Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google to Launch a Microblogging Search Engine  —  Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter.  Since it’s very easy to post updates and the posts are usually very short, micro-blogging services are great for live blogging, posting real-time information about […]

Bloomberg:
Facebook Members Register Personalized User Names at Rate of 550 a Second  —  Facebook Inc., the largest social- networking site, said members registered user names at a rate of more than 550 a second in the 15 minutes after the company offered people the chance to claim personalized Web addresses.

John C Abell / Epicenter:
Facebook URL Madness: I Got Mine, But So Did Haywood Jablome  —  Imagine the odds: No sooner did Facebook swing open the doors to its fire sale of vanity URLs than a geeky frat party ensued, as members reserved prankish, clever and lewd names instead of maybe the digital alias […]

Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
AT&T already sold out of launch day iPhone 3G S pre-orders  —  Signaling a likely repeat of Apple’s iPhone sell-outs of the past two years, AT&T is already warning that those making iPhone 3G S pre-orders that they won’t get their handsets on launch.  —  The US carrier’s internal sales system […]

Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Safari numbers still dwarfed by Firefox downloads  —  Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player.  Unfortunately, its numbers simply don’t compare to Firefox.  —  Safari 4.0 notched 11 million downloads in just three days.

Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Apple’s misleading Safari numbers still dwarfed by Firefox downloads  —  Apple has been desperately trying to turn Safari into a mainstream browser player.  Unfortunately, its numbers simply don’t compare to Firefox.  —  Safari 4.0 notched 11 million downloads in just three days.