Twenty-five years after tech geeks were liberated from the PC Empire, they started turning on Apple this week for its technological tyranny. Douglas Rushkoff on how David became Goliath.

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WSJ wants to kill LinkedIn, kills Originality instead.

What happened to original thought? What happened to being innovative? What the hell is going on the interwebs these days?

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The CrunchPad, the brain child of TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, is coming in November. Besides looking awesome, this thing looks like a thin piece of paper with a wonderful screen that lets you surf the web by WiFi or 3G. Very cool.

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Status Search is a new site that searches your friends' statuses on Facebook and Twitter.

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Publishing stolen documents

Today, Techcrunch.com is posting documents they received form an anonymous hacker who said he got them from Twitter.com. The documents include financial estimates, pass codes and meeting minutes. Techcrunch is defending the publishing of these documents, stating it is news.

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Some people use Twitter to organize street protests in Tehran. Some people use it to share their daily thoughts and observation. But it is increasingly becoming clear that one of the most common ways people use Twitter is as a social information filter and link distributor.

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Israeli Web startups haven't lost their mojo - TechCrunch reports on the 10 Israeli Web startups selected to tour the Valley later this month during the California Israel Chamber of Commerce's annual Israel Web Tour of Silicon Valley.

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Say what you will about Mike Arrington... he's a smart guy. I'm glad he took time off for himself.

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I love what I do when I'm not hiding from some crazy @!$%#er who wants to kill me or being spat on by some unhappy European entrepreneur we didn't write about.

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(Newser) – For those who are sick of shelling out to send Facebook friends cupcake icons and virtual champagne bottles for occasions, the startup Give Real has the answer.

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This looks to be a very cool social network exclusively for politics. While still very new, this site seems to be on the cutting edge of a new era of niche social networks.

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Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention when he noted that "over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf their activities on behalf of outside c …

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Twitter isn't for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it's hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it.

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Today at Techcrunch we announced that we are building our own web tablet hardware device. This all stems back from a conversation a few weeks ago when we were discussing the ultimate web browsing/cloud computing client hardware.

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I'm tired of waiting - I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen web tablet to surf the web. Nothing fancy like the Dell latitude XT, which costs $2,500. Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel.

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Twitter makeover in the offing?

Could Twitter be about to unveil a new look? At the time of writing Twitter is down for maintenance.

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Apple's iPhone App Store is now live, several hours ahead of its rumored 9 am PST launch. To access it, download iTunes 7.7 here. Once iTunes has upgraded, you can access the App Store here.

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Now, the tables have been turned on the Associated Press, as internet news superblog TechCrunch (who have called on fellow bloggers to ban all AP content), is 'demanding justice' after the AP quoted a hefty 22 words from one of its posts. Poetic justice, indeed.

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Excerpt: I am not interested in just chasing a Web 2.0 dragon. After toiling away in 1866, it feels too much like déja vu.

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BuddyTV, home to one of the web's largest television-oriented communities, has raised $6 million in Series B funding from Madrona Venture Group. This round brings BuddyTV's total funding to over $9 million.

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E-MAIL has become the bane of some people's professional lives.

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Have a complaint with cable company Comcast? Don't bother calling their helpline: Instead write a blog entry or, better still, send a 'tweet' or two via Twitter threatening to "expend significant energy over the next three weeks trashing Comcast." That's the lesson ta …

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At SWSWi, one of my many hallway conversations revolved around the trouble of getting profiled on TechCrunch. My fellow "mobile panelist" (thanks Chris Heuer for that term) said something like:

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I am sad that this had to blow up to the point where we are publicly suing Facebook over the matter. We'll be filing the lawsuit tomorrow along with a related civil case for assault and battery.

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