Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Twitter is 2009’s Facebook, With Less Upside  —  Twitter is making the same mistakes Facebook did, which are:  — raising money instead of generating any,  — letting the valuation get ahead of realistic business prospects which will make any M&A nearly impossible,

Wall Street Journal:
Bumpy Start for BlackBerry Storm  —  Verizon Wireless and Research In Motion Ltd. have high hopes for the BlackBerry Storm, which they spent nearly two years developing as their big response to Apple Inc.’s iPhone.  —  But despite a marketing campaign that cost more than $100 million, the smart phone has gotten […]

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook screws iFart author  —  You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried.  —  OK, I’m on the phone with Joel Comm right now.  He’s been doing business online since 1995.  He’s the co-creator of Yahoo Games.  He wrote the Adsense Code, which got onto New York Times best selling […]

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Video: Steve Jobs Giving His First Big Demo  —  Twenty five years ago today, on January 24, 1984, Steve Jobs gave the first on-stage demonstration of the Macintosh computer to a packed auditorium.  The technology was much different then, but it was the same Steve Jobs: a masterful showman able … […]

Robert Darnton / New York Review of Books:
Google & the Future of Books  —  How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view?  The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged […]

Leslie Berlin / New York Times:
Cellphones as Credit Cards?  Americans Must Wait  —  A wave of a cellphone replaces the swipe of a credit card in a pilot program involving MasterCard PayPass, right.  At left, a phone is used to pay for items at a Tokyo candy stand.  Account information can be embedded in […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Stories From The Tell-All MySpace Book  —  Wall Street Journal editor Julia Angwin’s tell-all book about MySpace is set for official publication on March 17, 2009.  We’ve got our hands on a draft of the 268 page book.  Some of the more interesting stories are below (you can pre-order it here).