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4:05 PM ET, April 23, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Amateur Hour Over At Twitter? — It doesn't really matter if Twitter's Chief Architect Blaine Cook was fired or resigned. The important thing is that he's gone now, and this gives Twitter the opportunity to hire someone (or a team) who may actually be able to scale the nearly two year old service and keep it live.

Discussion: STARTUP CHATTER, The Last Podcast, SmoothSpan Blog, The Social Times, Internet Marketing … and Brian Sullivan's Random …

Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:

Lead Architect Blaine Cook Out At Twitter — Blaine Cook, lead architect at red-hot, sometimes-down Twitter, has left the company. In an email to SAI, Blaine describes his departure at an “amicable” one. — I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It's an amicable change …

Discussion: Between the Lines, PDA, Webware.com, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Valleywag and The Social Times

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Twitter-storm: Blaine leaves, blame flies

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Forbes:

Apple Buys Chip Designer — Apple has agreed to spend $278 million in cash to buy a boutique microprocessor design company that could create a chip for its flagship iPhone, and possibly iPod products as well. — The 150-person chip company, P.A. Semi, was founded in 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl …

John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Apple disses Intel's Atom, buys PowerPC designer P.A. Semi

Discussion: BetaNews, Digital Trends and One More Thing

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple buys P.A. Semi chip designer, Intel says wha?

Discussion: Guardian Unlimited

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:

Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh — Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. — (Here's a bunch of screen shots of what testers can expect to see when Microsoft kicks off its Live Mesh tech preview later this week.)

Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:

Full Text of Ray Ozzie Mesh Memo — As we wrote last night, the new Live Mesh service that just launched as an invite only “technology preview” is Microsoft's attempt to tie all of our data together. Live Mesh synchronizes data across multiple devices (currently just Windows computers …

Discussion: Guardian Unlimited and last100

Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Live Mesh - The Version You Can Understand

Discussion: Ars Technica, Channel 10, Webware.com, TechCrunch and Digital Trends

Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:

Comcast: AT&T's U-Verse is messing with our network — Back in the pre-fiber days, cable and phone companies competed for broadband and voice customers. With Verizon and AT&T rolling out fiber networks, competition has come to the television set—and the fight sometimes gets ugly.

Discussion: NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider, Homotron.net and Gizmodo

Karl / DSLreports:

Sources: Comcast To Sever Involvement In Pivot - Memo obtained by BBR shows mutual decision to part ways... Sources within Comcast tell us that the company has decided to stop offering Sprint Pivot wireless service to new and existing customers starting this week, though an official announcement has yet to be made.

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and Electronista

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Comcast Is Serious About Wireless

Discussion: IP Democracy

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Facebook Finishes Chat Integration, Makes This Blogger's Life Miserable — I made the mistake of leaving Facebook open on my desktop as I stepped out for the evening on Tuesday night. I returned to a complete mess of Facebook Chat messages. Some users got access to Facebook Chat as early as April 6.

Discussion: Carsonified, broadstuff and Lonely CEO Media

Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:

Facebook Chat Now Works For Everyone — I'm not an avid Facebook user, but I have been checking it every now and then for the promised chat application, and as of today it seems to finally be available for everyone. And, although I have certain reservations about yet another web based chat application, I must say I love it.

Discussion: bub.blicio.us, Lifehacker, Inside Facebook, WebProNews and MarketingShift

Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:

Ballmer: Microsoft Can Live Without Yahoo — At least publicly, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is totally unmoved by Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) earnings. Speaking in Milan, reports Bloomberg, Ballmer said: “We are offering a lot of money... If Yahoo's shareholders like it, that's great.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Reuters, CNET News.com, Search Engine Land, Digital Daily, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Alley Insider and Valleywag

Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Trading Down; Still Wondering If Earnings Will Force A Higher Bid?

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, Tech Trader Daily and CNET News.com

Royal Pingdom:

Google domain names - the funny, strange and surprising — Google owns a whole bunch of domain names other than the obvious ones like google.com, blogger.com and gmail.com. We here at Pingdom decided to find out which ones, with some truly surprising results. — We only looked at .com domain names, and found thousands.

Discussion: WebProNews, TechCrunch, Valleywag, AppScout and CenterNetworks

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Privacy Disaster At Twitter: Direct Messages Exposed (Update: GroupTweet Is Likely Culprit) — Twitter user Orli Yakuel, with 650 followers, had a nasty surprise this morning - her direct messages (private messages between two Twitter users) showed up in her normal Twitter stream …

Discussion: Download Squad, CenterNetworks and Mark Evans

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Discussion: PC World and MacDailyNews

Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:

Laptop searches at the border: No reason? No problem — Here's the scenario: you return from an overseas trip and find yourself facing US Customs officers in an airport. They see your laptop, demand that you turn it on, then take it from you and start rifling through its contents.

Discussion: Business Technology

James Niccolai / InfoWorld:

IBM turns server sideways for Web 2.0 build-out — IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked Web 2.0 sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday. — Called the iDataPlex, the server is designed to compete …

Discussion: Ars Technica, ReadWriteWeb, The Register, Between the Lines, conferences.oreilly.com, CNET News.com, Computerworld, GigaOM and Earth2Tech

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