Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Live: Google Health Launches At Factory Tour of Search  —  Google has invited the press to its headquarters in Mountain View today for some presentations on a variety of search-related projects.  —  The so-called “Factory Tour of Search” event will proceed until about 1pm PT today.

Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Live: Google Health Launching At Factory Tour of Search  —  Google has invited the press to its headquarters in Mountain View today for some presentations on a variety of search-related projects.  —  The so-called “Factory Tour of Search” event will proceed until about 1pm PT today.

Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Ars Technica acquired by Condé Nast: the low-down  —  In less than a month, Ars Technica will be 10 years old.  In 10 years time we’ve accomplished much, but uncovered far more work we want to do.  For the past six months, we’ve been obsessed internally with the question … […]

Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
First public Firefox 3 candidate shoots out the door  —  Mozilla has pushed out the initial release candidate of Firefox 3 for download.  —  The new Firefox code of the firm’s increasingly popular web browser is available in 45 languages as a public preview for developers …

Rajas Moonka / Official Google Blog:
Opening our content network to third parties  —  Today, we’re announcing that Google is accepting third-party advertising tags on the Google content network in North America.  This will empower advertisers to work with approved third parties to serve and track display ads, including rich media ads …

Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
Mobile software Monday: Opera Mobile 9.5  —  One of the primary functions I perform on my mobile devices is web browsing, but until now there have always been limitations with these browsers.  The iPhone had the best current browser for strictly browsing, but didn’t allow you to do much […]

InfoWorld:
Facebook CEO wants to talk with Google on Friend Connect  —  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to sit down with Google and work out the privacy issues that caused Facebook to block Google’s Friend Connect last week, he said Monday.  —  “We want to talk to Google about this and see if there’s … […]

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed  —  It no longer is about Data Portability or Social Graph Portability, if you will.  —  I’m hearing these rumors too that John Furrier (my ex-boss) is reporting.  That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and then buy Facebook for $15 to $20 […]

louisgray.com:
Blogging 2.0 Causing Friction With 1.0 Bloggers  —  Duncan Riley is on a roll.  After a multitude of posts from around the Web this weekend once again debating whether comments away from the blog were a good thing, or if new Web services like Twitter and FriendFeed were useful or were instead creating … […]

Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Will Gmail Get Themes?  —  A source is telling me that Gmail will get themes - custom layouts to personalize Google’s web mail client.  According to the source, the launch of this may happen within the next months.  There will be 12 themes to pick from, according to this information […]