Zuckerberg interview: What went wrong
I want to get video of the uncomfortable keynote with Mark Zuckerberg and Business Week’s Sarah Lacy at SXSW today so I can use it as an object lesson in my journalism classes about how not do conduct an interview." Buzz Machine

Ex-Googler Launches Search Engine Community, Topicle
Former Google Product Manger, Steffen Mueller, has launched Topicle, a new search engine community. The service, which went live today, uses a model similar to that of Wikipedia, allowing anyone to contribute to the creation and enhancement of their own vertical search engines. - ReadWriteWeb

Watch Out FriendFeed: Socialthing! Is Even Easier to Use
There are a bazillion social network aggregators out there (Mike attempted to round up some of the most notable ones here). FriendFeed is the most visible of them all for two main reasons: it was founded a group of ex-Googlers and, as a consequence, benefits from a clean and easy-to-use design. - TechCrunch

Gmail Scam Signal Of A Much Bigger Security Issue
This weekend news came that a Gmail archive service called G-Archiver, which backs up all of your Gmail emails to your hard drive, was actually the front for a scam - hard coded into the application was a “feature” that sent every user’s email address and password to the creator’s own email account, giving him access to all of their Gmail messages. - TechCrunch

A Facebook Application To Find Blood Donors Fast
About 43,000 pints of blood are donated each day by Canadians and Americans, which help the 4.5 million patients who need that blood transfusions every year. Total donations aren’t adequate to satisfy demand, though, and shortages occur regularly. - TechCrunch

Digg Users Are Doing Their Best To Kill An Acquisition
Digg users tend to get pissed off about a lot of things. Any story about Microsoft, for example. Or anything that criticizes Apple. Usually, the ability to bury stories about non-mob-approved topics, combined with the comment area under headlines, is enough of a release valve to settle things down. - TechCrunch

Wetpaint Adds Friend Feeds, and Social Networking Tools
Wetpaint wikis are taking more steps to become like fully-functioning social networks, with the release of several new features that are typically found on social networking sites, moving attention away from the enterprise solutions Wetpaint has recently been working on. - Mashable

Gigya Gets $9.5M to Grow Widget Ads
Just a few weeks ago, Gigya added some major updates to its ad network, and is seeing some good results from its Wildfire initiative, reporting hundreds of thousands of widget installs per day, tracking over 3 billion widget impressions per month. - Mashable

MySpace Said To Be Ready To Strike Music Deals By March Close
Reports were filed last month by the media concerning MySpace’s purported negotiations with the world’s four largest record labels to gather rights for its own music distribution platform. Today, Joshua Chaffin of the FT talks of learning that those talks may proceed to legitimate agreements among MySpace and at least three of the four labels - Sony BMG, Warner, and EMI - by the end of March. - Mashable

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