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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Jumo Mixes Social Activism and Facebook for a Global Crowd
Hughes announced the project back in March, when he told the LA Times that he had decided to develop the network after spending a year traveling in Asia, Africa and Latin America. "You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty. There are not even a single set of solutions or strategies that are going to be the answer to all of these challenges," he explained. "Instead, you have to support all the individuals and organizations working on the ground doing good, valuable work."
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Samsung Mobile Display Shows Off Flexible 3D OLED Concept at FPD International
When it comes to AMOLED and Super AMOLED, the display technology is synonymous with Samsung. But Samsung doesn’t want to just focus on the here-and-now. They’ve already shown off what a 4.5-inch flexible AMOLED would look like, so why wouldn’t the company show off a concept design of what it would look like to see [...]
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It's Maize Day, so try something different. How to Make Ugali, African Cornmeal Porridge
Ugali (pronounced oo-ga-ly) is a staple starch component of many African meals, especially in southern and east Africa. It is generally made from maize flour (or ground maize) and water, and varies in consistency from porridge to a dough-like substance. When ugali is made from another starch, it is usually given a specific regional name. This is a filling dish and you won't need to eat anything else for hours. Enjoy and to good health!
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The App Store model faces disruption from HTML5
Today's Wall Street Journal features an article by Christopher Lawton that talks about the difficulty independent app stores face when competing with Apple and Google for developer and consumer attention. Paul Reddick, chief executive of third-party app store HandMark told WSJ that he couldn't simply bet the whole company's fate on independently distributing apps with a presence like Google to compete against.
It may not even be a prudent bet to be in the app store business at all.
SPIL Games, a Dutch company that built its audience of more than 130 million gamers on browser-based Flash games, has found that the behavior of casual gamers doesn't translate well to the app-based distribution model.
"We have always had the kind of experience where users can play immediately," Peter Driessen, CEO of SPIL Games told Betanews this morning. "There's no downloading and installing. It's just browse and play right away. Casual gamers usually try five or six different games before they settle on one they like."
SPIL, therefore, has ported its entire network of 47 casual gaming sites into mobile-friendly HTML5, so users can quickly browse through the lists of games, trying different ones on for size.
"We've tested in app stores, and we can't bring that quick, casual experience into [them]. HTML5 lets us bring that experience to users on all the compatible platforms out there...connected TVs, iOS devices, Android devices, PCs, and others," Driessen said.
It's an approach that Google and Apple have taken for bringing services like Latitude and Google Voice to the iOS platform. Unlike an app that would have to adhere to Apple's strict App Store guidelines while simultaneously catering to the feature-disparate iPhone versions, a fully-featured HTML5 Web app could cover more ground. HTML5 games, likewise, could be written once, and cover a lot more devices.
With companies that deal mostly in Flash-based games, this portability is crucial. Take, for example, Zynga, makers of intensely popular Flash-based social games like Farmville and Mafia Wars. Even though the company has more than 20 social games, and is the top Facebook application developer by a rather large margin, the company has not necessarily translated this into a great presence in the mobile space.
Zynga has made iOS apps out of five of its most popular games, and only recently announced that it would be developing apps for Android. Farmville for iOS, Zynga's best-performing iOS app, is currently ranked #64 in iTunes' top 100 free apps.
"For developers, everything is tied together." said Driessen. "If they want to make a mobile game, or to launch on a new platform, they can base everything on the same [HTML5] source code."
In three years' time, Driessen expects half of SPIL's business to come from its HTML5 games. By that point, the burgeoning Web standard should be reaching the candidate recommendation stage and its presence in mobile handsets, PCs, and connected entertainment devices. In the meantime, the company is hoping to attract indie game developers to the HTML5 camp with a six-month long contest to develop the best HTML5 casual games, with three winners every month.
"We believe it'll be the future of gaming. Every month we've gotten quite a few great new game submissions, and sometimes we can't put some of them up because they're still very experimental," Driessen said.
So as the technology grows, so too does the possibility that a great mobile game could simply exist as an HTML5 website that everyone has access to, rather than an app that has to be individually ported for listing in each platform's app store. SPIL's search for the next great casual HTML5 game will continue until March 2011, and the next prize-winning game submissions will be announced in the coming weeks.
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Gift Guide: Aquapac Waterproof Camera Bag Is the Clear Choice for Under $50
Occam's Razor: The obvious solution turns out to be the right one, too. Aquapac's line of waterproof camera bags are, in essence, stupidly obvious; they're essentially industrial-strength Ziploc bags with a patented seal. But, hey, we aren't hatin'. They get the job done, and allow low-budget mortals like us to go where only professionals have dared venture, deep into the drink with our precious point-and-shooters. Using them is as straightforward as you'd guess. Just pop the locks on the seal, chuck in your camera, and seal it back up. You can now head into the water down to 15 feet or so. And, should you accidentally drop the camera, it'll float to the surface for easy retrieval. Depending on the size and type of your shooter (or camcorder), there are different bags available from as low as $30. For higher-performance gear like DSLR cameras, there are models with built-in, hard-plastic lenses, which facilitate much sharper images and video. To be fair, Aquapacs can't compete with the custom waterproof camera housings that the pros use, so you shouldn't expect high-def, flawless results. Still, we love not having to worry about getting our camera (or phone, or iPod, or camcorder) doused. And, hell, to be honest, we just wish we'd thought of making these first.
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Darth Vader Pitches Samsung Galaxy S, Apparently Runs Android
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Spotify could launch in US without all major labels
Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI may not all be on board for American version of the music-streaming service
Spotify is moving closer to a US launch for its music-streaming service, though it could reportedly be prepared to do so without having the four major record labels on board.
People familiar with the company's negotiations with Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI ? it has been in discussions with EMI for more than a year ? told the Financial Times Spotify is considering launching in the US without having all four on board at launch.
The company's accounts for 2009, filed only last week, paint a bleak picture with a net loss of �16m on revenues of �11.3m. The company's auditors, Ernst & Young, warned that "material uncertainty" could cast "significant doubt about the group's ability to continue".
Spotify has expanded into seven European countries since its 2008 launch, though protracted negotiations with major US record labels have halted its ambition to expand into north America. In October, the music-streaming service said it had around 10 million users ? though only about 500,000 of these are paying for the premium offering.
But now the European startup is likely to hasten to a US launch as its board grow impatient at the delay. Daniel Ek, Spotify's co-founder and chief executive, has previously said the service would have a US presence by November.
A Spotify spokesman said: "2009 saw us focus on establishing a new and innovative music service and bringing it to millions of people across Europe. The groundwork laid in our launch year has been crucial to the significant achievements made in 2010. Further strengthening and expansion of the service remains our top priority."
Spotify has risen to prominence across Europe as a legal alternative to free-at-the-point-of-access music. Users can download the Spotify application for free-to-listen-to music punctuated by occasional advertising, similar to commercial radio. It also offers a premium service where users pay for extra features such as a mobile app and offline streaming.
This business model, which the company has said is fundamental to its attraction, lies at the heart of its wrangle with US record labels, which have failed to warm to the idea of free streaming. Spotify converts 5% to 7% of its free customers into subscribers, the Guardian understands.
The company's report for 2009 shows it made �6.8m from subscriptions and �4.5m in advertising revenues. But Spotify's cost of goods, which includes licencing fees paid to record labels, reached �18m.
Mark Mulligan, a music analyst at Forrester Research, estimated that the best case scenario for Spotify would be to convert 10% of its user base to paying customers. He said the company is "making great progress" but really needed to hit the 10% mark "before they can start patting themselves on the back".
"Free music itself is never going to work as a business model while there is such a disparity between ad revenues and license fees. But the freemium model has solid merit," Mulligan added.
"More promising though is the subsidised model whereby music feels free to the customer but is in fact paid for by someone else, such as an ISP or phone company. That is the mass market way to square the circle of people not wanting to pay for music but record labels needing to be paid."
Kieron Donoghue, founder of the Spotify-associated ShareMyPlaylists.com, said that the �4.5m advertising revenue for 2009 was "no mean feat" for a startup. The company's proportion of revenue from subscriptions ? 60% ? was a "huge testimony to the viability of the business model", Donoghue added.
"By taking their time and making sure they get the US launch right, they have done exactly the right thing. You only get one chance to launch in the US so they must make sure that they have got the right model in place before they do," he said.
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Forget the gift card, Kindle e-books can now be gifted directly
Amazon today announced that customers can now give Kindle books as gifts to anyone with an e-mail address for consumption on any Kindle app or dedicated e-reader.
In the Kindle Store on Amazon, books have a new button marked "Give as a Gift." When clicked, users are prompted to enter the recipient's email address, and are given the option to include a personal message. The books can be viewed in any Kindle app or device.
"We are thrilled to make it easier than ever for our customers to give their favorite Kindle book to a friend or family member as a gift," said Amazon Kindle VP Russ Grandinetti in a statement on Friday. "We're making this functionality available in time for the holidays to offer an easy, stress free holiday shopping option for anyone - not just Kindle owners."
Historically, giving digital content has not been this direct and simple. To give someone a music album on iTunes, for example, customers had to resort to giving generic gift certificates and gift cards. It wasn't until recently that iTunes Gift functionality was opened, and in March Apple extended the functionality with "Gift this App."
The upcoming holiday season will be the first to have direct gifting of music, apps, and e-books available to consumers.
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Games Chatterbox Column Monday
The place to talk about games, and just about anything else too...
Monday's edition of Chatterbox
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How to Choose an Engagement Ring
Shopping for an engagement ring doesn't have to be a dreaded experience. With the right amount of knowledge about what to look for in a ring, coupled with your excitement about asking the girl of your dreams to marry you, this can be an enjoyable exercise matching your newly discovered ring expertise with the money you've got available to spend. In this article, you'll learn the most important things to consider when choosing an engagement ring for your beloved.
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Chase Carey Likes MySpace So Much He's Willing To Sell It
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) COO Chase Carey already expressed frustration over the performance MySpace on the conglomerate’s last earnings call earlier this month. Now there’s new evidence that even his limited patience may have worn just a wee bit thinner.
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Windows Phone 7 outsold by Android 15:1 in UK suggests retailer
With Microsoft still refusing to provide Windows Phone 7 sales figures, retailers are stepping in with their own anecdotal evidence about the new smartphone platform’s market success – or lack of it. UK store�deal aggregator�MobilesPlease has announced�that Windows Phone 7 has accounted for just 3-percent of their smartphone sales, with Android devices outselling WP7 handsets [...]
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It's Maize Day, so try something different. How to Make Ugali, African Cornmeal Porridge
Ugali (pronounced oo-ga-ly) is a staple starch component of many African meals, especially in southern and east Africa. It is generally made from maize flour (or ground maize) and water, and varies in consistency from porridge to a dough-like substance. When ugali is made from another starch, it is usually given a specific regional name. This is a filling dish and you won't need to eat anything else for hours. Enjoy and to good health!
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Spotify could launch in US without all major labels
Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI may not all be on board for American version of the music-streaming service
Spotify is moving closer to a US launch for its music-streaming service, though it could reportedly be prepared to do so without having the four major record labels on board.
People familiar with the company's negotiations with Universal, Sony, Warner and EMI ? it has been in discussions with EMI for more than a year ? told the Financial Times Spotify is considering launching in the US without having all four on board at launch.
The company's accounts for 2009, filed only last week, paint a bleak picture with a net loss of �16m on revenues of �11.3m. The company's auditors, Ernst & Young, warned that "material uncertainty" could cast "significant doubt about the group's ability to continue".
Spotify has expanded into seven European countries since its 2008 launch, though protracted negotiations with major US record labels have halted its ambition to expand into north America. In October, the music-streaming service said it had around 10 million users ? though only about 500,000 of these are paying for the premium offering.
But now the European startup is likely to hasten to a US launch as its board grow impatient at the delay. Daniel Ek, Spotify's co-founder and chief executive, has previously said the service would have a US presence by November.
A Spotify spokesman said: "2009 saw us focus on establishing a new and innovative music service and bringing it to millions of people across Europe. The groundwork laid in our launch year has been crucial to the significant achievements made in 2010. Further strengthening and expansion of the service remains our top priority."
Spotify has risen to prominence across Europe as a legal alternative to free-at-the-point-of-access music. Users can download the Spotify application for free-to-listen-to music punctuated by occasional advertising, similar to commercial radio. It also offers a premium service where users pay for extra features such as a mobile app and offline streaming.
This business model, which the company has said is fundamental to its attraction, lies at the heart of its wrangle with US record labels, which have failed to warm to the idea of free streaming. Spotify converts 5% to 7% of its free customers into subscribers, the Guardian understands.
The company's report for 2009 shows it made �6.8m from subscriptions and �4.5m in advertising revenues. But Spotify's cost of goods, which includes licencing fees paid to record labels, reached �18m.
Mark Mulligan, a music analyst at Forrester Research, estimated that the best case scenario for Spotify would be to convert 10% of its user base to paying customers. He said the company is "making great progress" but really needed to hit the 10% mark "before they can start patting themselves on the back".
"Free music itself is never going to work as a business model while there is such a disparity between ad revenues and license fees. But the freemium model has solid merit," Mulligan added.
"More promising though is the subsidised model whereby music feels free to the customer but is in fact paid for by someone else, such as an ISP or phone company. That is the mass market way to square the circle of people not wanting to pay for music but record labels needing to be paid."
Kieron Donoghue, founder of the Spotify-associated ShareMyPlaylists.com, said that the �4.5m advertising revenue for 2009 was "no mean feat" for a startup. The company's proportion of revenue from subscriptions ? 60% ? was a "huge testimony to the viability of the business model", Donoghue added.
"By taking their time and making sure they get the US launch right, they have done exactly the right thing. You only get one chance to launch in the US so they must make sure that they have got the right model in place before they do," he said.
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Splatterhouse ? review
PS3/Xbox360; �44.99; cert 18+; Namco
Violence. Everybody loves a bit of it, don't they? Punch, kick, rip, smash, gouge and dismember your way through this reboot of the classic beat-'em-up series, and you should have had enough violence to last you 10 bloody years.
Gratuitous swearing! That's great too, right? Splatterhouse is jam-packed full of it. You can't go more than two minutes in this game without a "shit" this or a "bitch" that.
Do you know what'll go perfectly with all this bad language and excessive violence? Nudity. And why not soundtrack it all with some really loud heavy metal music, made by bands with ridiculously metal names like Goat Whore and Municipal Waste.
A lot of people will be turned off by all this shamelessly adolescent nonsense, but there are a large number of shamelessly adolescent gamers out there. They're going to love this game.
In a plot that sticks reasonably close to the original games, lead character Rick must rescue his girlfriend from the clutches of evil scientist Dr West. He's assisted by a mysterious talking mask, which transforms him from an average college student weakling into a pumped-up Hulk-esque killing machine. In return, Rick must keep the mask happy by harvesting blood from the many Lovecraftian mutants and monsters populating the linear levels.
The combat is carried out with the usual set of kicks, punches, holds and throws you'd expect from a beat-'em-up, a few upgradeable special moves and some brutal weaponry ? planks of wood, knives, severed limbs and so on. Attack moves and combos are simple but satisfying to carry out, and the story takes in a number of impressively realised locations.
The creators have bent over backwards to please old-school Splatterhouse fans: the three original games are included as unlockable bonuses, and at various points the action switches from 3D to 2D, in sections that work both as a love letter to side-scrolling beat-'em-ups of yore, and as thoroughly enjoyable stages in their own right, smoothly shifting the game's pace to complement the relentless brawling that takes place elsewhere.
Throw in some surprisingly nuanced storytelling, some boss battles that can only reasonably be described as mega, and what Namco have produced here is something of a masterpiece of the beat-'em-up genre. Splatterhouse is a vulgar, noisy, shallow, juvenile, gruesome gem of a game that never forgets to be fun, even when going out of its way to be as appalling as possible.
? Game reviewed on PS3
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Rupert Murdoch creates 'iNewspaper'
News Corp reportedly set to launch iPad news publication exclusively via download
Rusbridger warns of 'chilling effect' of News Corp's bid for BSkyB
Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital "newspaper" called the Daily at the end of this month, according to reports in the US media.
The collaboration, which has been secretly under development in New York for several months, promises to be the world's first "newspaper" designed exclusively for new tablet-style computers such as Apple's iPad, with a launch planned for early next year.
Intended to combine "a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence", the publication represents Murdoch's determination to push the newspaper business beyond the realm of print.
According to reports, there will be no "print edition" or "web edition"; the central innovation, developed with assistance from Apple engineers, will be to dispatch the publication automatically to an iPad or any of the growing number of similar devices.
With no printing or distribution costs, the US-focused Daily will cost 99 cents (62p) a week.
According to the US elite fashion industry journal Women's Wear Daily, the Murdoch-Jobs "newspaper" will be run from the 26th floor of the News Corp offices in New York, where 100 journalist have been hired, including Pete Picton, an online editor from the Sun, as one of three managing editors. The editor of the Daily has not been announced, but observers are assuming it will be Jesse Angelo, the managing editor of the New York Post and rising star in the News Corp firmament.
Angelo, who was at school with Murdoch's son Lachlan, was formerly editor of the Post's business section and has recruited the tabloid's gossip columnist Richard Johnson to run the Daily's Los Angeles bureau. Other staff include Sasha Frere-Jones, a music critic at the New Yorker, who will oversee arts and culture. News Corp's pattern of hiring for the project suggests that video will be a major component of the new publication.
The 79-year-old Murdoch is said to have had the idea for the project after studying a survey that suggested readers spent more time immersed in their iPads than they did ? comparatively speaking ? on the internet, where unfocused surfing is typical.
Sources say Murdoch is committed to the project in part because he believes that the Daily, properly executed, will demonstrate that consumers are willing to pay for high- quality, original content online.
Murdoch believes the iPad is going to be a "game changer" and he has seen projections that there will be 40 million iPads in circulation by the end of 2011. A source said: "He envisions a world in which every family has a iPad in the home and it becomes the device from which they get their news and information. If only 5% of those 40 million subscribe to the Daily, that's already two million customers."
But Murdoch's success with internet ventures is mixed. The Times recently said it had gained more than 100,000 paying customers for its web edition, while the Wall Street Journal now has more than two million readers behind a partial paywall. But MySpace, once the leading social networking site, which Murdoch paid $580m for in 2005, is now an also-ran in the field, and Murdoch is running counter to current thinking that web publications need print editions to justify themselves to advertisers.
Apple has been expected to announce a subscription plan for newspapers based on the model of its iTunes music download service, but some publishers have been unwilling to let Apple in as an intermediary or let it control pricing the way iTunes has done in the music business.
"Obviously, Steve Jobs sees this as a significant revenue stream for Apple in the future," Roger Fidler, head of digital publishing at the Donald W Reynolds Journalism Institute, told the San Jose Mercury News recently.
And with Apple expected to dominate the tablet market until compelling competitors are introduced, Murdoch may have no choice but to ride with Jobs. According to Women's Wear Daily, Jobs is "a major fan" of the newsprint patriarch: "When the project is announced, don't be surprised if you see Steve Jobs onstage with Rupert Murdoch, welcoming the Daily to the app world."
? This article was amended on 22 November 2010. The original described Sasha Frere-Jones as a former music critic at the New Yorker. This has been corrected.
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In case anyone eats their turkey too hastily...How to Perform the Heimlich Maneuver
The Heimlich maneuver (abdominal thrusts) is a three-step emergency response technique that can save a life in seconds. It is a simple action that will often dislodge food or another object from a person's airway when they are choking, as it provides an increase in pressure in the abdomen and chest, enabling the object to be expelled. The onset of choking will often be sudden, and knowing how to do it properly and being willing to use that knowledge can save someone's life. Learn the method for performing the Heimlich maneuver by following these simple steps.
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Oh you naughty tweeters ? you've upset the establishment
As the bishop of Willesden has discovered, punishment awaits those who express themselves online
Two disconnected events last week showed how far we still have to go in understanding our new communications environment. In one, an Anglican bishop was suspended for some remarks he made on his Facebook page about the forthcoming wedding of two graduates of St Andrews University. In the other, a 27-year-old accountant had his appeal against a conviction for posting a joke message on Twitter dismissed.
First, the bishop. Pete Broadbent is (or was?) the suffragan bishop of Willesden. A portrait of him on Facebook suggests that he is a cheery, slightly untidy chap. He is also a political leftie and a republican. Irritated by the sycophantic nonsense in the tabloids that accompanied the announcement of the Windsor-Middleton merger, he logged on to Facebook and gave vent to his feelings. "The Windsors and their predecessors," he wrote, "don't have a good track record on the permanence of marriage. But their marriage is their business. I don't know them and have no part in celebrating it. I just wish we weren't paying for it.
"I think we need a party in Calais for all good republicans who can't stand the nauseating tosh that surrounds this event. Never underestimate the capacity of the media to descend into the most fawning nonsense and to rake up trivia and irrelevance until it comes out of their every orifice. I managed to avoid the last disaster in slow motion between Big Ears and the Porcelain Doll and hope to avoid this one too."
Stirring stuff, eh? And, given what we subsequently discovered about Big Ears's extramarital activities, quite restrained. But Broadbent's boss, the bishop of London, was not amused and suspended him from his ministry. Which was a stupid and counter-productive thing to do, given that if the Church of England is to have a future, it takes the form of people in their 20s and 30s who use Facebook. And most of them will be a lot less upset about Bishop Broadbent's rant than the wrinklies currently running the C of E franchise.
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Paul Chambers was arriving at Robin Hood airport, near Doncaster, expecting to catch a flight to see his girlfriend in Northern Ireland. Finding the place closed because of bad weather, he tweeted thus: "Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You've got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!!" What he didn't realise at the time was that Inspector Knacker of the war on terrorism department would not only see his tweet, but treat it as an indictable offence. Chambers was arrested, charged under our sweeping anti-terrorism laws, convicted and fined. When his employers discovered about these proceedings, he was also fired from his job.
Astonished, Chambers appealed, reckoning that a crown court would dismiss his conviction and �1,000 fine without a full hearing. But last week, Judge Jacqueline Davies at Doncaster crown court dismissed Chambers's appeal on every count. She found that his original tweet "contained menace" and that Chambers must have known that it might be taken seriously.
At which point you begin to wonder what's going on. One well-known blogger, Martin Weller, has a persuasive answer. What we have now, he argues, is "a conspiracy of sentiment". "All those involved at various stages: politicians, the police, CPS, judges, media are all acting from the same unspoken emotional base. This can be summarised as: they hate you. They hate that you undermine their carefully crafted messages and turn them into jokes. They hate that you are forming new methods of entertainment that they don't understand. They hate that you can organise yourselves without them knowing about it. They hate that power has been democratised. They hate that you get at content for free. They hate it, hate it, hate it. So when the opportunity arises to stamp on one of you snivelling social media types, they grasp it with both hands."
Yep. No wonder the guys in Silicon Valley think Britain is quaint. It is.
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