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A graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley was arrested together with his translator in Mahalla, Egypt, when covering an anti-government protest. Minutes after being arrested he succeeded in sending a message to his friends by using Twitter. The only word he used was “arrested”, and within seconds, his colleagues and friends found out and and stated working on getting him released. Which they succeeded. Read more about this story on CNN.

Super party last night! Take a look at the photos here:

“A computer hacker testified on Wednesday that a News Corp unit hired him to develop pirating software, but denied using it to penetrate the security system of a rival satellite television service. Christopher Tarnovsky — who said his first payment was $20,000 in cash hidden in electronic devices mailed from Canada — testified in a corporate-spying lawsuit brought against News Corp’s NDS Groupby DISH Network Corp.[...]

Tarnovsky told the court that he was paid on a regular basis by Harper Collins, a publishing arm of News Corp, for 10 years. Tarnovsky said one of his first projects was to develop a pirating program to make DirectTV more secure. ”

You can read the whole article here.

Wikipedia, the online community-created encyclopedia, is getting printed. There will be a one-volume Wikipedia Ecyclopedia printed out in Germany in September, which is going to cost 19.95 euros. From this just $1.59 will land into Wiki’s pockets. The volume will have 992 pages and will contain about 50,000 of the most popular articles found on the website. ) Very little I might say if you think that the US version has 2.3 million articles.  The disadvantage comes from the fact that the articles will be condensed to 8 to 10 lines each and it will be a great loss for the extensive articles found in there.

Ether way this is such a good job they did, and  if it works they will probably extend to other countries as well.

Webaware has just published the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners: