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Four feet from a rat. An episodic London-based graphic novel from Mother. Give ‘em a 5 spot and they’ll send you a print copy (if 999 other people sign up.)

Top tens are ubiquitous. The ordered list is now the defacto unit of internet content, and whether or not you like it, you’ve got to admire Time magazine for taking the idea to its logical conclusion.

Metacafe bets on the power of wikis. This is an interesting response to the increasing market dominance of YouTube, and though I hesitate to bringing up splogging, the cynic in me feels that Metacafe’s move has quite a lot to do with boosting their results in Google.

Twitter crosses the chasm, jumps the shark or sells out to the man, depending upon your respective viewpoint.

Swype’s a touchscreen typing application which allows the user to slide across the keyboard to form words. The creators (who also invented predictive text) claim that a user can get up to 40 words per minute after a couple of days’ practice.

This slightly ropey video shows Swype in action.

via Johnny Holland