Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
This Is Getting Ridiculous: Cat Amasses Half A Million Twitter Followers In 3 Months  —  Ok, I dig Twitter and I understand why celebrities - who continue to flock to the service as if their careers and social status depend on it - manage to attract massive amounts of […]

Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Facebook raises $150 million more to cash out employees  —  Facebook has almost finished raising $150 million in capital, in an extraordinary move by the company to buy out shares of hundreds of regular employees.  —  Hundreds of the Palo Alto, Calif.’s employees have now toiled at the company …

Meg / meish dot org:
Game Web 2.Over?  —  This collage of web 2.0 logos should be pretty familiar to many people by now.  It’s been knocking about for a few years, ever since the whole Web 2.0 Koolaid (what’s the British equivalent?  Ribena?) started flowing.  —  During that time, I’ve seen it printed … […]

Wolfram:
Live, from Champaign!  —  Wolfram|Alpha just went live for the very first time, running all clusters.  —  This first run at testing Wolfram|Alpha in the real world is off to an auspicious start, although not surprisingly, we’re still working on some kinks, especially around logging.

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Why Twitter’s Engineers Hate the @replies feature  —  Biz Stone, Twitter’s , recently wrote in a blog post entitled The Replies Kerfuffle that … As someone whose day job is working on a system for distributing a user’s updates and activities to their social network in real-time across Web …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Indeed Talking About Opening iPhone Background Tasks  —  As great as the iPhone is, it has one glaring weakness: The inability to run third-party applications in the background.  That badly cripples certain types of apps, such as those that do instant messaging, music streaming and location-based services.