CloudFlare , the increasingly popular security and CDN service, suffered a security breach last week that allowed hacktivist group UGNazi  to hijack CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince’s Gmail account and gain access to the account of one of CloudFlare’s customers. CloudFlare won’t say who exactly the hacker targeted with this attack, but rumor has it that 4chan.org was likely on the hacker’s hit list. Now, after investigating the problem over the weekend, CloudFlare is releasing more information about how this could have happened.

Netflix announced today that it is rolling out a new content delivery network of its own , called Open Connect, which will reduce its costs of delivery and could improve delivery of its content. But Open Connect isn’t just about reducing its reliance on third-party CDNs like Akamai, Limelight, and Level 3 — by connecting directly with ISPs, Netflix could improve the relationships it has network operators. Through Open Connect, ISPs can choose to peer directly with Netflix at one of eight settlement-free peering exchanges.

I’m a full supporter of e-books, e-book devices, and agree (mostly) with this excellent WSJ assessment by Rob Reid of the the e-book business.

Video app Socialcam  once again topped our list of the fastest growing Facebook applications by monthly active users this week. Titles on our list gained the most MAU of any apps on the platform, growing from between 900,000 and 15.7 million MAU, based on our  AppData  tracking service.

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If you liked the larger photos that Facebook introduced to its mobile news feed last month , here’s some good news: It’s bringing a similar redesign to its Web interface. Specifically, Facebook says photos in the news feed will now be enlarged to up to 2x their previous size, and displayed in a new layout that can bring more photos from an album into the feed. Text in news feed posts is also going to be larger and wider spaced.

The Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is back, with 10 new startups just announced as part of its Summer 2012 class. From political fundraising to group travel to social business referrals, the incubator has a wide range of startups going through its latest three-month program. Like other incubators, the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator is aimed at helping early stage startups get off the ground

Meebo, the seven year-old chat service that morphed into a website toolbar and ad platform, is indeed selling to Google .

The GTar , everyone’s favorite Disrupt near-winner, has just announced full MIDI compatibility for their guitar, allowing musicians to connect to popular software and “play” various sounds and triggers right on the guitar fretboard. MIDI is still quite popular and is the standard for keyboard interfaces with most major music programs.

Amazon’s $79 Kindle may be the least flashy of the the bunch, but the Seattle company is starting to push out a new software update that adds some much-needed functionality to their cost-conscious e-reader. One of the biggest additions to the mix is support for Kindle Format 8, Amazon’s relatively new e-book file format. The $79 Kindle seems to be bringing up the rear in that respect, as the Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, and most of the Kindle mobile apps have already been updated to play well with those newer KF8 files.