Sometimes it feels like I am the only one in the world who is not into Foursquare . Or at least the only one in Silicon Valley. Or at least the only one who works for TechCrunch.

And why not? The iPod touch has always been positioned as a non-phone version of the current iPhone, though the hardware hasn’t always been completely in parallel.

Back in June, I sat down with Ustream CEO John Ham , who talked about the site’s rapid growth and its plans to expand. At the time, Ham told me that one of Ustream’s key strategies was to foster its relationship with the entertainment industry

If you are going to launch a new location app, creating an anti-Foursquare is probably not a bad idea. About a week ago, a Qualcomm-incubated project called Neer quietly launched on the Android market, and has been downloaded more than 10,000 times since then. Neer is a free, location-sharing app designed for private sharing between family members and people with close, real-world relationships

It’s often overlooked now, but the origin of Twitter’s 140-character limit was so that tweets could fit into SMS messages (which have a 160 character limit — room is needed for usernames). Today, Twitter has a new feature that returns them to their SMS roots: Fast Follow

[Editor's Note: The following article presents analysis from Inside Facebook Gold , our research and data membership service tracking Facebook's traffic growth and demographic landscape in global markets.] Now that Facebook has crossed the 500 million user mark and Google appears serious about building its own social platform, the stakes continue to grow for all parts of Facebook’s business: user growth and engagement, Platform growth and Credits, and advertising growth. As Facebook seeks to maintain focus and execution speed across the company, what will be the key themes for the company during the second half of 2010? The virtual goods economy is continuing to grow on the Facebook Platform, and Facebook’s Credits rollout is continuing to shift market dynamics – we expect things to look quite different in six months.  At the same time, Facebook is still deriving the vast majority of its revenues from its advertising business, despite the slow rollout of advertising platform tools to developers

The state Attorneys General are busy today. In addition to the Washington AG hitting up Intelius with a fine and injunction for its years-long post transaction marketing scams, the Attorneys General from thirty three states, plus the AG Guam and the AG of the Northern Mariana Islands (wherever that is) have entered into an agreement with Topix to stop their $20 fee for expedited review of inappropriate content. This is content that individuals or entities find to be offensive or damaging.

Well, it’s official . The Washington Attorney General is one of the first government entities to do more than yell about post transaction marketing scams like the ones we’ve been writing about at Intelius for years now. A Consent Decree filed in the King County Superior Court in Washington requires the payment of $1.3 million in fines by Intelius

It’s been several days since Wikileaks went from being an obscure whistle-blower Web site to one that has attracted international attention, not to mention condemnation. The latest meme going around right now is that, Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief and de facto “face” of Wikileaks, has lost his standing with people, organizations, and governments that otherwise would be on his side, all things being equal. Even more pronounced: the U.S.

Yes, OKCupid’s data confirms our suspicions , iPhone users do “do it” more, at a rate of about 2x that of Android users. Perhaps this is because the Android has an easily accessible porn app store ? Presumably iPhone users are better at getting their kicks in real life