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“Based on the aggregation of billions of search queries people typed into Google this year, Zeitgeist captures the spirit of 2010.”

…happening in Australia. Make sure you wave.

Amazon’s electronic bookreader coming to Australia.

Here’s the Australia specific product page. The international edition page lets you pick Australia and in the pop-up there’s a link for a coverage map (the Kindle includes free 3G wireless connectivity). For Sydney, there’s 3G coverage, however, outside of the metro area. No 3G – no details on which carrier is supplying the 3G.

*Amazon Associate links in this post.

major labels set to offer thousands of songs to customers for a small monthly fee

Will you pay $9.99 for a streaming music service (all the music you can listen to, but nothing to keep)?
How’s your bandwidth quota?

Google Search just got complex... bring back simplicity! See also Google Blog post and there’s also a demo on YouTube. Looks rather useless to me, but to some people who think Google is the internet, this might be very helpful.

You can also see the helpfulness of the comments feature:
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Google’s web browser, Chrome, for Windows only at the moment. Have you tried it?