Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Yahoo! Launches Live Video Service and We Cover it…Live…Sort of  —  The rumored launch of Yahoo!’s live video service became reality tonight at Live.Yahoo.com.  I’m covering it live, in video below.  It looks pretty good though early tests are experiencing scaling issues already.

Megan McCarthy / Epicenter:
Rumor: Plaxo Sold to Google for $200M?  —  We’re hearing rumors that online contact management service Plaxo has accepted a sub-$200 million offer and that the purchasing company is most likely search engine Google.  —  Plaxo has been in the news recently, reportedly hiring a bank to shepherd a sale.

Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Rumor: Apple event the last week of February  —  TUAW has received a tip that the company that does television for Apple’s live events and Macworld is apparently hiring for an unannounced Apple event at the end of February.  Keep in mind that this is an unconfirmed rumor […]

InfoWorld:
Facebook links up with Vodafone on mobile platform  —  Facebook took a new step into the mobile realm on Thursday, launching a platform for operators designed to make its social networking application work better on portable devices.  —  Vodafone is the first operator to use the Facebook …

AppleInsider:
Apple filing depicts Apple TV with iChat widget interface  —  A new and discrete patent filing on the part of Apple Inc. portrays previously undisclosed versions of the company’s Apple TV set-top-box software and remote control that make extensive use of widgets to facilitate everything …

Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Google launches free Team Edition of Apps  —  Google continues its quest to expand the Google Apps universe with a new Team Edition that makes it easy for workgroups to sign up for Google Apps without burdening IT departments or the lone IT support person.  —  “In previous versions […]

Reuters:
ARM to show Google phone prototype next week: source  —  FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - British chip designer ARM (ARM.L: Quote, Profile, Research) will show a prototype mobile phone based on Google’s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Android platform next Monday at the Mobile World Congress wireless show …

Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Google Properties Breakdown - by Pages  —  I wanted to follow up on a comment I received on my post last week with the Google Properties Breakdown.  Gonçalo asks a great question - whether the ranking changes much if we look at page views rather than visits as websites.

Eric Zeman / InformationWeek Weblog:
Google Lets Enterprise Users Aim For The Cloud  —  Google updated the functionality of its Apps hosted productivity software to allow you to share documents with anyone who has the same e-mail domain.  It hopes to spread adoption of its Apps products virally, under the radar of corporate IT.

Tolles / blog.topix.com:
Welcome to the Neighborhood, Google  —  Gulp.  —  Silicon Valley CEO nightmare right out of central casting, right?  In our case, Google launching a local news product that is targeted down to the ZIP code level, something we’ve had a lock on since 2004, and one of our clearest differentiators.