一位著名的编程博主重新吸取了数据脆弱性的教训，谷歌和Facebook跳进了缩短链接的游戏，而雷·库兹韦尔预测的未来是如此光明，这个婴儿不得不戴上墨镜。

• Making URLs shorter for Google Toolbar and FeedBurner Google makes the ultimate pitch for its own URL shortener (linking as goo.gl): if you can't trust our servers to stick around, whose servers can you trust? [Official Google Blog]
• Bit.ly Just Got Fu.kd: Facebook And Google Get Into The Short URL Game TechCrunch has a slightly different take on two web giants jumping into the Twitter-friendly URL game: they're totally going to eat every third-party shorteners' lunch.
• International Backup Awareness Day Coding Horror's proprietor offers a face-palming take on how his own site suffered a pretty serious data loss. The really short version: No matter where you're hosted, have a solid, regular backup of your blog, or any data, folks. [Coding Horror]
• AT&T Takes the Fall for the iPhone's Glitches New York Times reporter suggests that AT&T is just a big, fat target for all the iPhone experience's failings—even the supposed hardware deficiencies. Not everyone agrees, to put it mildly. [New York Times]
• Top futurist, Ray Kurzweil, predicts how technology will change humanity by 2020 The man who's surprisingly prescient about what's next to come in society and technology offers his take on what's next. Your view of the world is about to get a lot different, the scribe says. [NY Daily News]
• What Matters Now: Download the Free E-Book Our own Gina Trapani contributes a chapter about—what else?—getting things done to prominent blogger Seth Godin's What Matters Now. [Smarterware]