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Facebook for sale
The battle for young
eyeballs isn't yet over. After Myspace, wacko interface aside, got bought by
Rupert Murdoch for $500 million, it seems everyone else wants a piece of that action. So here comes the new old kid on
the block, Facebook, now
officially for sale. BusinessWeek's astute observation that Facebook would be a match made in heaven with Viacom,
owners of MTV, VH1, and Nickelodeon. That's so obvious it hurts, but what remains to be seen is whether Viacom is
interested, or if they'll pay the nearly $1 billion bounty Facebook really desires. Wait, nearly a billion?
Yep, Facebook has already turned down a $750 million offer from before. They don't think too much of themselves, do
they? Then again, they beat MySpace in SEOmoz's Web 2.0 awards, so maybe they are worth it...
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
