The other day I was talking to an old friend.

Back in February 2009 we covered the launch of DevHub , a startup that helps users build their own blogs and websites. At the time the site creator was pretty straightforward, with a focus on monetization through some syndication deals.

Oh, Internet, is there anything you can’t do? iChatr, a new app for the iPhone, is essentially Chatroulette for the iPhone

It appears that Foursquare has just crossed the 2 million users mark this morning. The location based social network has been growing fast, adding 100,000 users per week

I doubt that Steve Jobs has ever asked Apple customers what type of products they want , or that he cares about what they need . Jobs believed that if he developed a mobile phone that plays music and surfs the web, he could create both the want and need .

In a slightly odd blog post published Friday night, Condé Nast-owned news recommendation service reddit calls for help . The company would love to hire engineers to complement the current technical team, which has been struggling with site sluggishness and outages lately and would also like to add some new features to reddit at some point. However, they write, although the company is owned by a mega media corp with billions of dollars in revenue , there’s isn’t any budget to hire people and add more resources

In a move that suggests a tad of insecurity on Apple’s behalf, the iPad maker is apparently buying Google AdWords ads targeting potential buyers of the Dell Streak , the Android-powered micro-tablet or netpad or whatever it is people cooler than me call the device.

I’ve had a very full schedule recently.

An interesting post just went up on the Twitter Engineering blog. Usually, that blog contains posts that are more interesting to developers working on Twitter’s platform

Canadian Firm, German Govt File Against Facebook – Toronto-based Merchant Law Group filed paperwork seeking class action status in a lawsuit against Facebook this week claiming Facebook mishandled user data during the most recent privacy changes, and seeking the sum of the money the company made as a result of making user data public in that change. It’s not clear how strong the firm’s particular arguments are; what is clear is that some law firms pursue such cases when they think they can get money or at least publicity out of their efforts