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So Google thought they were smart by redirecting China users to their Hong Kong website. Oops. With all the brains and PhDs at Google, someone forgot to tell them that Hong Kong was handed back to China in the 90s. Very smart.
Oh wait…Google is the world. Google to China: “Together we can rule the galaxy…

Yes, you know who you are …

Lyrics:
Awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome…
I don’t necessarily have to be here for this…
I’m gonna keep the headphones though…
Mother fucker I’m awesome!
No you’re not, dude don’t lie
I’m awesome!
I’m drivin around in my mom’s ride
I’m awesome!
A quarter of my life gone by
And I met all my friends online
Mother fucker I’m…

We get a lot (3 is a lot) of  hate fan mail here at Techwankers. One recent one was from a Techcrunch reader that raised the question if MG Siegler is also a writer on Techwankers. We were surprised that someone made a connection between us and the holy grail of tech blog.

The Techwankers writers…

We are all sold into the ‘Don’t Be Evil’ motto of Google. And we happily use their products – its great – but mainly because it is FREE!!
Well, as this video clearly shows, Google is slowly getting us ‘hooked’ on their crack. And like all drugs – it’ll get you in the end. Nothing is…

For those of you geeks that get more radiation from your computer screen than the sun, you know Chat Roulette is a recent buzz going around. Basically, video chat with random strangers that you can easily “change” when you get bored. Just like girlfriends.
According to those nice people at TC, the stats look like this:…

So techcrunch just reported that Ning’s Gina Bianchini have been ‘relieved’ as Ning’s CEO.

We want to reach out to Gina – there is always an opening here at techwankers. Brains and T+A – we welcome it. Although we never knew what you  contributed over at Ning, we don’t care. I am sure we can find…

When the economy is bad and jobs are scarce, what do people do?
Do what everyone else does. Go back to school. Makes perfect sense – go back while you got the time to invest in yourself… so you can come back out when the economy recovers when the job market is back to normal and…

If you are reading this blog – then it is very likely you are on facebook (they are slowly becoming the new evil empire).

One thing I absolutely HATE are people whom I briefly met or never met trying to friend me. These are the sad people of society. Their main objective to grow a large…

For developers, we are constantly being hassled by head hunters and recruiters. The demand for a good developer is very high – and the supply is low (excluding the mediocre developers out there – you know who you are).  Good developers all have a common trait – they are smart! So to attract them, you…

Thanks to brilliant, financially savvy Colorado politicians, Amazon had to let go 4,200 of it affiliates:
DENVER — Amazon.com Inc. cut ties Monday with Colorado online businesses that help it sell products because of a new state law aimed at getting out-of-state, online retailers to collect sales tax.
The move hurts businesses — many of them small,…