Silicon Alley Insider (Friday)
Several marketers pledge seven-figure spends with Google TV [PaidContent] What it's like to work for Twitter [PaidContent] Google wants to renew MySpace deal for $50 - $75 million per year, down from $300 million [TechCrunch] Razorfish closes two offices [PaidContent] When is a $1.6 billion merger ...

Silicon Alley Insider (Friday)
Several marketers pledge seven-figure spends with Google TV [PaidContent] What it's like to work for Twitter [PaidContent] Google wants to renew MySpace deal for $50 - $75 million per year, down from $300 million [TechCrunch] Razorfish closes two offices [PaidContent] When is a $1.6 billion merger ...

Techdirt (Friday)
There are plenty of places for people to make free VoIP calls through their PCs these days, while the cost of phone-based VoIP service keeps falling towards zero. Given this, it's a little surprising to see the companies behind some online video games and virtual worlds planning to start charging us...

Techmeme (Friday)

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Easily Create Your Own Feed Bundles Of Joy With Google Reader  —  Perhaps the biggest barrier to entry to using a feed reader for most people is building up a collection of good feeds.  Sure, you can import someone else's OPML file, but most peo...

TechCrunch (Friday)
Streamy is downright awesome. When our own Leena Rao wrote a review following their launch two months ago, she nailed it when she wrote it was essentially a 'personalized news service and social network that combines elements of Google Reader with FriendFeed'. That's exactly what it is, and it just ...

AP (Friday)
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) -- Muslim clerics debating the exploding popularity of Facebook in Indonesia said Friday that followers could use the networking site to connect with friends or for work - but not to gossip or flirt....