Aol (err, us , I guess) will relaunch Aol Mail on Sunday afternoon, we’ve confirmed from sources close to Aol (hah).

Tumblr is attracting a lot of attention right now There is talk of a big funding round in the works and it is making significant hires .

People say that I never say anything bad about the iPhone. Here’s something: its notification system is awful. In particular, I’m talking about the way notifications are managed

We had the chance to interview YouTube Product Manager Hunter Walk at Gigaom’s NewTeeVee conference and talk to him about some of the milestones YouTube has reached since it was founded in 2005 (Warning, my voice is LOUD). Along with the impressive statistic that there are now 50,000 hours of new video uploaded daily ( 35 hours of video uploaded every minute, up from 24 hours a minute a few months ago), Walk revealed that YouTube now boasts over 2 billion video playbacks a day, 150 million of those being on mobile devices. Walk also said that the company’s two main priorities are improving personalization features as well as search. With hundreds of YouTube partners making six figures a year, Walk says that YouTube will be focusing in 2011 on giving its community more tools to create better content, such as a livestreaming functionality for all users as well editing tools and improved ways of finding programming

Zachary Allia is just 26 years old. He’s either really lucky, is a negotiating savant or a combination of both

A few days ago I requested that Facebook finally allow us to download email addresses for all of our friends.

Google is bleeding talent. As companies mature, that tends to happen.

Hey it’s Friday, and usually Fridays are when people send out the “more fun” press releases. Like the one we just got from Commonwealth Toys about the preorder launch of Angry Birds plush toys at Shopangrybirds.com and Toywiz.com . The release said that industrious fans of the world’s #1 selling mobile game might also be able to buy the stuffed birds in limited quantities at Suncoast and FYE retailers in “just a few days,” whatever that means.

Email newsletters may be ready for a comeback. The fact is that despite the communications mechanism being old-school, publishers can put in less effort to get more views in an inbox than on a blog

Between Soundhound and Shazam, I wouldn’t have thought the world was really begging for another service that could identify that song playing on the radio. Sometimes, though, something comes along that solves that problem we didn’t know we had and makes the whole thing worthwhile. You see, Soundhound and Shazam do a great job of identifying tracks.