Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Sucks Life Out of Old Media: Check Out The 2007 Share Shift  —  For the past few quarters, we’ve analyzed the amazing rate at which advertising spending is moving online.  Now we’re able to look at full-year 2007.  —  Specifically, we analyzed the change in US advertising revenue […]

YouTube :: Blog:
YouTube Videos in High Quality  —  You may have noticed that we’re now giving you the option of watching some YouTube videos in higher quality.  We’re making these streams available on certain videos, based upon the source file uploaded to us, and over time you’ll find a greater percentage …

Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
SXSW: Not Much to Twitter About  —  Plenty has been said about my interview with Mark Zuckerberg.  Maybe that’s because there wasn’t much else at the conference to talk about  —  I’m just back from four days in sunny Austin, Tex., where I attended the South by Southwest Interactive Conference […]

David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Apple to iPhone App Store applicants: Just hang tight  —  It’s never easy to get a Dear John letter, but it can sting a little more when you’re getting the same letter as everyone else.  Such is the case with the first wave of iPhone App Store “rejection” letters that […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service  —  Facebook has been testing a new instant messaging service and will be launching it to the public soon, perhaps in the next week.  —  Our understanding is that the service will be built into user’s Facebook pages and allow them to web chat with […]

Adam / Reuters/Second Life:
EXCLUSIVE - Rosedale to step down as Linden Lab CEO  —  Linden Lab Chief Executive Philip Rosedale said on Friday the company he founded has begun a search for a new CEO with more operational and management expertise.  —  Rosedale will become chairman of the Linden Lab board when his successor […]

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Comscore: YouTube dominance grows  —  As big media companies and start-ups alike try to make headway in the crowded online video market, YouTube’s dominance is still growing.  —  Google (which owns YouTube) accounted for 34.3 percent of the online videos watched in January, up 1.7 percent from December, according to ComScore.

I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Blu-ray Blues  —  Now that HD DVD is dead and Sony’s Blu-ray has apparently won the HD media war, why aren’t we seeing Blu-ray drives available as a factory option, at least, for Macintosh computers?  I think Steve Jobs is deliberately holding back in a high-stakes gamble for […]

louisgray.com:
Duncan Riley Misses the Point of FriendFeed  —  Yesterday, it could be said that FriendFeed “tipped”, as TechMeme’s Gabe Rivera put it.  Dozens of visible FriendFeed users reported getting an unprecedented swarm of subscriptions by new friends, and the site gained incredible exposure via comments …

Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Del.icio.us: Dropping The Periods, Overhauling Design (YHOO)*  —  *Editor’s Note: TechCrunch notes that this news hit Silicon Valley last September.  We’re putting the screws to our wagon-train driver.  —  Remember Del.icio.us?  The social bookmarking service was one of the earliest symbols of Web 2.0 …