It had to happen: "FakeYourSpace is an exciting new service that enables normal everyday people like me and you to have Hot friends on popular social networking sites such as MySpace and FaceBook. Not only will you be able to see these Gorgeous friends on your friends list, but FakeYourSpace enables you to create customized messages and comments for our Models to leave you on your comment wall. FakeYourSpace makes it easy for any regular person to make it seem like they have a Model for a friend."

Cell phone as artistic platform (via Textually): "Up until now most people are used to take pictures with their mobile camera and use that as wallpaper. Thanks to FlashLite - an application that does all sorts of animated magic and is now so common on Japanese gadgets - artists take over this tiny screen and create their version of an animated wallpaper, screensaver or calendar. Or they even create designs for the menu trying to find new ways of customizing the mobile user interface."

They can indeed, and I hope they do. But our experience, sitting in the middle of a hub for Flash development and trying to provoke some excitement around this, is that there's limited enthusiasm for mobile Flash amongst the wider Flash community.

Vodafone's Social Connections: "Wireless-phone giant Vodafone (VOD) will let customers use their mobile phones to gain access to online social networking services, BusinessWeek.com has learned"

About time too. Vodafone have for a long time made it difficult for social networking services to connect with their customers, thanks in part to concerns about access to adult content and the need for moderation.

Changing Mobile Gaming Habits: "Mobile phone games are played on the move (61%) almost as much as they are played at home (62%). Also, mobile phone gamers are making the most of their idle time with 56% preferring to play while waiting."

Ah, Friday. My old enemy - we meet again.

This weekend we did our best to kill Friday once and for all. In celebration of my cousin Dan and chum Wills' birthdays (34 and 21 respectively - mind the generation gap!) a crowd of reprobates descended upon Rosehill. No-one is quite claiming responsibility for the school disco theme, or indeed anything else that evening, but suffice it to say that we experienced punch with a kick, a welcome lack of fighting, random German sailors, at least one suspected inter-pal coupling, and some of the most frightening schoolgirls I think I'll ever see (thanks Dave and Nick).

I threw everyone out at 9:30 on Saturday morning, looked around, and wept inwardly at the thought of waking up in the midst of what can best be described as "Tunguska with shelving". Decamped to Sophie's for the day, slept, watched Amelie, ate Chinese food, slept more, and finally crept back the next day to tidy up. A crowd of folks came round to help - thanks guys! - and we rounded off the festivities with a trip to the Open House for luncheon. Sunday finished with aikido and a 5-man randori... great fun.

Cheers to everyone who came to the party - you are all beautiful and unique snowflakes, old faces and new.

And if anyone has the contact details for the guy whose name I forgot who works for Symbian, can you put him in touch with me?

Update: more evidence here