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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

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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