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+Facebook [unveiled a subtle makeover][1] and some new features this morning, including a new, more streamlined interface designed to make the site even easier to use. 
+
+Having been bitten by [tremendous negative user feedback][2] the last time the site added features, Facebook has been privately testing the new features for some time with over 200,000 users participating in beta tests.
+
+Perhaps the most immediately noticeable change in the design is the logo change -- the mysterious "Facebook guy" has been replace with a simplified logo.
+
+New features in addition to the redesign include changes to way users navigate profiles and keep tabs on friends. New "portal" pages let user's see a bird's eye view of their groups as well as groups they could join. The navigation changes also make it easier to view profiles with fewer clicks to get from one page to another. 
+
+The changes reflect Facebook's attempt to transition from a user base made up mainly of college students one that embraces that broader social networking spectrum.
+
+With MySpace having decided to [block Photobucket videos][3], Facebook's relaunch couldn't have come at a better time. Facebook currently boasts more than 19 million registered users, and founder Mark Zuckerberg tells Reuters that over half of those are not students.
+
+Traffic tracking firm comScore Networks recently reported a huge surge in Facebook site traffic, claiming that visits to Facebook have jumped 75 percent in the last six months.  By contrast MySpace's traffic grew just 26 percent in the same period.
+
+[1]: http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSKIM12533220070411?feedType=RSS&pageNumber=2 "Facebook unveils new site design"
+[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/09/facebook_faces_.html?entry_id=1551871 "Facebook Faces Backlash"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/myspace_is_bloc.html "MySpace Is Blocking Photobucket Videos"
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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Wed/msupdate.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Wed/msupdate.txt
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+<img border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/winvista_v_thumb_9.jpg" title="Winvista_v_thumb_9" alt="Winvista_v_thumb_9" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" />Earlier this month Microsoft issued an [emergency patch][3] for the animated cursor vulnerability in Windows Vista and XP. Yesterday saw the release of the [official monthly patches for Windows][1], which includes the cursor vulnerability fix as well as four other patches to fix critical flaws.
+
+For Vista users, the important patch is the cursor vulnerability. If you didn't update last week, Microsoft encourages you to do so now. Windows Update should find and install the patches, though you can always [download them][1] from Microsoft's security site.
+
+The April security release is the first such critical bugfix for Vista. Curiously, Microsoft never issued a monthly patch in March, despite having been informed of the cursor vulnerability back in December. 
+
+Some have speculated that the absence of a March update could have been a result of Microsoft's reluctance to admit Vista's vulnerabilities so close to its release. 
+
+Normally I'd dismiss such conspiracy-oriented musings, but given the way executives have been touting Vista as "secure out of the box," even while the company knew about the cursor exploit, well, it doesn't look good.
+
+Perhaps [Vienna][2] will fare better.
+
+[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_%22Vienna%22 "Microsoft Vienna"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/microsoft_to_pa.html "Microsoft To Patch Vista Vulnerability"
+[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-apr.mspx "Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for April 2007"
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+MySpace has decided to [block Photobucket videos][2] and remixes from the popular social networking site. The decision affects any video hosted through Photobucket whether it's in a user's profile, blog or comments section on MySpace.
+
+This isn't the first time MySpace has flipped the switch on Photobucket content. Back in January of this year Photobucket users were similarly blocked, though MySpace later claimed it was just trying to filter for security issues and restored the videos.
+
+Today's outage affects millions of videos, though it would seem that Photobucket hosted images and slideshows are not part of the ban. And videos from Photobucket competitors like YouTube have not been blocked.
+
+Photobucket has gone on the offensive this time, attempting to rally users and encouraging them to email MySpace. A posting on the Photobucket blog says:
+
+>We believe that by limiting your ability to personalize your pages with content from any source, MySpace is contradicting the very belief of personal and social media. MySpace became successful because of the creativity of you, its users, and because it offered a forum for self-expression. By severely restricting this freedom, MySpace is showing that it considers you as a commodity which it can treat as it sees fit.
+
+
+Although MySpace has yet to respond formally, today's move is becoming a familiar one for MySpace, which often responds to public pressure and restores certain features -- usually claiming bugs or security problems were behind the blackouts. And given the notoriously buggy, security-flawed nature of MySpace these explanations are generally believable.
+
+On the other hand MySpace has permanently blocked Revver and other video and widget sites in the past -- could they be doing to same to Photobucket?
+
+As Michael Arrington of Techcrunch [points out][2], "today's shutdown of Photobucket comes suspiciously close to news that Photobucket is up for sale." Could MySpace be trying to drive the price of Photobucket down?
+
+Perhaps the most interesting question is whether users will feel greater loyalty to MySpace or Photobucket? Will users jump the MySpace ship for Facebook and the like, or will they abandon Photobucket in favor or YouTube and other video hosts that haven't yet been blocked by MySpace?
+
+[1]: http://blog.photobucket.com/blog/2007/04/breaking_news_p.html "Breaking news: Posting from Photobucket to MySpace"
+
+[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/photobucket-videos-blocked-on-myspace/ "PhotoBucket Videos Blocked on MySpace"
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+We at Compiler do love us some truly useless nerd games/tools/programs, so I was very excited to run across the following video of [NetQos's][5] network traffic monitoring system, [Netcosm][4]. NetQoS has transformed their network monitoring interface into a Tron-style arcade game of epic proportions.
+
+Unfortunately the system is not available to the general public, for the time being it only runs on their servers but there's an [FAQ][3] that gives some more details about how it works.
+
+If you're interested in similar network traffic toys see our coverage of [Sound of Traffic][1] which converts network traffic packets into sounds, complete with virtual instruments and mixing tools.
+
+And check out the NetQoS video after the jump.
+
+[via [Techcrunch][2]]
+
+[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/sound_of_traffi.html "Compiler: Sound of Traffic"
+[2]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/watch-your-network-play-space-invaders/ "Watch Your Network Play Space Invaders"
+[3]: http://www.netperformance.com/content.aspx?id=2690&cb_name=1 "Frequently Asked Questions About Netcosm"
+[4]: http://www.netqos.com/network%2Dmonitoring/network-monitoring-labs.html "Netcosm"
+[5]: http://www.netqos.com/ "NetQoS"
+
+<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dtC6ZM0_m8U"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dtC6ZM0_m8U" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Wed/opera92.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/04.09.07/Wed/opera92.txt
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+<img border="0" alt="Opera2" title="Opera2" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/opera2.jpg" style="margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left; width: 81px; height: 81px;" />Opera recently [released version 9.2][1] of its desktop browser with a number of [new features][4] including "[Speed Dial][2]," a quick way to access sites you frequently visit, and a new set of developer tools for web designers and programmers. 
+
+Speed Dial takes its cue from the fact that most people have a few sites they visit quite regularly. To make it easier to get to the these sites quickly, Speed Dial adds visual bookmarks that show links to your nine sites. Each time you open a new blank tab, Speed Dial presents a thumbnail preview of your nine sites (screenshots after the jump). 
+
+Speed Dial is also accessible through keyboard shortcuts (ctrl 0-9 on Windows, Apple-key 0-9 on the Mac).
+
+But perhaps the most interesting way to access speed dial is by directly typing the number of the site in the address bar. For instance, if GMail is set at number one in the your speed dial just open a new tab, type "1" and you're there -- very nice of keyboard junkies.
+
+The other big feature in Opera 9.2 is the inclusion of [developer tools][3] for web programmers. The developer console features new tools including a DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector.  
+
+While both the developer tools and Speed Dial have been available for a while in beta versions of Opera, today's announcement adds features to the official release version of the browser.
+
+Other new features for version 9.2 include:
+
+*	Thumbnails on hover in the Windows panel
+*	Support for address bar searches -- a la Firefox.
+*	Support for animated GIF images in Opera themes.
+*	YouTube movies viewed in Fullscreen mode now work properly
+*	Start bar is now disabled by default
+
+
+With so many versions of Opera popping up (Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, Opera for the Wii, etc) it's nice to know the Opera developers haven't forgotten the desktop browser. And, as with previous releases, Opera 9.2 is one of the fastest browsers around -- especially on older machines where its relatively light memory footprint gives it the edge over RAM hogs like Firefox 2. 
+
+[1]: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/ "Opera 9.2 Features"
+[2]: http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/03/28b/ "What's on your Speed Dial?"
+[3]: http://dev.opera.com/tools/ "Opera Developer tools"
+[4]: http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/ "Opera Changelogs"
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+<img border="0" alt="Twitter" title="Twitter" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/16/twitter.png" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" />Got friends on [Twitter][3]? Know their phone number? That's all you need to take over their account and start posting messages in their name.
+
+A similar exploit affects Jott, another service revolving around phone-based updates. 
+
+The vulnerability stems from the fact that both services use caller ID to authenticate users, but unfortunately caller ID is notoriously easy to spoof. In fact there's a website designed to do just that -- [fakemytext.com][2]
+
+By spoofing your caller ID, an attacker could post Twitter messages in your name.
+
+Nitesh Dhanjani over at O'Reilly [details the hacks][1] and claims to have successfully exploited the vulnerabilities on both services.
+
+
+>I tested the Twitter vulnerability by doing the following:
+
+>1.	I registered at fakemytext.com, a SMS spoofing service.
+2.	Since the fakemytext.com service is based in the UK, I went through the Twitter FAQ and noted their UK based SMS number: +44-7781-488126.
+3.	I sent the following SMS via fakemytext.com to +44-7781-488126 with the "From" number set to my phone number: "Testing via http://www.fakemytext.com/ . This better not work!"
+4.	I checked my Twitter page, and sure enough, it was updated with the above SMS message. This means that anyone who knows a Twitter user's cell phone number can update that persons Twitter page.
+
+
+Dhanjani has contacted both services to alert them to the vulnerability and even proposes a solution -- "make the user register and remember a PIN that must precede every SMS." Of course as he points out that comes at the expense of usability.
+
+Regrettably this sort of hack affects not just Twitter and Jott, but any service that uses caller ID as a means of authentication. Dhanjani claims that many cell phone companies, credit card companies, and even banks rely on caller ID information to authenticate users.
+
+[2]: http://www.fakemytext.com/ "Fake My Text"
+[1]: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/twitter_and_jott_vulnerable_to.html "Twitter and Jott Vulnerable to SMS and Caller ID Spoofing"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/8_cool_twitter_.html "Cool Twitter Tools"
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