Things I read that I found interesting and worthy of comment July 9th through July 10th:

• New Best Buy PS3 Bundle Brings MGS4, Killzone 2 – I need to make sure I don't accidentally enter a Best Buy this weekend as this could cause me to weaken and pick one up. This is effectively a $100-$120 price drop if you like both of these games. I'm definitely a shooter fan, so KillZone 2 sounds good and I'm curious to see if MGS4 is as awfully over-rated as every other iteration has been. Both games are supposed to really show the graphical prowess of the PS3, so that would be good. I will NOT buy a PS3, the economy is not good, I will NOT buy a PS3, the economy is not good…
• How FriendFeed Could Become the Ultimate Social Media Tracking Service – Hmmm, I haven't looked into FriendFeed as early on my impression was that it was just a MySpace and Twitter aggregator of some type. Sounds much more powerful than that from this info, so time to check it out.
• How to Install Chrome and Chromium Side-by-Side (So You Can Play with Extensions!) – Mostly a bookmark for myself to check more into later. I really like Chrome and probably do 60% of my browser related stuff in it. It is wicked fast, blowing FireFox away. As I've stated in previous posts, I'm not a big extensions fan, but certainly would like a solid ad-blocker and perhaps a few other things as well.
• Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next – Like I said… lots of better interfaces for tweets than Twitter. Funny that Twitter should consider buying one of these, perhaps the other way would be for some of the most popular "add-on" sites that figure out a revenue model should get together and buy Twitter.
• Ads Spotted on Twitter.com – Did You Notice? – No, I didn't notice since I never actually visit the twitter site. I use it as a transmission mechanism, not a destination I visit or a place I go to for content. Even if I was using Twitter as a content receiving mechanism, I still wouldn't use their site as there are probably a dozen better interfaces. They should just figure out a revenue stream for their communications network and trash the idea of the site altogether. Probably just me and there's a ton of money to be made from the youngun's who don't know any better… yet.
• Live Blog: The Facebook Privacy Conference Call (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch) – I'm looking forward to seeing how this works in actual practice. Not enough information on what the "custom" setting is. This for every post or something you can set up in advance and pick from a list? That's what I want.

  My concept would be that I am different things to different people and consequently there are different things I wish to share with people that know me under any given context; family, work, long-time friends, gaming friends, public. If I can go through my friends list and put them into these categories and then when I post select which categories can see any given item, then I'm very happy. This would enable to move to a single FB account instead of managing the two I have now. One for friends and very close family where I post multiple things nearly every day and one for everyone else to which I post maybe every other week, just because I don't have the time to really participate in two places.

  I hope that's how it is going to work and if not, I'll continue with the mechanism I have today where most of the people that know me really don't get to participate in my postings and really, they aren't missing anything, but I'm sure FB would like to see more interaction and hence create more stickiness and hours "on-site" with them.