I am still reducing my information overload, and identified yet another place where I was wasting time online: Financial stuff.

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Fur is flying heavy so I’ll just mash all the iPhone 3G rumors and WWDC rumors into one post.

First Photos Of WWDC Lobby: Two banners, one touting OS X Leopard as the world’s most advanced operating system, and OS X iPhone as the world’s most advanced mobile platform. These two statements may explain the two Golden Gate bridges shown in the WWDC invite. It could be as simple as saying, if you are an OS X developer, you have two great platforms to develop for - hence the two bridges going off from one location.

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Time Warner cable is experimenting with metered Internet use, staring in one Texas town. This is a lame development for consumers, and at worst, an abuse of power by a cable company.

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Read this post on TechCrunch. Then watch this video.

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Twitter has been down often over the past few weeks. To their credit, the Twitter team has been way more communicative recently on their company blog, posting warnings about outages, explanations, and even some insight into their search for solutions. Even if this information totally goes over our heads, It’s good to read these updates as it humanizes the company and fosters a relationship with users.

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White iPhone Photographs: These look pretty darned convincing, and show a rounded case with a recessed, round port on the back.

Apple Shooting A Commercial At New York 5th Ave Apple Store: Apple Insider presumes it would be for the 3G iPhone. I wonder if it has something to do with really, really long lines.

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On yesterday’s Elite Tech News Podcast, Louis Gray mentioned importing his recent iTunes purchases into FriendFeed. I spent a little time poking around in iTunes to get this to happen for my iTunes purchases.

Basically, you can allow Apple to send out an RSS feed of your recent iTunes purchases. You can then use that RSS feed wherever you like, say in your favorite feed reader, the sidebar of your blog, or share it in FriendFeed.

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Yet another Elite Tech News Podcast is in the can, and this week the guest was the inimitable Robert Scoble, who chimed in on the hot subjects of FriendFeed and Twitter.

Topics covered were FriendFeed adding Rooms, Twitter not enforcing its TOS, the 3G iPhone, cable continuing to charge more. As for the latter point, several of us are finding cable alternatives like Hulu or downloading video content to a computer or Apple TV increasingly appealing.

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June 9 is right around the corner, so I’ll revive the “Apple Rumor Round Up” theme from here on out. As is expected when an Apple event is soon upon us, the rumors will surely get increasingly wild and wacky as the keynote date nears, and I intend to keep track of as many as possible, since it’s my intent to purchase one of these new iPhones as soon as they’re available.

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In the past week, I have been ignoring Twitter, and noticed several things:

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