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Judging by the math, YouTube just can't part with the orange clad decade dancer...

"The Evolution of Dance" video, which has been the most viewed youtube pretty much since youtube started (and could be argued was the sole and complete reason for the success of youtube and even further was likely the reason why google paid so much for it and may even one day solve the environmental crisis) has just been usurped by Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" video.

Yes, Avril Lavigne. Yes, the "Girlfriend" video. Yes.

A glitch you say? A mistake? How could "The Evolution of Dance", that pleasant, perfect and picturesque party on the dance floor lose it's title? Maybe ask the throngs of teenage Avril Lavigne marketers whose sole job it is to watch the "Girlfriend" video.

Wow.

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Check it!

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What the hell happened to ruinediphone.com?  I posted earlier about the petition against Rogers Communications crazy rates and for the last 2 days the protest site has been down. 

Bandwidth?  Conspiracy?  David Duchovny?

The iPhone is coming to Canada like a Walrus to a summer picnic.  Everyone can see it coming but the closer it gets the more you need zoologist to understand what the hell is going on.  But at least it's still summer.

It's confounding and frustrating to think that Rogers decision makers, in the quiet and cool of their Toronto towers, would think that they were somehow making good pricing decisions for the new market of iPhone customers.  I can hear the conversation.

Exec 1: "Should we make the pricing plans easy to understand"

Laughing

Exec 1: "Should we make it competitive?"

Exec 2: "With who?  Nobody has the iPhone here but us."

Exec 1: "You're right.  It's the fucking iPhone - people love it, people worship it. They're going to buy this little magic box no matter what.  Besides, we're talking about Canadians here.  They'll take anything up the ass.  I mean it's not like they're not going to buy it just because they can't afford it.  Higher prices mean better vacations and bigger cars."

Exec 2: "Alright, good decision.  Next topic: Penis sizes."

Here are the pricing plans as listed on Rogers website on June 28th.

Now, a new petition has been launched at ruinediphone.com. I signed it. But more importantly, people need to not buy the iPhone when it comes out. That will make a much greater impact than complaining online.

I thought this was funny. "Invite Google Calendar to chat"

It's nice to see that Gmail wants Google Calendar (not Gcalendar?) to be her friend. And for some reason I feel like Gmail is a girl (Google Calendar has no gender affect on me).

I wonder what would happen if I invited Calendar to a chat?

me: Hey Calendar, how are things?

Calendar: You have a dentist appointment 1 day ago.

me: Ignore.

Calendar: That's it then. You're all caught up.

me: Seriously?

Calendar: Sorry. There's nothing happening right now. Have you checked out Google reader for news?

me: Yah, but I wanted to talk to you. I miss you. You're like the friend I never had.

Calendar: I've got nothing for you.

me: Not even an early reminder for a Friday meeting?
me: Calendar?

Calendar: ;) Sorry, I was talking to Labs. Did you know it's in Gmail now?

me: Yah, superstar, snake games, muzzle... I heard. Are you getting any Lab features?
me: Calendar?
me: CALENDAR!

Calendar: Hey, twitter is back up. Did you see WWDC? Jobs killed! Sweet man.

me: But what about me? Don't you want to talk to me?
me: Calendar!

Calendar: I know, Froogle was a crazy idea, just like checkout.
Calendar: Oops, sorry, that wasn't for you. brb, talking to YouTube for second.

me: Wait! Come on!
me: Fine, I'll schedule an appointment with myself.
me: Calendar? Can I schedule an appointment please?

Calendar has set their status to busy. You might be interrupting

me: I know you're not busy.
me: Stop ignoring me.

Calendar: Ha ha, Cali Lewis is so funny. And Mahalo! Man, I should have thought of that. Who cares, I'll just buy them. You should check out their latest posts.

me: Calendar! Me, focus on me!

Calendar: What? Oh, right.
Calendar: Listen, I told you. I've got nothing for you.

me: Really?
me: Am I that boring?
me: Come on?
me: Is there nothing else? At least tell me about the upcoming holidays. Something. Public Calendars somewhere? Feed me Calendar!
me: Calendar?
me: Calendar!

Calendar has left the chat

me: dammit.

A little late to the party, Rogers.com plays it coy with a teaser add for something that is coming on July 11, 2008. Gee, I wonder what it is. Could it be the iPhone that was announced this morning at Apples WWDC? I have no idea...

Could Rogers Communications be hinting at the possibility that Canada will be getting an iPhone? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Oops, apple.ca stole Roger's thunder and spilled the beans.

Seriously. The news is public and Rogers still has no serious information on their website. No pricing information, no descriptions of the service, not even a hyperlink from this sneaky pete teaser advertisement. Just a silly "something is coming July 11th.", sorry, something big really big is coming.

Come on Rogers. Get in touch. Get excited. Get prepared.

Anyway, we'll probably have to pay $150/month for the service plan with a 5 year contract; that's why they're waiting. I mean it's such a crazy competitive market up here in Canada, what with 2 providers and all.

From the good folks at clustarack.com. This is just wicked.

Very similar in concept to the Honda ad a while back. I wonder how many ink splatters it took before they got it right.

It seems that Google is getting ready to bring the users into the development process by including us in some of the new features earlier with gmail labs. This is a engineers chance to build out new funky features during their 20% time.

Although the official gmail blog is sorrily under-updated (?) and has no reference to this, thanks to techcrunch for keeping the rest of us in the loop.

It's all good google. I think this just might tip the balance and make google a successful company.

(I guess I missed this old post as well)

Snow Leopard, originally uploaded by Shakirafan.

Some friends and I were wondering yesterday what the next major release of Mac OSX would be called.

Puma? Ocelot? Bobcat? Lynx? Lion? Tigon? Liger?

Well it seems the rumour mill is finding some roots. With the next release of OSX (10.6) as mostly a security and stability release, I guess it seems fitting that Apple simply amend the current release name and call it Snow Leopard.

A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of hearing a panel discussion on web entrepreneurship at Mesh08. One of the panelists was a dude by the fedora wearing name of Ryan Carson of Carsonified. He spoke the truth in love and left his pretense at the door.

One of his big conferences is coming up in October and if you have the chance or the time or the money or the luck or the business expense account or the good sense, make sure you're there. The schedule looks great, the speakers are hot like fire and the drinks will flow like liquid through a big machine engineered to make liquid flow fast and furious.

The Future of Web Apps conference is in London, England from Oct 8th to 10th. Maybe I'll go. Maybe you will too. First round is on me.