Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki  —  By 2001 web startup Third Voice, which let people annotate websites via a browser plugin, was done.  Website owners just didn’t like the idea of people “defacing” their websites with comments they couldn’t control.

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Microsoft To Open Cafe In Paris To Build Windows 7 Buzz (Pics)  —  Microsoft is close to opening retail stores in several major cities across the planet, but in Paris they’re doing something special in anticipation of the real shops and the imminent launch of the Windows 7 operating system.

Karl Bode / DSLreports:
AT&T Nervous About Smooth iPhone MMS Launch - Source says that 10AM Eastern on Friday is the magic hour…  Insiders involved with AT&T’s belated launch of iPhone MMS support tell us that everybody’s highly anxious about the launch, as the carrier rushes to beef up infrastructure in order …

Pretty Boy / Gizmodo:
The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn’t Want You To See Yet  —  Project Pink is Microsoft’s secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone.  Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure.  —  These phones are going to be made by Sharp, who’ll get to […]

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One  —  With the explosion of Twitter mobile apps, web-based clients, and desktop applications, it was only a matter of time before someone launched an actual Twitter-focused app store.  Oneforty has built a marketplace to for basically all things Twitter …

Reuters:
Google CEO sees one small acquisition a month  —  PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said acquisitions are “turned on again” at the Internet company and expects to do one small deal a month instead of hiring new staff.  —  Schmidt also reiterated his view …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Last Has Fallen.  The Embargo Is Dead.  —  Late last year I announced a new policy at TechCrunch - we don’t do embargoes.  Well, it was a little more complicated than that, and designed to stir up chaos in the PR ranks.  We said we’d break every embargo, and we […]

Gina Trapani / Smarterware:
Details on Twitter’s Imminent Geolocation Launch  —  Twitter’s new geolocation support was supposed to launch for developers at today’s Twitter Conference in LA (which I’m attending), but it wasn’t quite ready yet.  Still, Twitter’s platform lead Ryan Sarver announced several details about how it will work …

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Google Sidewiki: Danger  —  Google just introduced Sidewiki, which enables anyone to comment on a page using Google’s toolbar.  —  I see danger.  —  Google is trying to take interactivity away from the source and centralize it.  This isn’t like Disqus, which enables me to add comment functionality on my blog.

Mike Fleming / BFDealmemo:
Fincher Makes Facebook Connections  —  Columbia Pictures and director David Fincher have set its core cast for “The Social Network,” the Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama about the formation of Facebook.  —  Jesse Eisenberg will play founder Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake will play Sean Parker …