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• Google turns on HTTPS for all blogspot blogs

  All blogs hosted on Google's blogspot.com domain can now be accessed over an encrypted HTTPS connection.

• Twitter buys Brisbane music startup

  Twitter has acquired Brisbane music startup We Are Hunted, the startup confirmed.

• Gov 2.0 taskforce recommendations to lead public service reform

  Web 2.0 technologies and updates to the australia.gov.au website are key to creating an open government and facilitating easier government services for citizens, according to a report into the Australian public service.

• Blogs no panacea for free speech

  There are few blogs that have achieved the stature of newspapers, and this limits their power as a vehicle for freedom of speech, says journalist and commentator Denis Welch.

• In Mumbai, bloggers and Twitter offer help to relatives

  Bloggers pitched in offering information and other help to people worldwide as Indian police and commandos battled it out Thursday with armed terrorists in two top hotels and a residential complex in south Mumbai.

• A warning for IT in electoral law changes

  IT and website costs may be affected by the controversial Electoral Finance Bill, warns the Coalition for Open Government (COG).

• Web 2.0 good for business collaboration, says BEA

  With the increasing use of Web 2.0 systems such as blogs, wikis and online social networks, pressure on corporate ICT and top management to allow similar tools and environments within the office will increase, says Sean Boiling, who manages BEA’s systems engineers in Australia and New Zealand.

• 3G phones put NZ ahead in education tech

  New Zealand cellphone calls may be expensive, but we are further into the third generation of cellphone technology than many Western countries, including the US, says Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, an educational technology specialist from Virginia.

• Lotus Notes gets a facelift – and a humour transplant

  IBM is gearing up for possibly the biggest Notes/Domino release ever and promises that the not too user-friendly Lotus Notes will be a lot more fun in the future.

• Web 2.0 melds well with SOA, incremental development – consultant

  The vaunted “Web 2.0” bunch of internet innovations includes surprisingly little that is new on a technical front, says consultant Stefan Korn. Most of it can be achieved in standard HTML. The new style represents, rather, an attitudinal change, towards a more two-way approach to the web.