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The BOBs is really "Best of Blogs" and is an award maintained by German newspaper Deutsche Welle, who incidentally has a international editon. There's a jury that wields its power, but also a People's Choice Award, and that's where you come in. 176 finalist blogs all wants to bring in the award, and you can help picking the winner - and a chance to win a HTC Touch Dual mobile phone as well. You can vote until Midnight CET, November 26, and the award ceremony will begin at 8 pm CET on November 27, streamed live at The BOBs website. Random PostsEngadget to cut off head to spite faceBeijing's blog problemEvan Williams buys Odeo

The Android powered T-Mobile G1 is getting Opera Mini 4.2 beta, says ZDNet's Matthew Miller, which is good news since Opera offers nice synchronization options. This is something of a rebuke to Apple who stopped Opera Mini for iPhone since it competes with the built-in Safari browser. Or not, since Apple wants to control the iPhone with the Iron Fist of Jobs. Speaking of the G1 and iPhone, the former will ship in 1 million by the end of 2008 according to HTC (via), and the latter now knows who uses it. A Compete.com survey tells us more or less what we already anticipated about the iPhone users. Check out The Apple Blog for more, and a nifty little illustration as well. Possibly Related PostsWordPress for iPhone downloaded over one hundred thousand timesiFundVC blog launches: behind the scenes with iPhone-friendly venture capitalistsLifestreaming from your iPhone

Recession or no, people surely won't stop reading the Gawker Media sites, and as long as Denton & Co. can continue to sell ads on a CPM basis, they should be able to ride this one through. October is another record high, according to the network site, clocking in at 297 million pageviews, and 22 million unique visitors. Crazy. More at the Gawker Media site, and over at Quantcast. Possibly Related PostsWeblogs, Inc is Doing Well Under AOLGawker Media Takes a Pop at Los Angeles Times' Record MonthBoing Boing Goes Offworld, Launches Videogames Blog

A recent press release concerning ArnoldIT's Google monitoring service piqued my interest. It turns out to be a nicely formatted aggregation page for Google blogs. The most recent five blog entries (or titles therefrom) are grouped together by category.

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Real-time forex market news reports and features providing other currency trading information can be accessed by clicking on any of the headlines below. At the top of the forex blog page you will find the latest forex trading information. Scroll down the

The Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 25--Jon Vincent expects more visitors to his blackfriday.info Web site this Thursday and Friday than he had all of last November. The Boston-area resident suspects that mostly has to do with shoppers hungering for

Ginger biscuit Christmas tree decorations. Photograph: Dan Lepard I know, I haven't thought about it too much either. But Christmas is on the horizon and here at Word of Mouth we thought a Christmas Q&A is called for. So on Thursday 27th, from midday

Rania listed 10 reasons for her five-month YouTube series in a spoof of the Top 10 list segment on American television's 'Late Show with David Letterman.' Among her reasons were: 'Because anything Queen Elizabeth can do, I can do better' and 'I was tired