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More from TechCrunch today as they have posted that Facebook, Google and Plaxo have joined the DataPortability Workgroup. Not quite sure what impact this will have, but it’s definitely worth following.

A couple of days ago we had big news about Canadian wireless spectrum - today, the news is from South of the border in the US. Google has long been rumoured to have been preparing to enter the auction, and today we learn that Google [has confirmed their] Spectrum Bid. The rumour mill will now turn to wild speculation about Google’s intentions for wireless spectrum should they succeed in winning at auction.

No transgression — outrageous reaction : Real transgression — measured and proper reaction. Strange day on the interwebs.

Google has bought Feedburner for $100M, according to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. This deal has been rumoured for a while, but apparently now it’s a done deal.

I’m a Feedburner user, but frankly I have no real opinion about this news. I don’t think Google can change a lot about the terms of service - I doubt they could block feed-ads from other services, for example - so the move will likely go mostly unnoticed by users except for the superior integration we’ll see with Google’s other services for web publishers. Time will tell…

has the story that protagonist Evan Williams broke on his own site yesterday evening: Odeo Bought Back From Investors. I think it’s great that he was able to do this before more money became involved than he could deal with responsibly - because this is clearly what was needed in order to get things back on track.

Frank Gruber published an article called The State of Online Feed Readers. I have never found an online reader I like very much - and I have tried - but this article gives a good overview of what’s out there. Right now my personal choice is NewsGator Online, because of its synch capabilities with NetNewsWire.

I don’t understand the hype about Rojo, which I find to be needlessly crippled by the fact that it tries way too hard to be viral. In several places in Rojo the user is presented with the ability to add a friend’s email address to make them a “contact”. Uh, right. There’s not a chance I’m going to put an email address in there and have them spammed by yet another such service. Rojo does give the ability to search for contact, but without really robust discoverability, the whole “contacts” business (in Rojo and many others) is pretty lame.