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This is Kevin Mitnick’s business card. Honestly the most original business card I have ever seen. What do you think?

The New York Times reporter Brad Stone reveals the mystery: The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is written by Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes.

The diary, a parody of popular CEO blogs started in August 2006, soon gained huge readership and media attention. Even Bill Gates, and the real Steve Jobs admitted they read the blog.

The big part of the fun though has been the fact that the author remained unknown. Lyons hoped he could keep the secret until October, when his book “Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody.” will be published.

The blog will now be moved to the Forbes’ website. It’s hard to tell if it will draw the same attention as before. Probably not. The fun has been spoiled.

Daniel Burka announced on Digg’s official Blog they released Digg Widgets built off of their API.

The widget lets you display latest Digg stories on your website. All you have to do is to pick a preffered theme, customize the widget, set the display options and finally paste the generated script code into your site’s HTML code.

There’s a plenty of configuration options. You can set the widget to display all popular stories, a top 10 list, stories dugg by a specified user, popular stories from your favorite site, stories dugg by your friends etc. You can also easily customize the widget’s appearance.

Basically this is a very easy way to make use of the Digg’s API. Without writing a single line of code you can show Digg’s content on your website in a way you need.

Yes, Google already owns a social network - Orkut - which is, however, barely known outside countries like Brazil and India. It’s not a surprise then that they decided to sponsor a new project by Carnegie Mellon University?s Human-Computer Interaction Institute called Socialstream.

As listed on the page, the main goals of the project include:

• Rethinkng and reinventing online social networking
• Discovering the user needs related to social networking and exploring how a unified social network service can enhance their experience.
• Creating a system for users to seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks

Socialstream aspires to be a “unified social network” (USN), which means it would be rather an aggregator of social websites we already use, than a new network.

If you are interested in the whole development process and research they have done to make the product better, there’s a lot of information available on the project’s website.

The video below is a nice demonstration of how Socialstream could be used in the future. At the moment though, there’s no information when the project will be launched (if ever).

I know this video is from 2005 and many of you have already seen it, but anyway I think it’s worth watching again. The Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech has always been a great source of inspiration for me and I like to listen to it whenever I feel less motivated.

And here’s the speech in text.