The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:

Verizon BlackBerry Storm review  —  The BlackBerry Storm.  It feels like ages ago since we first broke news of this bad boy, but the release is finally right around the corner.  Literally, it’s tomorrow!  Need we say more?  Heck yeah!  We’ve got a pretty substantial review on the device …

Yahoo! Search Blog:

Gluing Together the Best Content on the Web  —  You may have heard about our experimental visual display of search results on Yahoo! India, called Glue™ Pages.  Tonight we’re launching a similar, but slightly different experience in the U.S. with Yahoo! Glue™ beta.

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

Samsung launches 256GB solid-state drive  —  Samsung on Wednesday night said it has begun mass-producing 256GB solid-state drives.  This size tops the largest-capacity SSDs found in laptops today.  —  Samsung currently offers 64GB and 128GB SSDs for laptops.

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Google Kills Lively  —  Even Google is getting into the downsizing spirit.  It just announced that it is killing Lively, its browser-baseed virtual worlds that could be embedded into other Websites.  Lively launched just last July.  The death notice on the site says it will shut down on December 31 …

Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:

BlackBerry Storm review  —  By now most of us have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planning stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought the device to was America’s largest network, Verizon.  Even if you haven’t heard how the tale ends …

John Gruber / Daring Fireball:

Google Mobile Uses Private iPhone APIs  —  Google’s just-released and much-publicized update to their Google Mobile iPhone app features some very clever interaction design for the voice search feature.  There is an on-screen button you can tap to initiate a voice search manually, but …

Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:

Microsoft, labels try to revive subscriptions  —  With fewer consumers than hoped for signing up for all-you-can-eat music subscriptions, Microsoft and the record industry are trying to make the option more appealing.  —  As of Wednesday, those who pay for the $14.95 a month Zune Pass subscription …

The Official Google Blog:

Lively no more  —  In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways.  Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it’s the best way to create groundbreaking products …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

SnapTell: Instant Product Lookup From The iPhone.  You Want This.  —  If you have an iPhone, you’ll probably want to check out SnapTell Explorer, a free application now available on the App Store.  The premise is simple: take a photo of the cover of any CD, DVD, book, or video game …

Mitchell / Mitchell’s Blog:

Sustainability in Uncertain Times  —  Today we are posting our audited financial statements and tax form for 2007.  As in past years, I’ll use this event as an opportunity to review both our financial status and our overall effectiveness in moving the mission forward.  —  Financial