Tumblr Screws Hipster Underclass to Appease Hipster Overlords at Pitchfork: Social networking usernames are the new domain name. (via Danah Boyd)

Q&A: Jobs and Apple Execs on Tracking Down the Facts About iPhones and Location: Definitely worth reading, if you're curious about this iPhone tracking issue. I wish the full audio was posted online, however.

Exit interview: Jaiku's Jyri Engeström: Great post-mortem on a failed Google acquisition.

Netflix Is Killing BitTorrent in The US: I have to agree with this conclusion: the best way to fight piracy is to make it easy to access content, not through draconian DRM systems.

Apple posts iPhone location tracking Q&A: it’s complicated, iOS update coming soon: Nilay Patel on Apple's "Q&A on Location Data":

"Apple says the iPhone doesn’t track your location, but it certainly appears that the net result of updating a “database of WiFi hotspots and cell towers around your current location” with user-specific timestamps comes awfully close to… tracking your location."

I had the exact some thought when I read Apple's document. Hopefully, as part of Apple's pledge to better explain things, the timestamp issue will eventually be more fully explained.