Asdf / The Twitter Engineering Blog:
The Anatomy of a Whale  —  By Ed Ceaser (@asdf) and Nick Kallen (@nk)  —  Sometimes it's really hard to figure out what's causing problems in a web site like Twitter.  But over time we have learned some techniques that help us to solve the variety of problems that occur in our complex web site.

Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Yahoo Launches SQL Interface to Twitter  —  Every time I switch to jQuery, Yahoo's YUI libraries seem to keep luring me back.  Just yesterday, Yahoo added one more tool to its arsenal of YQL libraries that actually makes the Twitter API intuitive, giving me another reason yet to switch back to yui …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Slams Google Buzz  —  “Busy people don't want another social network, what they want is the convenience of aggregation.  We've done that.  Hotmail customers have benefitted from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and 75 other partners since 2008.”  - Microsoft statement on Google Buzz.

Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Google Buzz Launches  —  Google shared more details Tuesday on Google Buzz. … Buzz, which adds status updates to Gmail, could step up the search giant's competition with social hubs Facebook and Twitter.  —  Could Buzz be a Twitter-killer?  A recap of Google's press conference …

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Bubble Motion Launches Twitter-Like Voice Blogging Service For Mobile Phones  —  Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space.  The startup is launching Bubbly, a voice-blogging social network built for mobile phones.

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Google won't give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut tomorrow  —  OK, I've given you the reasons why Google will be successful this time, but why won't what they announce tomorrow give Twitter or Facebook a buzz cut?  Funny aside, I found this photo of Matt Mullenweg (the entrepreneur behind Wordpress) …

Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Must-have features for Twitter-killing  —  In October 2009, after 2.5 years of using Twitter every day, I wrote a piece that explained the limits of Twitter that we'll have to look past Twitter to see solved, because Twitter doesn't seem to be trying to solve them.

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Launching Twitter-Killer For Gmail!  (GOOG)  —  Google could launch a Twitter-killer as soon as this week, the Wall Street Journal reports.  —  Google already allows Gmail users to update their status.  The prompt reads, “let people know what you're up to, or share links to photos, videos, and Web pages.”

RealNetworks.com:
RealPlayer for the Mac Makes It Easy to Move Video Onto Mobile Phones, iPods and Other Devices  —  RealPlayer SP Beta for the Mac available for free beginning today  —  RealNetworks® (Nasdaq: RNWK) released RealPlayer® SP Beta for Mac today at www.real.com, a free software download …