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After a great first week in Kuala Lumpur, one of my new friends in Mudah took me to afterwork drinks. I couldn’t resist posting this picture taken in the men’s room.

Singapore is all about food, and shopping malls. This was my lunch today (among other things); Fish Head Curry. Really good, especially the fish eye.

Susanne Sundfør. Amazing.

Singapore has been great so far. Food is important here, and it is really good as well. Also, I really like the temperature, even though it’s a bit humid. This is a picture of the menu in a restaurant next to where I live. So far I’ve only eaten the heart and liver of a chicken.

After numerous rumors about Google’s “in Gmail live feed social thing feature”, it’s was launched today as Google Buzz. With more than 146 million Gmail users (June 2009), I’m pretty sure that this will be included in the 2010 Internet web trend summary next January. I’ve added a shortcut to the mobile web version on the first screen on my iPhone already, and will try to buzz a bit from now on.

Adding buzzing to the list will make me a person who mail, call, text, email, blog, tweet, tumble and buzz if I got something to say.

It would be really nice to go to Sundance Film Festival one year. As for now, I have to settle with Official Selections published on YouTube (see their account here). This one makes me want to go back to New Orleans, and even though I’m not crazy about vegetables, I want to buy some from Mr. Okra.

Interesting article by Read Write Web, showing how Facebook passes e.g. Google News as traffic source for news sites and is becoming an important news source.

Quoting Hitwise’s Heather Hopkins (2. Feb 2010): “Last week, Google Reader accounted for .01% of upstream visits to News and Media websites, about the same level as a year ago. Google News accounted for 1.39% of visits and Facebook 3.52%. Facebook was the #4 source of visits to News and Media sites last week, after Google, Yahoo! and msn. News and Media is the #11 downstream industry after Facebook, receiving 3.69% of the social networking site’s traffic. To offer a comparison, 6% of downstream traffic from Facebook went to Shopping and Classifieds last week and 6% to Business and Finance and 15% went to Entertainment websites (YouTube in particular).”

Out of curiosity I checked how the interest (search) has changed over time for different social networking sites using Google Insight for Search.

A fascinating result when matching these lines is that after Facebook picks up in 2008, the correlation between Facebook’s search trend and the cannibalizing trend of MySpace / Bebo (big in English speaking countries) is respectively -0,96 and -0,94. Another interesting result is how nicely these lines match the S-curve models for diffusion of innovation.

Documentary about immigration in Norway the past 40 years (in Norwegian). Absolutely worth seeing.

13th of February I will see First Aid Kit play at Parkteateret in Oslo (check them out on Myspace).