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We have also been nominated for four Nokia Digital Media awards. Two for our Bavaria Mickey Rourke campaign and another two for our “Get Protected” game for the Crisis Pregnancy Agency.

Massive demand for the computer has caused the website of one supplier to crash under the weight of heavy traffic.

Social image-sharing site Pinterest, especially beloved by 18-34 year old women, has passed the 10 million user mark after only 9 months. TechCrunch reports that Pinterest had 11.7 million unique monthly visitors in January 2012, up from only 7.5 million in December 2011 and 418,000 last May. That’s the fastest growth ever for an independent site.

Last September at F8, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Facebook had reached the 800m member milestone.

“Looking at the data from 2006-mid-2008, it looks like Facebook was growing at an exponential rate, however, more recent data suggests it’s growing in a linear fashion.”

Lyons said Facebook’s growth has slowed or stopped in early adopter countries like the US and UK.

“However, developing countries such as India and Brazil have shown strong growth, with India growing from 22m users to 36m and Brazil going from 13m to 30m in the last nine months.”

“Both are large countries with millions of potential users who have yet to sign up to Facebook, with only 3pc of India’s population on Facebook and 16pc of Brazil’s (compared to 49pc of America’s population or 47pc of the UK’s population), countries such as these will clearly contribute heavily to Facebook’s continued growth,” Lyons said.

Netflix officially launched in the U.K. and Ireland on Sunday night. They didn’t reveal how big its catalog in both countries is, but a blog post penned by the company’s chief product officer Neil Hunt mentioned shows like Prison Break and Damages as well as films 3:10 to Yuma and The English Patient as examples for content being available through the service.

Netfix holds a dominant position in the US, where it accounts for almost a third of all bandwidth consumed. Anything less than market dominance here would be considered a failure. Standing in its way are illegal file sharing, console platforms like Xbox LIVE, Apple TV, rent-by-post service Screenclick and catch-up websites like RTE Player and 4OD.

At €6.99 per month (first month free for now), their flat rate subscription is less than the price of a single cinema ticket or rental of two new releases from the high street. It’s also cheaper than renting through Apple TV and Xbox LIVE and should have a far better catalogue. As iTunes has demonstrated, even when technology makes piracy simple, people are happy to part with money for a safe, convenient, legal alternative.

Unlike the U.S. offering, users in the UK and Ireland will be able to connect their accounts to Facebook to share their viewing habits and receive recommendations from friends. Netflix hasn’t launched similar functionality in the U.S. yet due to an outdated privacy law.

Will Netflix clean up in Ireland? It’s cheap enough to be a painless addition to anyone’s home entertainment set-up and is a feasible alternative to subscription movie channel packages. If anything, Netflix will force the home entertainment sphere to better itself, and that will only be a good thing for customers.

You can expect to see the ads appear starting some time this month. Facebook indicates that you’ll only see ads from brands you’ve interacted with via likes, comments, or being a fan.
Facebook spokesperson Annie Ta said, “You will never a post from a page you are not a fan of, or from people who are not your friends. We want to be really thoughtful about this, so we’ll have a lot of rate limits in place.”