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Trust Australians to take a frivolous and whimsical web service that was starting to take itself too seriously and get really immature with it.
:D
Bless each and every ███████ one of you, you █████!

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… Is Facebook doomed? – Scobleizer
… Facebook fatigue – visitors level off in the US – Techcrunch
… Facebook’s UK usership drops . Just temporary? – Mashable!
… Like, Facebook is so over, dude – mathewingram.com/work
… and the article that started it all, Facebook. Back to the kids? – BBC News
Hmmm. Shiny new thing not so [...]

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Part way into the new year is usually a pretty good time to reflect back upon the predictions made for the upcoming months.  With a bit of luck last year’s hype has begun to fade away and some patterns of how things will pan out begin to emerge. 
A great weakness of the internet [...]

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The Commentariat can’t decide if Google’s Android mobile phone operating system is gathering steam or lagging behind.
Warfare is declared between a mobile browser that doesn’t even have an alpha and a much loved but cut down version of a market leader (and the video of the latest version of Opera Mobile makes it look [...]

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The post-Christmas sales are always an excellent place to pick up a bargain to two.  A sneak peak into the Backpack pages of some of tech’s leading lights yielded some surprising results…
 

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/01/wow-microsoft-offers-446-billion-to-acquire-yahoo/
 

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1102509
 

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/sun_acquires_mysql.html

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Yahoo! is rumoured to soon set the DRM shackles free.
last.fm successfully did, but you can only hear tracks by three.
The media was so pumped up it ignored imeem
who a month ago convinced the Big 4 to stream.
Amazon shows downloads have already been done
Unless you’re outside the US where iTunes is the one
And that’s [...]

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No 3G iPhone.
No sub-notebook/tablet/12" Powerbook.
No Blu-Ray drives.
Randy Newman.
Markets plummet in US, Europe and Asia/Pacific (red lines denote approximate local time when Steve Jobs delivered the Macworld 08 Keynote).
Coincidence?  You decide.

Stock charts courtesy of Yahoo! Finance.

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