• A fairly quiet weekend on the technology front, but Google remains at the heart of the headlines. The company is furiously trying to rework the terms of its controversial Google Books deal with publishers, according to the New York Times, after the US Department of Justice was the latest to weigh in on the arguments.
• MIT students working on mining data from social networks have discovered that it's possible to detect whether you're gay by examining your network of friends, the Boston Globe reports. It's partly a statement of the obvious that gay men are likely to have more gay friends, but the fact that social networks can uncover certain facts about you certainly opens up interesting privacy questions (compare with this study from Cambridge that I wrote about earlier this year.
• Your post-weekend reading: Jason Fried of 37Signals certainly raised some interesting issues in taking a pop at Mint.com for selling itself to big rival Intuit for $170m (a deal that reminded me of Amazon buying Zappos. Fried gave the company's executives a bit of a pass, though, blaming instead venture capital - which also got a drubbing from Vivek Wadhwa over on TechCrunch. Both interesting pieces worth reading, though I feel like they pick their arguments quite selectively.
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