1. Sony Playstation 3 is released - I cracked up when I saw that clip. For a real clip, click here (I don’t know why, but I never get any sound from YouTube?!).

2. HP Passes IBM As IT LeaderÂ? - Fourth quarter sales grew from $416 million last year to $1.7 billion this year. Mr. Hurd is probably going to see a nice bonus in his stocking this year.

3. Yahoo!’s Social Media Acquisitions - Three interesting acquisitions by Internet giant Yahoo!. First, Bix, and online contest site, then MyBlogLog, a blog community and analytics tool, and Kenet Works, a Swedish mobile company. I think we’ve talked a bit about social media and mobile companies, and the importance of the Big 3 making moves in this direction, haven’t we? Although the Kenet Works deal has been a few months in the making, it is exactly the kind of service that I think is long overdue.

4. Executive Shake-ups - Anyone watching Netscape’s fallÂ? over the last year, especially after the Digg-clone attempt, knew that things could be bad for Jason Calacanis. With the replacement of Ross Levinsohn following on the heels of Jason’s resignation, Two of the biggest players in facilitating the connection between entrepreneurs and big companies are leaving their jobs (from the article by Marshall Kirkpatrick that I linked to).

5. Search Engines UniteÂ? - Okay, so they are actually uniting on a unified sitemap system, but the Big 3 don’t seem to get together on too many efforts. This can only help the net-world, or at least simplify things for those of us who are in-tune with such things. However, the downfall is that any sitemap that currently exists is probably outdated now, isn’t it? Check out Sitemaps.org for more information as it comes.

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