152"er

Panasonic have been saving the ace tucked neatly up their sleeve for a while now, but pulled it out in a blaze of high resolution glory at the consumer electronics show this year.

Their groundbreaking bar-raising TV as pictured above is an astonishing 152 inches and has 4,000 by 2,000 definition. Not only is it stupidly big, it is also one of the first full HD 3D plasma displays to be announced.

Industry insiders are saying that 2010 is going to be the year of the third dimension in entertainment, but the big question on everyones mind is "will this thing fit in my living room?"

The death of Myspace?

Another cheery post revolving around death then as it's been revealed that Facebook are in talks with Murdoch's Myspace website about absorbing their content. Should Myspace be absorbed into the global social network Facebook, then this day will surely be marked as that of Myspace's demise.

The metaphorical skin of Myspace's teeth does seem to be holding if only for a short while longer though, as last-ditch plans to turn it's focus and content entirely on music continue.

Facebook users out number Myspace users threefold, and the future does look bleak indeed for those die-hard 'emo' Myspace users. Their accounts would eventually be redundant, and Facebook account details will be used to log on to the music-focused website.

This corporate take-down has been a long and drawn out struggle-Myspace has long been in a stranglehold by big daddy Facebook for months. It was always simply a matter of time before Facebook killed Myspace however. (or absorbed it's content) Truly a gritty fight to the end, the underdog Myspace which once was king now looks like it is dead in the water. This nasty affair will be made to seem like a picnic party compared to what's going to happen to Facebook when Google Wave goes public though, believe me.

Rest in FB

Mark Zuckerberg and co. have announced that the profiles of dead people can now be 'memorialized' on the moderately popular website Facebook.

The touching sentiment of being 'memorialized' forever in your favourite social networking site is truly sickening. Why would anyone want to be left imprisoned within the confines of Facebook's newsfeed after death. It would be like Limbo only worse, with constant invitations to use pointless time-wasting applications or rate and compare people in a wholly shallow and materialistic way.

And don't worry, because no-one will ever be able to 'memorialize' someone who isn't actually dead-Zuckerberg and the team are just one step ahead of those pesky internet pranksters. Stringent security has been laid out around the process of declaring someone dead on facebook. Users wanting to 'memorialize' a dead loved ones page have to email facebook with the deceased's (ex)email address along with a news story about their death (or-not and-or an obituary entry) I'm sure no one will ever manage to beat that system.

I'd just like to put it out there now just in case I do die anytime soon...I do not do not want to have my profile 'memorialized' on Facebook. If anything, that would just be an excuse for people not to visit your place of rest.

"such a tragedy....did you go to the funeral?"
"Nah, poked his memorial page though"