Tech news links 17/05/08

Google's Friend Connect launched this week with big claims to socialise every website, from BBC Online

Did Twitter break China earthquake news?, from BBC Online

Techcrunch confirmed Comcast bought Plaxo this week

Disqus and Seesmic launch video comments, from a VC

Twitter app Twitbuzz

Facebook raises $100m to expand servers from Mark Sweeney at the Guardian

Interesting take on our generation of Web heads, from Readwriteweb

Engaging post on Web 2.0/social media by Dennis Howlett who works entirely "in the cloud"

Jack Dangermond of ESRI Inc gave a keynote speech at Where 2.0 this week on the future of GIS, here he is interviewed on Government Technology earlier in the year giving his vision