Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Cisco Software Takes On Microsoft, IBM  —  The networking giant announces new collaboration tools for IM, e-mail, social networking and more.  —  If Cisco wasn’t making enough enemies with its string of bold acquisitions and a brazen push into the server market last spring …

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all  —  Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike […]

Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
GM, Kellogg, Nestle Beat to the Tweet as Squatters Take Over Twitter Names  —  Marketers That Have Not Registered Handles Fear Brand Reputation at Risk  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — On Twitter’s @Hyundai page, there is a collection of 140-character blasts in English and Korean about oysters, cellphones and the Yankees.

Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher  —  Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original.  —  Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more.

Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
New microsytax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher  —  Image based on Kevin Van Aelst’s original.  —  Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more.

Mark Pincus Blog:
Ensuring zynga’s user experience - removing all cpa offers  —  michael arrington posted yesterday on mobile offerings still being shown in our new game fishville.  I want to explain why this occurred and how we are taking more aggressive steps to ensure this never happens again.

Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Verizon takes another swing at AT&T, puts iPhone on the Island of Misfit Toys  —  AT&T might be suing Verizon for misrepresenting its network in ads, but that doesn’t seem to have dissuaded Beg Red from using that same map image in this new spot, which casts the iPhone away to […]

Help Net Security:
Battle of the anti-virus: What is the best software?  —  AV-Comparatives.org recently released the results of a malware removal tests with which they evaluated 16 anti-virus software solutions:  — Avast Professional Edition 4.8  — AVG Anti-Virus 8.5  — AVIRA AntiVir Premium 9.0

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Droid fails AS A PRODUCT when compared to Palm Pre and iPhone  —  So, the hype got to me.  Yesterday I headed to Verizon and bought a Motorola Droid, which runs Google’s Android operating system.  —  Last night my friend Luke Kilpatrick came over and we compared the Droid to […]

Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Why the mainstream media is dying  —  Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other.  This […]