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David Cameron’s latest efforts to connect with the youth. True story.

High res version and other formats (iPod, DivX, Quicktime) over here.

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Look what it does:

Americans would never deface something in such a comedy manner.

…except maybe the duck. But you never know…

Orlando is bonkers - it makes Vegas look plausible.

Swans and Dolphins - yeah, they always hang out with each other. Bestest of friends swans and dolphins - down the pub together all the time, can’t keep ‘em apart.

Hate it when non-applicable charges apply.

…let’s make lots of money.

Looks like dotMobi really is going ahead with its mass near-cybersquatting plan of reserving the best generic domain names and auctioning them off to the highest bidder.

dotMobi, the official worldwide registry for the .mobi domain, has announced the date for its first auction of premium names.

The first set of 10 .mobi domain names will be made available via auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East domain conference in Hollywood, Florida, on October 27, 2006.

The 10 .mobi domains to be auctioned are “celebs,” “cheaptickets,” “flowers,” “fun,” “gossip,” “hot,” “laugh,” “party,” “stockquotes” and “wow.”

In an effort to prove how pointless and unnecessary this is (unless you are running a top level domain and stand to profit from it), notMobi is now open for business.

For the low, low price of nothing up-front and no monthly payments you can now snap up the first ten .notmobi.com sub-domains.

If you fancy celebs.notmobi.com, cheaptickets.notmobi.com or any of: flowers, fun, gossip, hot, laugh, party, stockquotes or wow then leave your details in the comments below.

The following conditions apply:

1) First come, first served

2) Only one sub-domain per household

3) You must supply a mobile-optimised site to forward the sub-domain to and a brief description of the site

4) A link back to notMobi.com would be appreciated, but not required

5) The chosen name must relate to the content of your site

6) No switching the content for pr0n, spam, naughty stuff later on

7) The sub-domain may be turned off for any reason, at any time, without any legal recourse on your part

In return, providing you play by the rules, the sub-domain is yours for as long as I own notMobi.

Other terms may be added in the future.

Full release after the jump.

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Best. (PR) Headline. Ever.

Press release: The Soundworks radio CD from Evesham - No need to pay through the Bose!

Evesham, 19th Oct 2006

The SoundWorks® Radio CD from Creative® brought to you by Evesham, is a hi-fi breakthrough in tabletop audio for the home. Built with the expertise of the designers at Cambridge SoundWorks, the specialist audio division of Creative Labs, this innovative system delivers sound that fills a room so effectively that listeners often look around for separate external speakers!

The rest, after the jump.

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Press release: comScore Pharmaceutical Solutions today released the results of an analysis of the behavior and intentions of people who seek cancer-related information online.

According to the study, people who research cancer online turn to the Internet predominantly for information on treatment options…

Who’d have thought?

Not that I’m using the GooTube takeover as a thinly veiled excuse to dig through YouTube in work hours, you understand…

Brilliant.

Either that, or he’s just trolling for comments.

Double brilliant.

Trawling YouTube for a story and found this. Not sure I can look at Doc and Marty in quite the same way now. Curse you, internet.

When it’s not a sex slur.

MP posts Cameron sex slur on YouTube, screamed yesterday’s London Lite

Never let the facts get in the way of a good headline.

Sion Simon’s spoof Webcameron video, while not entirely complementary of Cameron, wasn’t by any stretch of the imagination a sex slur. It wasn’t actually very good either, but that’s beside the point as it’s now been removed from YouTube.

(You may still be able to find it on the BBC, though…)

According to Wikipedia, a slur is a term of disparagement. (Click through for examples of terms of disparagement, provided you’re not afraid of bad words)

In a video clip, which has been watched by thousands of people, MP Sion Simon is seen imitating Mr Cameron and urging people to “sleep with my wife”.

Urging? Hardly.

How does “Want to sleep with my wide? That’s cool. Come down, check it out, we’ll sort it out,” constitute urging?

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I did wonder why, all of a sudden, I’d started getting emails from Google, y’know, announcing stuff rather than me having to read about it on someone else’s blog first.

Looks like the big G has put some of its computing power behind that cumbersome task of answering press queries.

We asked for some follow up on this story:

Google unites free Word and Excel rivals

Here’s what we got:

1. The development environment we’re using

It’s a proprietary development environment at Google. We generally don’t
disclose details about our development environment at Google.

2. Monetisation options

There are no ads on Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Currently, we’re focused solely on creating the best possible user experience.

3. Whether it’s competitive with Microsoft Office

Google believes that a healthy ecosystem is important to the future
development and adoption of the Internet and of technology. There are
many products on the market — from companies large and small — that
have been developed to address a broad range of user needs, and
ultimately, this drives innovation that is good for users. People use Web-
based applications because they want to share their information online
with others and they want access to that information from anywhere. With
Google Docs & Spreadsheets, we are focused on providing users with
another way to create and share their own information easily on the Web.

4. Further consolidation with other products and features to create a
fuller package

Again, we’re focused solely on creating the best possible experience for
Google Docs & Spreadsheets users. We’ll evaluate user feedback over time and determine when it makes sense to integrate other products.

Now all we need is our own robot to turn it back into English…

Snapped in Selbourne Walk shopping centre, Walthamstow.

Google may have integrated Writely into its online (not-a-competitor-to-Microsoft) office suite, but look’s like the person in charge of the spell check forgot to add one vital word: Google.

[breathe]

Ha hahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahaha ha.

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Tory leader David Cameron is trying to connect with the YouTube generation with his new video blog.

Rather than just start a channel on YouTube, though, Cameron has set up his own dedicated site to allow him to talk directly with the public.

Webcameron - do you see what he did there? - features not just his own blog and video messages, but will also host contributions from guests and the public at large. Cos that’s not open to abuse…

A short video introducing the site shows Cameron washing up at the sink, while being harangued by a screaming child. See what a man about the house he is? Obviously I’d never imply this was stage managed in any way. Strange that the child in question doesn’t make an onscreen appearance, though…

So, fred1324 really liked my videos on YouTube. So much so, he even took the time to send me a messsage to say so. What’s more, he also sent me a link to a site he reckons I’d be interesting in visiting. People are so nice.

From: fred1324

Subject: hey

hey, i watched your video, was really good, If you like games then check out the Free Flash Games at www.FunZac.com! You can put them on your own website for free aswell. Tell me what you think thanks! :]