to Wikipedia][4] pages. 
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+The long and short of it is that corporations, celebrities and other egomaniacs concerned with negative Wikipedia entries can no longer hide behind the anonymous edits. Here's an excerpt from [John Borland's full story on Wired News][2]. 
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+>Some of this appears to be transparently self-interested, either adding positive, press release-like material to entries, or deleting whole swaths of critical material.
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+>Voting-machine company Diebold provides a good example of the latter, with someone at the company's IP address apparently deleting long paragraphs detailing the security industry's concerns over the integrity of their voting machines, and information about the company's CEO's fund-raising for President Bush. 
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+Give Griffith's tools a try and then head on over to [Threat Level][3] and submit and vote for your favorite abusers. So far Diebold continues to lead, but Scientology, Disney and even the NSA are climbing up the list. 
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+Personal fav: It would appear that Fox News has [edited Al Franken's entry][1] with all the zealot of an angry sixth grader. We all know Fox News is as low as it gets, but who knew they went this low? For shame.
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+[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Al_Franken&diff=prev&oldid=25221039
+[2]: http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/08/wiki_tracker
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/wikiwatch/
+[4]: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
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