“Notice that we didn’t talk about Valentine’s day being the nerds we are…” My co-host Erik Boyer said this just as we finished recording, Happy Valentine’s Day everybody! Today we talk a lot about social networks, and Google giving you internet. (waits for someone to ask, “Isn’t Google already the internet?”)

The Soviet Russia joke that we decided on was “In Soviet Russia virus uninstalls YOU!”

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Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with networksite

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8506148.stm

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10450487-2.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10449662-265.html

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=30606

MySpace CEO out after less than a year

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10451439-93.html

Facebook opens chat, and AIM plugs in

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000060-264.htm

Google: Your next ISP?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000061-264.html

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html

AT&T selects LTE equipment suppliers, ‘commercial deployment’ planned for 2011

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/atandt-selects-lte-equipment-suppliers-commercial-deployment-pl/

New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals

http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/1337238/New-Russian-Botnet-Tries-To-Kill-Rivals

Appeals Court Rules On Internet Obscenity Standards

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/10/0140245/Appeals-Court-Rules-On-Internet-Obscenity-Standards

Study toasts beer as being good for your bones

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6180B120100209