Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
NEW MACBOOK PRO PHOTO, MAYBE — IT’S FRENCH!  Some French blog, now offline, briefly featured a photo of what may be the new aluminum MacBook Pro.  It appears to be a laptop.  Here’s a screenshot of the now-disappeared blog post:

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Launches Yahoo-Google Facts Site  —  Google has launched a new informational site designed to tell its story about why there’s no need to fear an ad partnership between it and Yahoo.  Within the site, you’ll lots of information about the deal except for one key fact: when exactly […]

Eric Krangel / Silicon Alley Insider:
Muxtape Is Dead.  Long Live Muxtape!  —  Justin Ouellette’s music sharing site Muxtape, which he put on ice in August, is staging a comeback.  Sort of.  —  In a post on muxtape.com, Ouellette finally explains why he had to shut down the service: He’d been trying to cut deals […]

Consumers Union:
Poll: Consumers concerned about internet privacy  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - A poll released today by the Consumer Reports National Research Center shows that most Americans are very concerned about what is being done with their personal information online.  According to the poll …

Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Layoffs at ad network Glam Media  —  A tipster says Glam Media, the women-focused online-ad network, is going through “material layoffs” — 14 out of 200 employees, mostly in sales, Silicon Alley Insider now confirms.  The cutbacks, coming just seven months after Glam raised $85 million, mark the popping of the […]

Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Seeds iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 1  —  Apple has seeded some iPhone developers with a new beta iPhone firmware for testing.  The new version is labeled iPhone OS 2.2 beta 1 and is accompanied by a new beta of the iPhone SDK (build 9M2611).  Beyond “compatibility testing”, there are no other […]

Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Google to supply Bloomberg TV with ads  —  Google has found another partner to use its system for supplying television advertising: Bloomberg TV.  —  The two companies announced the partnership Thursday, touting the ad success measurement abilities that Google has benefited …

Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Microsoft’s Mundie outlines the future of computing  —  CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie on Thursday offered a long-term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing are heading over the next few decades.  Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference …

Chris Pendleton / Virtual Earth, An Evangelist’s Blog:
Announcing The Virtual Earth Web Service and Virtual Earth Map Control 6.2  —  If you follow Microsoft Virtual Earth I’m sure you’ve picked up some blog posts that posted some of the features for this release, but those posts mysteriously disappeared.  Information leaked out and you wondered, […]

Fred / A VC:
Initial Thoughts On MySpace Music  —  I’ve been evangelizing a free streamed all you can eat music service supported by advertising for as long as this blog has been around.  And last night MySpace launched just that in partnership with the four major music lables and the large indie distributor Orchard.