Short Version: Like Duckie from Sixteen Candles , Palm has been the perennial third choice. Even in its late heyday, when the Treo still ruled the airwaves and the iPhone was a faint glimmer in Apple’s eye, they got the short end of it with consumers and critics.

As a non-ashamed Windows user and straight up Rdio fan, this makes me happy. Rdio has expanded its product suite with a native app for Windows XP, Vista, and 7

As Mike Arrington wrote back in April , it can sometimes feel like certain photo-sharing websites have more of a hostage-taking approach to their business models than a “lets-please-the-customer” model. The photo-sharing experience then effectively becomes synonymous with platform lock-in — if you try to leave, you may not be able to take your images with you.

Back in March, Google officially started rolling out the +1 Button  in its search results, allowing users to vote up the pages they found most useful.

Andreessen Horowitz is announcing today that economist, former US Treasury Secretary and former President of Harvard Larry Summers is joining the firm as a special advisor. Beyond his well known academic and political credentials, Marc Andreessen was quick to point out that Summers has nerd cred too: He was admitted at MIT at the age of 16 to study physics. Summers will be part time, acting in an advisory role exclusive to the firm.

You know what  isn’t cool ? $35 million isn’t cool … So in a move that makes truth stranger than fiction, Justin Timberlake, who played Facebook president Sean Parker in a movie called  The Social Network , has taken an  ownership stake  in a real life social network as part of News Corp.’s Myspace sale.

The fact that HP is considering licensing webOS isn’t exactly news — HP head honcho Leo Apotheker said as much in an interview weeks ago. What is news, however, is that such licensing deals might already be in their early stages. At least, that’s what we’re gathering from this Bloomberg piece , where Apotheker is quoted as saying HP is already in talks with “a number of companies” regarding putting webOS on their devices.

If you are part of the Tumblr Nation, and a growing number of you are, then you will want to download Tumblr’s new iPhone app , redesigned from the ground up with a new interface. It loads up your Tumblr Dashboard stream, but the post button brings up six simple icons for each post type: text, photo, link, quote, audio, and video.And then, of course, you can post photos or videos right from your phone. New features include support for multiple Tumblogs, landscape editing, replying to messages, and saving drafts.

Facebook has partnered with American Express to let AmEx cardholders redeem their Membership Rewards points for Facebook Ads credit.

Due to a sales tax measure recently passed in CA state legislature and on its way to be signed by Governor Jerry Brown, Amazon has sent all participants in its California Amazon Associates program the below email, warning of the termination of the program. Amazon’s Associates program allows site owners to monetize off of referral links to Amazon, paying Affiliates if readers click on a link and subsequently buy an Amazon product. If the law passes, California will treat Amazon Affiliates the same as retailers with brick and mortar stores, and impose sales tax.