This is the A2SM Link Post for December 4th:

• Apple in Talks to Acquire Lala: Report – GigaOM – Apple is on the verge of acquiring streaming music site Lala.com, known for its 10-cent streaming songs and digital music locker service, CNet is reporting. Terms aren’t being disclosed, but the report implies that an agreement is in place, with only a final sign-off remaining to complete the deal.
• Top 5 Digg Milestones in the Last 5 Years – As of today, Digg is five years old. Think about that: that’s around 1825 days of story submissions, front page wrangling, and explosive growth. Hell, Digg is older than Twitter and YouTube.
• YouTube and Universal’s Vevo Music Service to Add Last.fm – Next week will see the launch of the Vevo premium content music video service from Google and Universal Music Group, slated to bring Universal’s extensive video assets into one new destination.
• Twoddler: The Baby Toy That Twitters – Earlier this year, we looked at devices that are integrating Twitter in remarkable ways, from enabling your plants to tweet when they need water to automated updates from bakeries when stuff comes fresh out of the oven.
• Facebook Looks to Kill Beacon For Good With $9.5 Million Settlement – We’re finally coming to the bitter end of Facebook’s erstwhile Beacon program, which shut down completely in September after user complaints of privacy violations.
• Sexy TwitPics Become Vogue Fashion Spread [PICS] – Love it or hate it, we’ve become an oversharing society that capitalizes on the convenience of mobile devices to point, shoot and publish our lives to the Web. The December issue of Vogue Italia captures this digital phenomenon with a spread by Stephen Meisel inspired by Twitter and TwitPic.
• Latest Droid Ad Mocks iPhone’s Beauty, Tiara Wearing Habits [VIDEO] – In their latest Droid Does TV ad, Verizon and Motorola clearly mock the iPhone as a self-obsessed beauty queen that may be pretty on the outside, but slow on the inside.