MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
It’s Heeerrre: ‘Pay With Facebook’ Is In The Wild  —  Earlier today, we wrote about Facebook updating its terms to get ready for the roll-out of its payment system.  Well guess what, it’s already here.  —  The application GroupCard is currently testing the new payment system live for all accounts that […]

Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Sprint’s Palm Pre ‘War Room’  —  For the phone’s launch, the carrier plans to create “situation rooms” to troubleshoot problems.  —  Sprint is approaching its June 6 launch of the Palm Pre with military strategy.  —  The introduction of the hotly anticipated handset will be Sprint ( S …

AppleInsider:
Apple briefs staff on wireless iPhone movie and TV downloads  —  The iPhone 3.0 operating system release will include new support for direct downloads of movie and TV content from the iTunes Store, according to people familiar with Apple’s internal training materials.

Joe / joestump.net:
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter  —  It was bound to happen sooner or later.  Spam-based viral applications, first made popular on Facebook’s platform, have come to Twitter in the form of Spymaster.  The #spymaster tag is trending on Twitter’s search right now and, judging by my own stream, a bunch […]

Arn / MacRumors:
New Comparison Photo of Matte iPhone Enclosure?  —  In February, the first images depicting the back casing of an unreleased iPhone began circulating around the Internet.  The images showed a matte finish to the casing, but looked otherwise identical to the current iPhone enclosure.

Chris Dannen / Fast Company:
Five Reasons to Be Terrified of Google Wave  —  digg_url = ‘http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/ chris-dannen/techwatch/five-reasons-be- terrified-google-wave’; digg_skin = ‘compact’; Google Wave, announced today at Google’s I/O Developer conference in San Francisco, is a hybridized email system …

Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Let’s talk about Windows 7 Starter  —  There has been a lot of talk recently about Windows 7 Starter, so I thought I’d dive a little deeper into what it means to have this edition of Windows 7 running on a small notebook PC (a.k.a. a netbook).  —  Today, […]

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Spymaster: The Twitter Game That Will Assassinate Your Time  —  Over the past few days, perhaps you’ve seen a few tweets pop up in your stream from people you follow that end with the “spymaster” hashtag.  If not, it’s likely you will soon.  Spymaster is a new social game based around […]

Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google’s Top Policy Executive to Join Obama Administration  —  Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin’s plans.  —  Mr. McLaughlin will be deputy chief technology officer …

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: No more three-app limit in Windows 7 Starter Edition  —  Blogger Paul Thurrott was right.  Microsoft is eliminating one of the biggest sticking points for Windows 7 Starter Edition — the three-application-concurrency limitation.  —  Microsoft officials acknowledged the change on May 29 on the Windows Team Blog.