Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Twitter’s Back Alleys Threaten To Sully The Service  —  Nude and explicit photographs have become more common on Twitter, and while the site began to gain momentum for marketing and customer service departments looking to promote products and services, or connect with customers …

Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Marketers Call For Twitter To Filter Content For Pornography, Spam  —  Nude and explicit photographs have become more common on Twitter.  While the site has begun to gain momentum for marketing and customer service departments looking to promote products and services, or connect with customers …

Doug Gross / CNN:
Attacks, arrests slowing online news from Iran  —  (CNN) — Bloody attacks and midnight arrests, combined with a regime growing more technologically savvy, have begun stemming the flow of online information from dissidents in Iran, activists and human rights officials say.

Nick O’Neill / All Facebook:
Yelp Launches Facebook Connect  —  Today Yelp launched their implementation of Facebook Connect to enable users to share reviews with their friends on Facebook.  After you post your review on Yelp, you are prompted to post it to your feed.  That’s about the extend of the service …

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
One More Thing: The New Facebook iPhone App Will Allow Video Uploads  —  Yesterday, we wrote about what Facebook was planning for the next major release of its iPhone app, version 3.0.  The big update will contain 15 new features, probably none bigger than the addition of event management to the […]

Jim Norris / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed real-time search.  We have it.  It’s here.  —  One of the coolest things about FriendFeed is how you can see everything that’s happening on the site in real-time.  Starting today, this is even more true with real-time search.  —  Just enter a search query as you always have … […]

Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple retail stores can now replace broken iPhone screens  —  Apple has expanded the services offered by its retail stores to include fixing damaged iPhone screens.  —  The Loop has confirmed that if your iPhone has a broken screen and you take it to an Apple retail relocation, they have […]

John D. Sutter / CNN:
Twittering from the tractor: smartphones sprout on the farm  —  (CNN) — As he rolls across the wheat fields of his Nebraska farm, Steve Tucker often has his hands not on the wheel of his tractor, but on a smartphone.  —  He sometimes posts a dozen messages per day on […]

Sumner Lemon / Computerworld:
Apple patching serious SMS vulnerability on iPhone  —  The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code  —  IDG News Service - Apple Inc. is working to fix an iPhone vulnerability that could allow an attacker to remotely install and run unsigned software code with root […]

Akshay Patil / The Official Google Blog:
New Blog Search tools: Feeds, Hot Queries and Latest Posts  —  Ever since the new Google Blog Search homepage launched, we’ve been fielding requests for a myriad of different features.  Today we’re happy to announce the launch of our most requested feature: RSS and Atom feeds.