Rick Green / CT Confidential:
Connecticut drops felony charges against Julie Amero, four years after her arrest  —  The unbelievable story of Julie Amero concluded quietly Friday afternoon at Superior Court in Norwich, with the state of Connecticut dropping four felony pornography charges.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers  —  Speculation was rampant the last few weeks that Google had to rely on a third party content delivery network to make the YouTube Live live concert stream properly at scale.  Despite the fact that Google …

Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Live from Virgin America’s Inaugural Wi-Fi Flight  —  This is a first for yours truly—Wi-Fi from a commercial flight: I’m blogging from somewhere above 10,000 feet on Virgin America’s press event flight to kick off its commercial launch of Internet in-flight Internet service.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google SearchWiki Vanishes (Updated)  —  Users are reporting that the recent changes to Google’s search engine, called SearchWiki, have simply disappeared from the site.  It’s certainly gone from my account.  —  I was (and remain) highly critical of SearchWiki, which was announced two days ago …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google SearchWiki Vanishes  —  Users are reporting that the recent changes to Google’s search engine, called SearchWiki, have simply disappeared from the site.  It’s certainly gone from my account.  —  I was (and remain) highly critical of SearchWiki, which was announced two days ago …

Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Lifestreaming in Obamaland  —  Barack Obama will be the most shadowed president in history, and it won’t be just the Secret Service and press corps surrounding him.  —  Citizens and paparazzi armed with camera phones and a variety of other multimedia devices will chronicle every movement he makes in […]

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
The real story behind the Verizon BlackBerry Storm OS?  —  I want to preface this by saying that the following statements are my opinions and hypotheses, and have not be confirmed nor denied by any of sources of mine or official contacts at either corporation.  It should serve […]

Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture  —  I’m tired of this.  This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me.  The bugs.  The compromises.  The firmware upgrades.  The “This will work in the next version.”  The “It’s in our roadmap.”  The “Buy now and upgrade later.”