Chris Cadelago / San Francisco Chronicle:
Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit  —  Google has its Googleplex, Craigslist has a Victorian flat, and the seventh-most-popular Web site in the world has this: a 3,000-square-foot nondescript loft situated in San Francisco’s South Park below Interstate 80.

Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Google’s food perks on the chopping block  —  The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.There’s no such thing as a free dinner.  A worker at Google tells us the company is taking evening meals off the menu: “Google has drastically cut back their budget on the […]

David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Google: “No Trespassing” signs won’t stop Street View  —  Google has once again managed to stir up debate about the existence of privacy in our highly connected culture as it argues that the “No Trespassing” sign in your front yard is just for show.  —  Back in April, a Pittsburgh […]

Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops  —  SEATTLE—Imagine your laptop is stolen.  —  Set aside for a second the likelihood that if it was you wouldn’t be able to read this story and think instead about how you might go about tracking it down.

Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
An open-source approach to tracking stolen laptops  —  SEATTLE—Imagine your laptop is stolen.  —  Set aside for a second the likelihood that if it was you wouldn’t be able to read this story and think instead about how you might go about tracking it down.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don’t Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case  —  For those of you not closely following the drama between social network platform Ning and a popular widget provider called WidgetLaboratory, you can read the background here.  On Friday Ning unceremoniously shut down their access to Ning, making all those widgets […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don’t Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case  —  For those of you not closely following the drama between social network platform Ning and a popular widget provider called WidgetLaboratory, you can read the background here.  On Friday Ning unceremoniously shut down their access to Ning, making all those widgets […]

Mark Franchetti / Times of London:
Russians dent Google’s world domination  —  How a bunch of young upstarts humbled the search-engine giant  —  THE Russian mathematician was 24 years old when he first saw a personal computer, one of only a dozen in the whole Soviet Union.  That was in 1984.

Ciaran / jaiku invites:
Jaiku is NOW on the Google App Engine  —  The long awaited move for Jaiku has finally begun.  Last night they took down the home page and took all services off-line and replaced them with this message …  Now I can confirm that they have moved to the Google App Engine […]

James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
The state of Palm- turn out the lights  —  Ryan Block has left the building.  Ryan was the Editor-in-Chief at engadget and is leaving to start a new venture with Peter Rojas.  I won’t wish them luck as they don’t need it, anything those two do together will be a raging […]