Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Collapses, Analysts Get Bearish  —  It’s inevitable: When you’re banging the drum on a stock and all it does is hit you on the head with a two-by-four day after day you eventually get discouraged.  (Don’t we know it.)  No Google bull has truly capitulated yet, as far […]

Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
What just happened at Valleywag?  The FAQ  —  I love Owen, but he has trouble writing in English during a crisis.  So here’s the basics on what’s happening at Valleywag:  — Some guy named Denton can’t figure out how to sell ads on Valleywag.  — So he’s going to sneak Valleywag […]

Benjamin J. Romano / Microsoft Pri0:
October video game hardware sales continue to grow, Nintendo leads  —  Despite a worsening economy, all three current-generation video game consoles had better U.S. sales in October than they did a year ago, according to the latest figures from The NPD Group.

Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
New Mac OS X 10.5.6 test build has over 90 fixes  —  Apple seems to be making a fair bit of progress on the upcoming Mac OS X 10.5.6 update.  This week, the company released a new test build of the package to its update testers.  This time around, Italian […]

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Cell phone boarding passes coming to an airline near you  —  The next time you head over to the security line at the airport, you may not have to fish around for your boarding pass in order to get past the TSA agents.  Instead, you’ll be able to flash your […]

Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
“Fred” is the star of the NewTeeVee Live conference  —  The star of the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco: Fred.  —  Lucas Cruikshank, the hyper, screeching 15-year-old Internet sensation from Omaha who created the “Fred” series on YouTube, won over the adult audience at a conference … […]

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Where in the World Is Yahoo’s Board?  —  With a $10 stock price, the turning down of Microsoft’s $31 a share offer, a collapsed search advertising deal with Google (GOOG), fleeing execs and bad news aplenty, it’s easy to blame Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and call for his ouster.  —  After […]

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Trumpets Cashback Successes  —  Microsoft Live Search Cashback launched with great expectation in some quarters that it would grow Microsoft’s search share dramatically.  That, so far, has failed to happen.  But Microsoft says it is making progress toward its own more realistic goal …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Analyst: “Worst Economic Environment In Our Collective Lifetimes”  —  Google’s stock price closed yesterday at $291, the first time it has dropped below $300 since 2005.  It’s 44% off of its 52-week high of $725.  Most analysts think its cheap and getting cheaper - the average price target is still […]

Oliver Marks / Collaboration 2.0:
Twitterank Creator Speaks  —  After my post yesterday afternoon about Twitterank, its creator Ryo Chijiiwa contacted me by email to ask if I’d like to hear his side of the story: I offered him a guest post.  Over to Ryo:  —  I blame the Family Guy.  There I was in […]