Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
It’s Not How Many Followers You Have That Counts, It’s How Many Times You Get Retweeted  —  Over the weekend a lot of tech bloggers got into a tizzy over a suggestion that Twitter search should rank Tweets by authority, with Tweets from people who have the most followers coming up […]

Arn / MacRumors:
Vaja Also Hints at iPhone Nano?  —  Relatively well-known iPhone case manufacturer Vaja has curiously added an “iPhone Nano” listing to their website.  The link simply directs you to a form asking you to sign up for information about “the upcoming release of our iPhone nano cases.”

Rick Merritt / EE Times:
Server makers get Goooogled  —  Elements of Google’s most secretive product—its unique PC server design—is beginning to ripple throughout the rest of the industry.  —  Like many companies with giant Internet data centers, Google uses big clusters of commodity x86 servers.

Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
HP MediaSmart Home Server may get some competition from Apple  —  HP this week updated its MediaSmart home server, which has many services Mac users would love to take advantage of.  Centralized iTunes music database for the home, picture sharing, even file sharing over the Internet.

David Meyer / CNET News:
Microsoft outlines pay-per-use PC vision  —  Microsoft has applied for a patent on metered, pay-as-you-go computing.  —  U.S. patent application number 20080319910, published on Christmas Day, details Microsoft’s vision of a situation where a “standard model” of PC is given away or heavily subsidized by someone in the supply chain.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
DMFail: Another Reason To Just Not Send Private Messages On Twitter  —  If you are the kind of person who can’t help but look when you drive by an accident scene, DMFail is for you.  The site, which has been all the rage on Twitter for the last few days, shows […]

Electronista:
LG introduces 3G HSDPA wrist phone  —  Korea-based LG has introduced its latest mobile device, the LG-GD910 wrist-phone featuring support for both 3G and HSDPA technology.  The user interface is presented through a 1.43-inch color LCD touchscreen, while a video camera has been integrated …

Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal:
Hope Fades for PS3 as a Comeback Player  —  In Battle of the Game Consoles, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox Widen Leads Over Sony’s PlayStation  —  TOKYO — For most of this year, Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 videogame console seemed finally to be taking off after a slow start.

Mat Brady / Planet Mat:
The new iPhone ELITE  —  I think my email to Mr Jobs says it all really…  “Hi Steve,  —  As you can see I’ve made a few design suggestions to your iPhone.  —  I’ve held off getting an iPhone until it gets a better camera.  (See pic)  —  Let me […]

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Next-gen iMac to include new cooling module?  —  A new family of iMacs due early next year may include a more sophisticated cooling system, hints the latest reports from sources close to the company’s Taiwanese manufacturing facilities.  —  Backtracking on its report from last week …