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I went to this new supermarket next to my place, to find it filled with imported chocolate that looked like Galaxy but is called Dove, and is also from Mars snackfood, USA.
It turns out that outside the USA the Dove brand is sold as Galaxy (except for certain countries, including China, Canada, Australia, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands, where it is sold as Dove). Thanks wikipedia.
According to a tweet today by Twitter CEO Evan Williams, today is a “very big day.” Williams will be appearing on the Oprah talk show. Elsewhere on Twitter, prominent twittizen Ashton Kutcher, tweeted that he too will be “twittering live” with Oprah tomorrow, concluding his tweet with: “Gentleman start your search engines. LOL.“
Now, It seems to me that both tweeters may be hinting at subtly what they cannot say outright: That Williams will announce Google’s acquisition of the microblogging service on the Oprah show or sometime before the show.
Kutcher has only 140 characters or less to tell fans he’s going to be Twittering on Oprah, and in that cramped space references “search engines” followed by “LOL”? Unless we’re being punk’d, I’d say that was a pretty blatant hint. If so, they’re not the only ones dropping hints. Google CEO Eric Schmidt conspicuously “heaped praise upon” Twitter in that company’s earnings call. There’s no way he’d be doing that unless he wanted to secure a major deal of some kind with Twitter, or has already done so.
Any of these hints by itself wouldn’t mean anything, but all three together make me believe that the rumored acquisition hits tomorrow. Then, a friend burst my bubble and said: Tomorrow will be the day or even tonight when the first person on Twitter breaks a million followers. It’s a race between @aplusk and @cnnbrk.
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We all think we’re going to be great. And we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren’t met. But, sometimes, our expectations sell us short.
Sometimes, the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected.
You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations. Because the expected is just what keeps us steady… standing… still. The expected is just the beginning.
The unexpected… is what changes our lives.”
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