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• Congressman Tim Ryan’s take from the US House floor via Twitter http://twitter.com/timryan #
• More on Congressman Tim Ryan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ryan #
• Working on installation and developer guides for a major announcement…more RSN! #

• Amazon S3 outage postmortem info http://tinyurl.com/6p8yfj #
• Google reports there are now more than 1 trillion unique URLs on Web http://tinyurl.com/5blvgm #
• Pete’s latest, on text mining and why Google’s a 1990s technology http://tinyurl.com/6c3b9y #
• Nokia vs Apple http://tinyurl.com/54qxx7 #
• Story of the Twitter Fail Whale http://tinyurl.com/5cebzm #

• New Google updates for iPhone http://tinyurl.com/5bj32a #
• S3 outage aftermath http://tinyurl.com/5t4bl4 #

• Many wondrous Google Earth interfaces http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/07/best_google_earth_interface_videos.html #

• “The right to self defence is the first law of nature.” -Justice Antonin Scalia, in the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller #
• The resurrection of common sense http://www.southidahopress.com/articles/2008/07/15/editorials/crapo.txt #
• Evernote for iPhone launched last week http://tinyurl.com/6lxelk and updated today http://tinyurl.com/6fvblu #

I received the following from Nokia and wanted to pass it along to anyone interested in open source and mobile development. (Some of the links added by me.)

Nokia invites all open source developers (Linux, C, C++, Python) for a fun filled Mobile Open Source Developer Day in San Francisco, organized alongside LinuxWorld held in Moscone Center in early August.

In this event we will show you how to develop open source applications for S60 smart phones — The World’s Biggest Smart Phone Community. We will tell you about new business opportunities, provide latest technical updates, and also give some technical training for open source development on mobile devices. You will hear from industry experts on topics like Python, Qt , Open C++, STL, and Maemo.

We want to keep the event as interactive as possible.You can suggest your own topic and we can talk about that in detail with you. If you want to start building your own open source applications for mobile devices, bring your laptop with you, as we will provide you all the necessary tools along with step by step instructions on developing and porting an existing open source application.

Prizes will be distributed throughout the event –including Nokia N95 - 8GB smart phones and N800 Internet tablets.

The Event is Free for all developers and as a courtesy for attending this event we are giving a one-day free pass to LinuxWorld.

So hurry up and register yourself as seats for the open source workshop and passes for Linux World are limited.

Date –> 06th Aug 2008
Time –>9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Location –> Moscone Center South Hall, 747 Howard street San Francisco, CA. East Mezzanine Level, Room 222
Register today by going to: http://mktools.forum.nokia.com/invitation/opensourcegoesmobile

• America’s founding Geekdads http://tinyurl.com/6nkphn #

Peter Mancini has written another excellent blog post entitled “Measurement improves software development“.

In it, Pete discusses how we started down the path using F1 (or F-Measure) to develop and improve one of our current products, GeoLocator. This approach to using measurement throughout development and software refinement is taken much, much farther in a new initiative we will be announcing in coming weeks.

Watch the Digital Reasoning company blog and here for more on that!

• The Bill of Rights always protected the rights of individuals http://tinyurl.com/6g2s6o #

Apple has released the latest iPhone software update, version 2.0.

This brings ye olde iPhones up-to-software-snuff with the software features on iPhone 3G phones on sale as of today. Biggest new feature: App Store. The related iTunes 7.7 update also adds in something I’ve desperately wanted for the last year: The ability to synchronize your iPhone contacts with your Google GMail contacts, yeah!

During installation you are presented with the following “Important Information” for this release:

iPhone 2.0 Software Update

This version of the software includes the following improvements and supersedes all previous versions.

• Third-party application support
• New App Store
• Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync support
- Push email
- Push contacts with Global Address List lookup
- Push calendars with meeting invites
- Passcode Policies
- Remote Wipe
- Autodiscovery (Exchange Server 2007)
• Cisco IPSec VPN support
• WPA/WPA2 Enterprise with 802.1x authentication
• Certificates and identities support
• Device configuration with Configuration Profiles
• MobileMe support
- Push email
- Push contacts
- Push calendars
- Bookmarks
• Mail, Contacts and Calendars enhancements
- Mass delete and move of messages
- Microsoft PowerPoint and iWork attachment viewing
- Blind carbon copy (bcc) support
- Easier POP/IMAP account setup
- Multiple calendars
- Display meeting invitees
- Contacts search
- Import SIM contacts
- New Mail, Contacts, Calendars settings
• Save images to photo library from Safari and Mail
• Scientific calculator in landscape mode
• Parental controls/restrictions
• New languages, dictionaries, keyboards and input methods
• Turn Wi-Fi back on while in Airplane Mode
• Tapping the status bar scrolls to top of page
• Sync Google contacts with iTunes
• Bug fixes

For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the users guide for your iPhone at:
http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/iphone

For more information about iPhone, go to:
http://www.apple.com/iphone

To troubleshoot your iPhone, or to view additional support information go to:
http://www.apple.com/support/iphone

For information on the security content of this update, please visit this website:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

Jeremy Gossett has posted a fab-o interview he did with our co-colleague Matthew Russell.

In it, Matthew talks about Dojo, how he started writing for O’Reilly, his upcoming OSCON talk on using Dojo’s GFX graphics project, and other things.

If you are involved with Web development, especially Ajax, check out the interview and Matthew’s book. Recommended.

• The Senate has voted to gut the 4th Amendment http://tinyurl.com/5slagz #
• Senate passes ‘Eye of Sauron’ act http://tinyurl.com/5ms9ms #
• Find out if your Senators tore up your 4th Amendment http://tinyurl.com/55suff #
• Do armed citizens deter criminals? Convicted felons say yes http://tinyurl.com/5chm6k #
• iTunes “Check for Updates” is showing 7.7 available, but failing when I smack the “Download iTunes” button; manual download time #

Brought to you by The Poetic Poet, aka SEO Rapper, purveyor of the previous “Conversion Closing Rap“.

Tip o’ the hat to Bre Pettis for his fine tweet bringing this to my attention.

• Dopplr trying to catch-up with TripIt http://tinyurl.com/5jztrx #
• When will we see cloud computing standards? http://tinyurl.com/6lpxjr #

• Partner Preview last week went well and now we’re full speed ahead! More asap #
• Press release for my friend Matthew Russell’s new Dojo O’Reilly book http://oreillynet.com/pub/ec/844 #

Happy Birthday USA!

• How gun control lost http://tinyurl.com/6s5xh4 #
• Thomas Jefferson once wrote, pessimistically, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” #
• But as Jefferson knew, America was founded to reverse that process. #