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Online Dating Helping Pathetic Women Get Their Hopes Crushed More Efficiently

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I love the word douchebag, which I think roughly means ’shower bag’ in Franglais… it has no relevance to this item, I just like the word.

Share This the creators of one singular widget, which is green and looks like a tuning fork have raised a staggering $21m, based on no business model and the goodwill of the people installing the widget who will no doubt revolt at first sign of advertising.

I love my lil’ widgets, but these guys give widgets a bad name, like they’re ‘bidgets’ or something. Reading the write up on Techcrunch I was drawn to one particularly acerbic comment, which has prompted me to make ‘oddball comments’ a regular feature at the Fat Canteen, so gather round and chow down douchebags.

Nasty little douchebag… now good VC kindly bring me my shower bag.

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I’m thinking widgets may be the future of the web. They make every social network page or blog, or start page a personal media network.

It seems Will Price of we’re-not-arms-dealers-even-though-we-sound-like-we-might-be, Hummer Winblad venture capitalists also thinks so, so much so he’s biting the hand that feeds him and leaving the boardrooms full of free pens for the backrooms full of bearded start-up geeks drinking Kool-Aid and joining Hummer Winblad backed Widgetbox.

His logic goes thus:

“The best markets and the best companies ride the tide of history. Widgets are such a market.

The Web’s tide is open, distributed, standard, user-defined, and, in many ways, the most powerful force of the modern era. Widgets are not a fad, or web 2.0-hype, but fundamentally they are the unit by which users are assembling and defining their web experience.”

I kinda agree and to show my agreement in a widgety way, I used Slide, King O’The Facebook Apps Crapola to turn Bon Bon’s Radiohead video into something that wouldn’t be out of place in my daughter’s bedroom alongside her picture of Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka.

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Bluetooth brained Alex Iskold is at it again with his wireless cleverosity:

(via RWW) “With the new iPhone SDK, it’s just a matter of time before we see a wave of new applications. We expect a lot of popular web 2.0 apps to offer an iPhone version. Native Twitter, Facebook and Flickr clients for iPhone will run faster than their in-browser versions and will take advantage of the impressive Apple UI libraries. But there is an entirely new breed of applications also coming to iPhone. These apps simply would not be possible without a device like iPhone.

The major theme of this new wave of apps will be blending of the physical and digital worlds, using iPhone as the bridge. In this post we take a look at what’s coming.”
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Twas Paul Hardcastle as I recall, way back in the murky 80’s singing about ‘all those who remember the war’ and the ‘average age of a soldier in the Vietnam War being nnnnnn…19′.

Well that’s barely relevant, but 19 is the age of tech entrepreneur Jared Kim who just raised $3m for WeGame - a media sharing platform for gamers. You download a screen capture/video uploader which enables you to record your virtual persona, warlock, dwarf a.n.other mythical freak beating up other… er freaks.

It’s all a bit Bill & Ted’s for me, as I was reared on the Sinclair 48k Spectrum, but credit where credit is due, it’s a very simple, very clever idea.

When I was 19 I was waking up in other people’s caravans and smoking cigarettes with gloves on.

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“The decision to expand YouTube’s application programming interfaces is the smartest move by management since it agreed to lighten Eric Schmidt’s wallet to the tune of $1.6 billion in 2006.”

So says Charles Cooper at News.com.

He goes on, he’s really very excited:

“With the announcement, developers get more direct access to the service while it also facilitates the proliferation of so-called “chromeless” players without the traditional YouTube interface and branding.

Eric Schmidt: YouTube everywhere? Why not?

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Our fellow Fat dieticians, Bon Bon proudly unveil their 100% officially un-official video for those winsome free music crooners Radiohead.

It’s really very scientific.

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Duh! We’re designers, we use Macs, duh, yeah… of course we’d say that. Duh, hang on a minute, Alex Iskold over at RWW is going further than that, he’s saying Why Apple Will Dominate Next Gen Computing. Alex is probably the 16th cleverest person on the web, his posts always feature charts which make little or no sense to me, being as I am, an ‘overview’ rather than a ‘nuts n’bolts’ kind of a guy.

A choice quote:

“No matter how cool the exchange support and the enterprise play is, that news is dwarfed by the other, much more important announcement - the iPhone SDK. The powerful platform that Apple uses to create beautiful applications for MacOS and iPhone is now completely open. Over a decade in making, this Objective-C based stack is complete with interfaces for operating system Read the rest of this entry »

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His hair is too long, he smokes, he plays the trumpet, he is Italian Spiderman.

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