The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on Facebook’s evolution from a “scrappy start-up to big business” and the opportunities and challenges this development brings with it.

Laptopmag.com has an interview with MSI’s Director of Sales, Andy Tung, in which Tung reveals that MSI’s “internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux. People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don’t know what they get until they open the box. They start playing around with Linux and start realizing that it’s not what they are used to. They don’t want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store. The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks.”

Internetnews.com writes that, according to Ian Amit, director of security research at security vendor Aladdin Knowledge Systems, “

[o]nline thieves have obtained administrative log-in credentials for more than 200,000 Web sites and modified the code of some of these sites to attack users who visit them.  Among the sites impacted is the U.S. Postal Service, though the USPS disputes the claim.”  In addition, says Amit, the hackers consolidated all this stolen information onto one server and are offering login credentials and other information for criminals to exploit on demand.”

The New York Times points out that “[t]he Justice Department’s antitrust investigation of the advertising partnership between Google and Yahoo has revealed the growing resentment and fear of Google’s power among some of the biggest players in the advertising industry — the very customers that Google needs to keep expanding its business.  Some of the leading industry associations and advertising agencies that have come out against the deal have raised concerns that prices will rise. Their anxiety over Google’s increasing dominance of the lucrative and fast-growing search advertising business, and the very fairness of Google’s auction system for pricing search ads, could lead to growing confrontations.  ‘Google and Yahoo claim these are auctions,’ said Robert D. Liodice, chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers.  ‘Many of our marketers don’t necessarily believe that these are real auctions.’”

CNetNews.com reports that “Tokoni, a community site for ‘sharing stories,’ has formally launched after nearly a year of public beta. It has taken investment backing from eBay as well as the auction giant’s founder, Pierre Omidyar, and was founded by former eBay executive Mary Lou Song and Alex Kazim, former president of the eBay-owned Skype. Kazim serves as Tokoni’s CEO.  ‘We created Tokoni to fill the distinct need for an online community where individual stories of life’s experiences have a voice and are valued, and where the collective wisdom of the community is celebrated,’ Kazim said in a release. ‘The growth of social media has enabled people to control how they create, consume, and share content and personal experiences online; however, participation in the social Web is still daunting to the mainstream. Tokoni makes sharing your own story easy.’”