Yea so I signed up for this Facebook malarky; sue me. This morning I find a friend request from Robin (who wins the trophy for quickest of Eli’s roommates to notice my Facebook existence), and this adorable infographic that is my Facebook feed.

I’m glad your product is here Mark to tell me that I am officially in a relationship as of 10:51pm. How would I ever function as a social being without this sort of shit?!

The song in this new Zune ad is fantastic. I think their marketing direction here is both extremely attractive and a great way to differentiate from Apple.

Coming Zune preview site

According to his temporary blog, Wil Wheaton expressed his distaste for losing all of his purchased iTunes music and not having a way to retrieve it. After doing so, ‘Kate’ from Apple called him:

She said that Apple wants to keep their customers happy, and ensure that they’ll be confident purchasing things from the iTunes Music Store, so she was going to push a Big Red Button that would allow me to have a do over, and download all of my purchased music again, free of charge. This seemed excessive to me, and way above what would be reasonably expected, but before I could tell her that, she told me that she’d read on my blog that I didn’t expect Apple to treat me any differently than they’d treat any other customer. She assured me that this is Apple’s corporate policy, and they’ll do this for anyone who has a catastrophic loss of their iTunes Music Store purchases, regardless of the cause.

Pretty sweet. I almost want to blow away my library just to prove the point.

I love a good Apple rumor as much as the next geek, but this one is just a bit too stinky. The Appleinsider article published on the rumored Apple mobile phone this morning at 11:00 EST. An excerpt from the article:

…Shaw Wu told clients in a research note on Tuesday. “We believe this smart phone has been in development for over 12 months and has overcome substantial challenges including design, interference, battery life and other technical glitches.”

Now enter TheStreet.com and Senior Writer Scott Moritz. This TheStreet.com article was posted at 13:06 EDT, and features the following quote:

“We believe this smart phone has been in development for over 12 months and has overcome substantial challenges including design, interference, battery life, and other technical glitches. As we have seen in the smart phone space, it is very difficult to produce a converged product of high quality,” [Peter] Lin writes.

First off, how exactly does TheStreet.com occupy a different ribbon of the 4th dimension from Appleinsider?

Aside from these two sites and their war on time, MacNN and ArsTechnica have both published similar articles featuring some collection of the names Peter Lin and Albert Wu.

Is anyone here checking their facts? I mean it’s obvious there aren’t any real facts to check, but come on people this is just bananas.

Sure last week I wrote about how FakeJobs had decided to call out Veronica (who got another mention a few days ago), but now this is just out of hand. From Dan’l Lewin stabs me in the back:

Dude, it’s bad enough that your name is Dan’l. (Poser!) Worse yet that you sold your soul to the devil and you’re working at Microsoft.

I wonder if anyone else will read that headline quite like those of us who know the history between these two. Curiouser and curiouser…