Around the Web 6.26.08: Joss Stone and shifting friendships among Slide, Facebook, MySpace and Meebo
-- Grammy winner Joss Stone, pictured at right, wants to share more music with her friends -- and far less with the music industry. Torrentfreak
-- Has Slide had a falling out with Facebook? The popular social network dumps top application TopFriends. TechCrunch
-- Speaking of friends dumped by Facebook... AllThingsD
-- Oh, but Meebo is a Facebook friend with benefits. VentureBeat
-- Of course, MySpace is always trying to make new friends. CNet
-- Xobni is finding new ways to help you be friendlier with your LinkedIn friends. TechCrunch
-- But Xobni is starting to get a lot of competition from friends. ReadWriteWeb
-- Danny Sullivan says Ask.com still can't compete for friends, no matter how hard it tries. Search Engine Land
-- But Microsoft, that big ol' friendly teddy bear squeeze of a software giant, is the friendliest of them all. AllThingsD
-- If you don't count Google, which is very friendly with its new CFO and ponies up the money to prove it. Mercury News
-- And here's a prediction of an unlikely friendship between Google and Microsoft. Conversation Marketing
-- Fear not, everyone's favorite Subway friend, Jared Fogle, is not in fact dead, as reported on Twitter. Web Scout
-- But the mouse just might be. So long, old friend. Datamation
-- So might the remote control. Use your face instead. NetworkWorld
-- No friends? No problem. You can be mine. Check out this cartoon I found on my FriendFeed. It's the next big thing. Geek and Poke
-- Jessica Guynn
Photo by Lori Shepler / Los Angeles Times
