Jared Newman / PC World:
iPhone App Store 1 Year Later: Apple’s Highs and Lows  —  Apple may enjoy smugly tooting its own horn, but it is particularly puffed-up today while celebrating a year of the iPhone and iPod Touch App Store.  —  “Light a candle and cue the music,” Apple says on a special […]

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Client Tweetdeck Raises Around $2 Million In Funding  —  Tweetdeck, one of the most popular Twitter clients, has raised $2 million in a previously undisclosed round of funding, according to angel investor John Borthwick.  He revealed the funding at TechCrunch’s Real-Time Stream CrunchUp …

Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Pandora Tunes Into $35 Million  —  Online radio network Pandora has raised $35 million in new VC funding, according to multiple sources familiar with the deal.  —  No word yet on who’s leading the round, or which existing shareholders re-upped.  Pandora had previously raised around $29 million …

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Digits:
Android Will Live On, Get ‘Sweeter’ and More Social  —  After Google announced it was working on an operating system based on its Chrome Web browser this week, many wondered: Didn’t Google already build an operating system?  And isn’t it called Android?  —  Yoichiro Akiyama/Flickr  —  Andy Rubin

Patrick Smith / paidContent:
AP, Media Standards Trust Propose News Microformat  —  The Media Standards Trust and the Associated Press news agency want to establish a new industry-wide microformat for online news to increase readership—and therefore revenue—by improving search engine ranking and making content easier to find.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Seesmic’s Browser Client Is Like Gmail For Twitter  —  Seesmic, the Twitter and Facebook desktop client developed by Loic Le Meur, is launching its much talked about browser-based Twitter client today at TechCrunch’s Real-Time Stream CrunchUp.  We first heard about the plans for the browser client …

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Facebook?  Up 10%.  Twitter?  Up 16%.  FriendFeed?  Flat  —  I’m largely seen as FriendFeed’s #1 cheerleader and customer #1.  —  But it isn’t catching on.  —  Rackspace’s President, Lew Moorman, and I have been having an interesting debate.  He even wrote up his thesis …

Lingyun Liu / The Official Google Blog:
Seeing the world with improved Google Search results  —  As an avid traveler, I know how helpful it can be to see a map when searching for a location on Google.  Using our Universal Search technology, we have provided maps in our search results for more than two […]

Asma Alsharif / Reuters:
Bloggers test boundaries in Saudi Arabia  —  JEDDAH (Reuters) - Armed with a computer, an internet connection and his own intellect Ahmed Al-Omran is one of a few Saudi bloggers trying to push for change and make themselves heard in the conservative Gulf Arab monarchy.

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Microsoft VP says Google’s playing defense with Chrome OS  —  Microsoft founder Bill Gates may not want to comment on Chrome OS, the just-announced operating system from Google.  But Walid Abu-Hadba, the software giant’s Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism …