Hear that noise? That’s the sound of a hundred press releases and announcements being ground to a pulp, the pulp being formed into a sort of hollow, vapid blog arrow, and that arrow being aimed squarely at Techmeme . I don’t know, but ever since some of our most prolific writers left the blog game to either a) become entrepreneurs or b) become investors, the tech blogosphere has been quiet — too quiet.

The initial public offering fever that seemed to be sweeping over the tech industry has cooled noticeably in the weeks since Facebook’s much-buzzed-about (and potentially botched ) stock market debut . But it’s not a deep freeze in IPO land quite yet.

Omni-social reader MyPad has just released updates that lets its three million daily users browse and interact with Instagram photos in addition to reading and posting to Facebook and Twitter. MyPad’s free and premium iPhone and iPad apps now let you browse Popular and your network’s Instagrams plus leave feedback; batch upload, filter, and edit photos for publishing to Facebook ; access Twitter DMs, search, and trending topics; check in, listen to free music from Hype Machine, and more.

Earlier this morning, Google critic and Nextag CEO Jeffrey Katz used an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal to accuse Google of behaving like a monopoly. Google quickly responded with a line-by-line criticism of Katz’s arguments.

The iPad is a wonderful device to watch videos on, and a number of startups are aiming to provide users with interesting new ways to discover the best videos to watch. Most of these apps — like Showyou , or Squrl , or Fanhattan , or Shelby.tv — have some sort of a social discovery component, which allows users to see what their friends are watching, and conversely, share other videos with them

Facebook launched two game-changing features for mobile app developers this week: App Center and mobile-only Sponsored Stories . App Center’s “send to mobile” button is an efficient way to get users to download a mobile app after learning about it on a desktop, and Sponsored Stories offer unparalleled targeting options for advertising on mobile devices

Everything is in readiness for our upcoming Philly meet-up where we’ll imbibe fine beverages, eat some DiNics, and talk about what you’re working on. The goal of this meet-up is networking and pitches so come prepared with a thirty second pitch and please, please, please no paper

Gillmor Gang – Danny Sullivan, John Taschek, Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording has concluded

Here’s a bit of Friday eye-candy for you. It was almost one year ago to the day that Steve Jobs appeared in front of the Cupertino City Council , pitching his vision of a visually striking, spaceship-esque Apple campus that would accomodate 12,000 employees. Apple’s original set of plans for their new campus tore around the internet last August, and the city of Cupertino has just released the company’s fourth set of revised files that dive into a bit more detail than those that have already made the rounds

Icenium is a brand-new integrated cloud environment (get it? i-c-e not i-d-e = Icenium) for mobile application development.