Steve Gillmor / TechCrunchIT:
Rest in Peace, RSS  —  It’s time to get completely off RSS and switch to Twitter.  RSS just doesn’t cut it anymore.  The River of News has become the East River of news, which means it’s not worth swimming in if you get my drift.  —  I haven’t been in Google […]

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Must Buy Twitter  —  Microsoft (MSFT) is about to finally consummate a search deal with Yahoo — and that’s great.  But if Redmond really wants to carve into’s Google search business over the next 10 years, it needs to offer whatever it takes — $800 million? $1 billion? […]

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Looky What Apple’s Promoting: QuickPWN  —  If you own an iPhone or iPod touch you’ve probably at least heard of QuickPWN, the jailbreaking tool.  You’d think Apple doesn’t want you know know about it, because it allows you to open up your iPhone to use apps outside of the App Store […]

Roberto Baldwin / Mac|Life all:
Source: 10.5.7 Hitting Your Mac on Friday  —  If you’ve been champing at the bit for the magic of 10.5.7, according to a super-secret Apple source, your champing can cease on Friday.  The newest version of Leopard is slated to fix a slew of networking, syncing and bluetooth issues.

Scott Duke Harris / Mercury News:
IPO pipeline has turned into a sieve  —  If Rosetta Stone was a Silicon Valley company, the local venture capital crowd might be feeling a bit more chipper these days.  The Virginia-based company makes language teaching software, with 31 languages available on CD-ROM.

AT&T:
AT&T Introduces Free ‘Mywireless Mobile’ Application on Apple App Store  —  iPhone Customers Can View Data and Voice Usage, Manage Bill Payments, Add New Wireless Features and More

Jim Spanfeller / paidContent.org:
What Google Can Do To Make The Web Less Of A ‘Cesspool’  —  Jim Spanfeller is president and CEO of Forbes.com.  He is also treasurer of the Online Publishers Association and chairman emeritus of the Interactive Advertising Bureau.  —  After years of debate about the value of the near monopoly owned […]

Julie Rivera / Crave: The gadget blog:
Behind-the-scenes Palm Pre advert leaked…and stars Facebook?  —  We’ve already seen Palm and Apple clash when it comes to print advertisements, but now details of what could be the first Pre TV advertisement have leaked.  Photographer and film maker Jaime Gonzalez had been tweeting …

Owen Thomas / Gawker:
The Webby Awards Remain the Best Scam Going  —  For a dozen years, the Webby Awards have tried to make the Web glamorous.  But what they’ve really done is distill the hucksterism of the Internet into its purest form.  —  Among the inside crowd, the Webby Awards were always a joke […]

David / TmoNews:
Visual Voicemail Coming!  —  Well I bet at least a few of you will be more than interested in getting your hands on this feature and while the above picture lacks any real detail, an approaching release date is interesting enough.  Visual voicemail is a feature the iPhone popularized …