Louis Gray:
Twitter’s Search Engine Is Very, Very, Broken  —  Given all the rumors about Google possibly talking to Twitter about search, or the Mountain View giant taking on the world of real-time, you would think that Twitter’s dramatic growth and user adoption would see the microblogging company sitting …

Reuters:
Draper helps take companies “prublic”  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Noted venture capitalist Tim Draper is teaming up with investors to fund a private exchange for institutional investors to trade shares of start-up companies, calling it a “springboard” to an IPO.

Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Releases New Stable Version of Chrome: Faster, Full Screen Mode, Form Autofill  —  Google today announced a major new update of Chrome, Google’s own browser, that gives the application a large speed boost as well as some new features.  According to Google, Chrome now loads JavaScript …

Julianne Pepitone / CNNMoney.com:
Oprah’s Skypefest draws backlash  —  The Queen of All Media has embraced Skype and Twitter, but technical glitches and other snags highlight why new media isn’t yet ready for prime time.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Oprah Winfrey’s tastemaking power is legendary.

Nick O’Neill / All Facebook:
Areps.at, The New Facebook Phishing Scam (Updated)  —  Facebook phishing scams won’t seem to go away.  Today a new scam appears to be spreading through people’s Facebook inboxes: areps.at.  It’s another obscure URL and it’s just like all the other ones that have been spreading around the site.

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Next iPhone  —  In the summer of 1994, I landed a college internship as a programmer at a DOS/Windows development shop.  There were maybe 20 full-time programmers on the team, and, when I joined, they were nearing the end of a two-year-long project to port their flagship DOS app […]

Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google’s Rubin: Android ‘a revolution’  —  Among all the companies fighting to grab a piece of the brightest star in computing—the smartphone—Google seems the least interested in taking the spoils.  —  Android, Google’s mobile operating system, doesn’t generate revenue for the company …

David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Business Insider, SAI’s Parent, Closes Third Round; Funding Estimated At $5 Million  —  Business Insider, the prodigiously productive business blog network, has closed a third round funding, co-founder, editor and CEO Henry Blodget (pictured, right) announced today.

Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Do iPhone App Store Reviewers Spend Their Time Searching for Porn?  —  A while back we mentioned that an update to popular Twitter client, Tweetie was rejected by the iTunes App Store because, at that particular day and time, ****itlist showed up as a popular trend on Twitter.

Sean Cooper / Engadget:
BlackBerry Storm 2: the official unofficial hands-on  —  We’ve been bumping into the new BlackBerry Storm 2 for quite a while now on the so-called “information superhighway,” but we’ve finally had a chance to escalate those encounters and spend a few sweet moments with a live unit in the flesh.