Danieleran / Roughly Drafted:
Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore  —  Daniel Eran Dilger  —  Regular readers will recall that when Safari for Windows shipped, I suggested Apple was likely looking to move its Mac OS X Cocoa development model into the Windows arena in order to broaden Cocoa’s visibility and adoption.

Jerry / The Secret Diary of [Steve Jobs] Jerry Yang:
The first great battle of the Internet is over, and I’m delighted to announce that we’ve finished in second place  —  Look, I would never admit this to anyone in public, but the truth is that our deal with Google marks the end of the […]

louisgray.com:
Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What’s Next  —  Tonight, I was lucky enough to have dinner with Daniel Ha, the CEO and co-founder of Disqus.  One of the advantages of being in the Silicon Valley is that in many cases, I can actually engage with and meet the people … […]

Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic  —  Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers.  Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files.  —  For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price for access.

TechCrunch:
Why Kyte.tv will kill Qik and Flixwagon in cell phone video space  —  The post below is written by Robert Scoble, a top blogger and the founder FastCompanyTV.  —  Robert has been one of the earliest adopters of cell phone video, which offers the ability to stream live to the Internet …

Joe Nocera / New York Times:
Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby  —  Congratulations — you pulled it off.  You got Microsoft to walk away from your beloved Yahoo for good.  The final word went out on Thursday.  There isn’t going to be any megamerger.  No smaller deal to sell your search business, or […]

Andrew Sullivan / Times of London:
Google is giving us pond-skater minds  —  Here’s something I didn’t know: Friedrich Nietzsche used a typewriter.  Many of those terse aphorisms and impenetrable reveries were banged out on an 1882 Malling-Hansen Writing Ball.  And a friend of his at the time noticed a change …