World’s biggest encyclopedia Wikipedia has been down some minutes ago. It is hitting nicely in twitter.

Nothing yet has come to the media officially but Wikipedia.com is not working  along with English version. Though some language version and Wikipedia.org  are still live.

It is said that Google send it’s around 80% of traffic to Wikipedia.

[Update: Wikipedia is now running smoothly after around 2-1/2 outage keeping record of longest outage in online encyclopedia world.

CNET reports

According to Jimmy Wales, the site's founder, the outage was caused by a dispute between Wikipedia's ISP, Cogent, and its hosting service, PowerMedium.

Wales said that the dispute had nothing to do with Wikipedia, but rather involved what Wikipedia was told were other "bad" customers. However, when Cogent pulled a block of IP addresses, the group of addresses Wikipedia was leasing were included, and the site went down.

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If you are reguler webmaster who analyzes owned website through Google Analytics then you might have noticed this already.

Once you got to Login page after clicking “Access Analytics” button or logout after you are done with your statistics then at the right top of the page you can see menu. Those menu include Home, Features, Support and Conversion University. Among them Conversion University links to http://www.google.com/analytics/conversionuniversity.html. This link is not working. It returns 404 Not Found Error.

Didn’t believe me? Try yourself But it is too bad to have broken link in one of the most visited (it’s like index page) page for such important website.

Third Annual Crunchies award has been successfully completed recently. They did live streaming through Ustream. Here we got nominees and winners for this years Award ceremony.

Best Technology Achievement:
Backblaze
Bing (Microsoft)
Chrome OS (Google) (Winner)
Google Wave
PuSH
Silverlight (Microsoft)

Best Internet Application:
Animoto
Dropbox (Winner)
Groupon
MOG All Access
Posterous
Yelp

Best Social App:
Aardvark
Brizzly
DailyBooth
Farmville (Winner)
SocialVibe
StockTwits

Best Bootstrapped StartUp:
atebits (Tweetie)
Shoes of Prey
Tinychat (Winner)
Wildfire Interactive
wizehive
Wufoo

Best Mobile Application:
foursquare (Winner)
Google Voice
Gowalla
Kindle for iPhone
Skies of Glory
Tonchidot

Best International:
Amiando
Jolicloud
Playfish
Spotify (Winner)
TweetDeck
vente-privee.com

Best Time Sink Application:
Canabalt
Civilization Revolution (iPhone)
DailyBooth (Winner)
I Am T-Pain
Pandora
Zoosk

Best Design:
Animoto (Winner)
Brizzly
Chrome (Google)
Clicker
Facebook Mobile
Threadsy

Best Enterprise:
Amazon Web Services
Atlassian
Azure (Microsoft)
Chatter (Salesforce)
Google Docs/Office (Winner)
Yext

Best CleanTech:
CalStar Products
Locust Storage
Picarro
Sappphire Energy
Sun Run (Winner)
Tendril

Best New Gadget:
Apple Magic Mouse
Barnes & Noble nook (Winner)
litl webbookMotorola Droid
Sonos S5
Zune HD

Best Tech PR:
Brew Media Relations
LaunchSquad
OutCast Communications
PerkettPR
Spark (Winner)
SutherlandGold Group

Best Angel:
Betaworks
Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital)
Jeff Clavier (SoftTechVC)
Ron Conway (SV Angel) (Winner)
Y-Combinator
Yossi Vardi

Best VC Firm:
Accel Partners (Winner)
Charles River Ventures
Benchmark Capital
Greylock Partners
Sequoia Capital
True Ventures
Union Square Ventures

Founder Of The Year:
Aaron Patzer (Mint) (Winner)
Elon Musk (Tesla)
Jack Dorsey (Square)
Jeremy Stoppelman & Russ Simmons (Yelp)
John Borthwick (Betaworks)
Omar Hamoui (AdMob)

CEO Of The Year:
Josh Silverman (Skype)
Marc Benioff (Salesforce)
Mark Pincus (Zynga) (Winner)
Neil Young (ngmoco)
Richard Rosenblatt (Demand Media)
Tony Hsieh (Zappos)

Best New Startup Or Product Of 2009:
Aardvark
Bing (Microsoft) (Winner)
Foursquare
Hunch
Milo
Spotify

Best Overall Startup Or Product Of 2009:
Android (Google)
Facebook (Winner)
LinkedIn
ngmoco
Twitter
Zynga

This is getting worse and worse since I started first posting here. A lots of users uses same password normally in all websites without punctuation and mixed characters. Users who used to use passwords like ’12345′ are going to regret badly.And similarly those who uses same password in all websites.

But still RockYou is giving plain text and unencrypted password system to the users.

Here are some samples of database that was released masking passwords.

Data UserAccount [32603388]
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1|jennaplanerunner@hotmail.com|mek*****|myspace|0|bebo.com
2|phdlance@gmail.com|mek*****|myspace|1|
3|jennaplanerunner@gmail.com|mek*****|myspace|0|
5|teamsmackage@gmail.com|pro*****|myspace|1|
6|ayul@email.com|kha*****|myspace|1|tagged.com
7|guera_n_negro@yahoo.com|emi*****|myspace|0|
8|beyootifulgirl@aol.com|hol*****|myspace|1|
9|keh2oo8@yahoo.com|cai*****|myspace|1|
10|mawabiru@yahoo.com|pur*****|myspace|1|
11|jodygold@gmail.com|att*****|myspace|1|
12|aryan_dedboy@yahoo.com|iri*****|myspace|0|
13|moe_joe_25@yahoo.com|725*****|myspace|1|
14|xxxnothingbutme@aol.com|1th*****|myspace|0|
15|meandcj069@yahoo.com|too*****|myspace|0|
16|stacey_chim@hotmail.com|cxn*****|myspace|1|
17|barne1en@cmich.edu|ilo*****|myspace|1|
18|reo154@hotmail.com|ecu*****|myspace|1|
19|natapappaslie@yahoo.com|tor*****|myspace|0|
20|ypiogirl@aol.com|tob*****|myspace|1|
21|brittanyleigh864@hotmail.com|bet*****|myspace|1|myspace.com
22|topenga68@aol.com|che*****|myspace|0|
23|marie603412@yahoo.com|cat*****|myspace|0|
24|mellowchick41@aol.com|chu*****|myspace|0|
25|baiko0o@aol.com|may*****|myspace|0|
26|indahamzah84@hotpop.com|lov*****|myspace|0|

If you have account in RockYou and using same password to all accounts in Facebook to Myspace then better change it right now.

Microsoft Juku was was recently launched by MSN China. But something funny happened with their product. But it was not just coincidence because Juku and Plurk are exact to each other. They are both identical. But MSN and Plurk are no way related to each other. And Microsoft has got no answer to reply. Here’s what they are saying.

Earlier today, questions arose over a feature developed by a third-party vendor for our MSN China joint venture. We are working with our MSN China joint venture to investigate the situation.

Unfortunately, when these questions first arose, it was the middle of the night in China. Now that the day has begun in China, our teams are working hard to track down the information.

Here’s what we know at this point. Our MSN China joint venture contracted with an independent vendor to create a feature called MSN Juku that allowed MSN users to find friends via microblogging and online games. This MSN Juku feature was made available to MSN China users in November and is still in beta.

Because questions have been raised about the code base comprising the service, MSN China will be suspending access to the Juku beta feature temporarily while we investigate the matter fully.

We will provide additional information as we learn more.

Currently Juku is down. But this proved that Microsoft is tired of competition and don’t have any idea on their next product. So, they are doing everything in crazy way.