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Speed Test Global Statistics

Speed Test has extended their range of statistics with global reporting for countries, regions and cities. Access here.

Digital Ethnography

An anthropoligist's view of new web 2.0 participation tools and how they have changed the web in respect to text, video etc. And a critics take.

Grand Central

Grand Central provides a single number for managing telephone traffic. Techcrunch say accounts created are free for 60 days and cost $25 for 1000 minutes or $15 per month for unlimited use. There will also apparently be a free, 100 minute per month option indefinitely.Presumably unlimited is cheaper than 1000 minutes because that is a monthly fee. Interesting a service like this can only work in mobile party pays countries such as the US or Canada because of low mobile termination.  In Europe they would have to charge per call as it appears to be essentially a call forwarding service.