Tim O’Reilly / O’Reilly Radar:
A Manifesto on Health Data Rights  —  As a medical patient, I’ve always assumed that my medical records were something that I had a right to - after all, they are about me, and my freedom to share them with a second doctor, or see them myself so I can […]

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Apple approving apps with push, Beejive goes live  —  You heard that right, folks.  People complaining that Apple’s very-much-delayed push notification service might be delayed again can all relax — Beejive 3.0, the fantastic new version with push support will be going live in about an hour or […]

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Now We’re Talking: AIM With Push Support Hits The App Store  —  There’s been a lot of talk the past few days since the launch of the iPhone 3.0 software about the lack of Push Notification apps in the App Store.  Well, today brings a big one: AOL Instant Messenger (AIM).

Fred Vogelstein / Wired News:
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out  —  Larry Page should have been in a good mood.  It was the fall of 2007, and Google’s cofounder was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company’s European operations in […]

Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
It’s Official: Steve Jobs Already Back at Work  —  Jobs is in the House!  —  Confirmed!  Steve Jobs did report to work today, as I suggested in an earlier post, at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters, according to employees who have seen him on campus.  —  Officials at Apple […]

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
HP launches web-connected, touch-screen printers that don’t need computers  —  Hewlett-Packard announced this morning that it has created a touch-screen printer that can print images off the web directly, without the need to connect to a computer.  —  It raises the question: what’s the peripheral, the computer or the printer?

Wall Street Journal:
T-Mobile, Verizon to Sell Google-Based Phones by Motorola  —  Two large U.S. wireless carriers plan to launch Motorola Inc. smart phones based on Google Inc.’s Android operating system before the end of the year, according to people familiar with the matter.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
A Social Force Departs Google  —  Kevin Marks, a social force within Google and one of the main drivers behind its recent social efforts (including OpenSocial, its Social Graph API, and Microformats) is leaving the company.  He announced his departure today on his blog.

Kevin Marks / Epeus’ epigone:
Farewell to Google  —  I’m no longer working for Google.  I had an interesting time there and worked on lots of fascinating projects with great colleagues, so this is a small look back at some of them.  —  My first taste of Google was to work on orkut, before starting […]

Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
iPhone 3GS Selling As Quickly As iPhone 3G  —  Whether the Phone 3GS will find as much demand as the iPhone 3G over the first few months of its release is still to be seen, but as of now it’s off to a strong start.  —  Note that it took 74 […]