Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Minnesota town tells Google Maps to get lost  —  A small town in Minnesota has told Google that its Street View feature can hit the road.  —  The community of North Oaks, a private community of 4,500 north of St. Paul, isn’t too keen on outsiders traipsing through its privately […]

John Markoff / Bits:
A Tribute to Jim Gray: Sometimes Nice Guys Do Finish First  —  For a half-decade, the San Francisco bureau of the New York Times had a remarkable resource.  Just five floors above us were the offices of Microsoft’s Bay Area Research Center and more specifically, Gordon Bell and Jim Gray … […]

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Walking around Paris with Dave Sifry  —  I was sworn to secrecy about what we were doing in Paris last December.  You thought I was there to attend and speak at the LeWeb conference.  I was.  But we also were testing out Dave Sifry’s new business idea, which he now calls […]

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Like.com’s Creepy, But Effective, Facebook Ads  —  Is a picture worth a thousand clicks?  You’ve heard of contextual ads triggered by keywords on a Web page.  Now, get ready for contextual ads triggered by images on the page.  Visual-shopping search engine Like.com is running ads on Facebook …

Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Bought Me.com? .  Mac’s New Name?  —  Earlier today, John Gruber of DaringFireball.net suggested that Me.com might be the name for Apple’s .Mac rebranding.  There was no real evidence, however, except that Me.com was registered under MarkMonitor’s domain service.

Fred / A VC:
My Vision For Social Media  —  I don’t have a particularly well thought out road map for investing in social media.  I just use the stuff as much as I can and I get urges to do things I can’t do.  The rest of our team does the same thing.  Then […]

Lora Pabst / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
North Oaks tells Google Maps: Keep out - we mean it  —  The St. Paul suburb with private roads may be the first U.S. city to ask that street images be removed.  —  You can look at almost anything on Google.  Just don’t try to sneak a peek of […]

BIZ / Twitter Blog:
It’s Not Rocket Science, But It’s Our Work  —  The general public is fascinated with every bug that pops up on board the Mars Phoenix Lander because no matter how small, they always seem mission critical.  It’s exciting stuff and we hang on every bit of news.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bezos Talks Web Services  —  Last week at the D6 conference, Om Malik caught Jeff Bezos on video after his on-stage appearance (in which he talked about a new pay-per-download movie service).  In the five-minute hallway interview (embedded below), Bezos explains why a Web retailer is offering cloud computing services.

Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Wikipedia 3.0: You can now edit any page on Mahalo  —  The most powerful feature of Wikipedia is that anyone can edit any page at any time.  This feature has allowed everyone to get involved, even if their contribution is bad.  The brilliance of this move is that […]