Caroline McCarthy / The Social:

Six Apart wrestles the social-media dragon  —  A look at Six Apart’s Blog It, a tool that lets you manage both blogging accounts and messaging services from a single page.  —  (Credit: Six Apart)  —  The Web might have just gotten one step closer to a universal “social dashboard” …

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme Echo-Chamber Problem  —  Many people love to check out automated blog meme aggregator Techmeme throughout the day for the latest in tech news - but a considerable number of other people consider it a self-promoting echo chamber that poisons …

PC World:

Is the Taxman Eyeing ITunes?  —  Dan Moren, Macworld.com  —  The US$0.99 that the iTunes Store charges for individual songs has taken on an almost iconic role in the field of music downloads, becoming what many consider the standard for fair pricing.  While the record labels have long lobbied …

Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:

So exactly who or what is Psystar?  We dig a little..  —  You’ll have noticed the claims of Psystar that it will be selling an “OpenComputer” (smart, avoiding the use of the Apple trademark in the “OpenMac” name it previously used) that will, in effect, be an Apple clone.

Roddy Lindsay / Facebook Blog:

Facebook Lexicon  —  At Facebook we love tools that allow you to see what people around the globe are searching for or discussing on blogs, such as Google Trends or Technorati.  We thought it would be cool to show trends on the public and semi-public forums across Facebook (also known as Walls).

Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:

Facebook is kinda competing with FriendFeed, like it kinda competes with Twitter  —  Update with a response from FriendFeed’s Paul Buchheit, below the article  —  Facebook has just launched a new feature that lets you add actions from other sites to the mini-feed of actions on your profile …

Oracle:

Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory - April 2008  —  A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities.  It also includes non-security fixes that are required (because of interdependencies) by those security patches.

Microsoft:

Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Danger, Incorporates Company Into Premium Mobile Experiences Group  —  New business group strengthens company focus on innovative mobile consumer experiences.  —  Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of Danger, Inc., the company announced today.

Tom Krazit / One More Thing:

Defiant Psystar back selling Leopard computers  —  Psystar is back online selling “white box” Macs with a few subtle changes, and one employee has already played the monopoly card.  —  As you might recall, Psystar’s Web site was overwhelmed Monday after it was found to be selling cheap computers with Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled.

Paul Graham:

Why There Aren’t More Googles  —  Umair Haque wrote recently that the reason there aren’t more Googles is that most startups get bought before they can change the world. … This has a nice sound to it, but it isn’t true.  Google’s founders were willing to sell early on.