Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook Blog:
Facebook’s 5th Birthday  —  Tomorrow is Facebook’s 5th birthday.  This is a happy occasion for Facebook, but much more significant to the Facebook team is the fact that over 150 million people around the world are using Facebook to connect with the people in their lives.

Fred von Lohmann / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
YouTube’s January Fair Use Massacre  —  Privacy info.  This embed will serve content from youtube.com.  —  This is what it’s come to.  Teenagers singing “Winter Wonderland” being censored off YouTube.  —  Fair use has always been at risk on YouTube, thanks to abusive DMCA takedown notices sent … […]

Microsoft:
Windows 7 Wins on Netbook PCs  —  Q&A: Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing, discusses Microsoft’s take on netbook PCs and how Microsoft’s newest operating system, Windows 7, will support these small computers.  —  Small, mobile and affordable PCs …

Microsoft:
Windows 7 Lineup Offers Clear Choice for Consumers and Businesses  —  Q&A: Windows General Manager Mike Ybarra discusses how Windows 7 editions are being designed to make buying simple, while serving the needs of more than 1 billion customers worldwide.  —  Last month Microsoft delivered …

getclicky.com/blog:
Google’s new Ajax-powered search results breaks search keyword tracking for everyone  —  Google is currently testing search results delivered via “Ajax” from google.com itself.  Big deal?  Yes.  This change breaks search/keyword tracking for every single analytics app in existence.

Emil A Eklund / Gmail Blog:
New ways to label with “Move to” and auto-complete  —  One of the features that makes Gmail different is its use of labels instead of folders.  Sure, labels can serve pretty much the same purpose — they can help organize mail or flag messages for follow up.

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Citi Says Amazon Sold 500,000 Kindles Last Year; $1.2 Billion Business Next Year  —  Amazon is set to unveil Kindle 2.0 next Monday at a New York press event.  But how many of the original e-book readers has it sold already?  Don’t ask Jeff Bezos and company-the Amazon folks delight in […]

Mike Harvey / Times of London:
Man killed by ‘exploding mobile phone’  —  A man has died after his mobile phone exploded, severing a major artery in his neck, according to reports.  —  The man, thought to be a shop assistant in his twenties at a computer shop in Guangzhou, China, died after he put […]

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft’s Windows 7 line-up: The good, the bad and the ugly  —  If you were one of those individuals holding out hope that Microsoft might go the way of Apple and move to one or two SKUs for Windows 7, your prayers have gone unanswered.  But there still […]

Sascha Segan / AppScout:
Motorola: Windows Mobile 7 Coming in 2010  —  Motorola had an earnings conference call today with some juicy tidbits embedded in it.  Primarily, Moto confirmed that they’re losing tons of money and that their handset business is not doing very well at all.  So how are they going to turn it […]