• 986 objectives completed – one of them apparently not “getting a girlfriend”
• 390,895 creatures killed – none of them as scary as the mean, evil bullies at school source

• First a rumor, now a done deal. We posted about this two hours ago, and now it’s actually real. Apple, which has the pretty killer iPhone along with a music service which feels a little dated in the wake of services like Spotify and Lala, is ready to take on one of those startups. Lala’s cloud-based approach makes a ton of sense considering the iPhone app that the service has reportedly been working on for months. Lala’s super-embeddable approach (which we use) and Web-based interface also feel infinitely simpler compared to iTunes’ walled garden interface. We can’t wait. source

• 50% more ad clicks from Google searches source

NOTE: This little tip comes from Chikita, a site we use and recommend for ads. We’ll say that for sake of disclosure or something. There’s something to be said about blogger transparency.

• 350 million people are on Facebook – they hit the amazing mark this week
• 69
  million people are on Farmville – which is incredibly lame and pathetic source

• So what’s in it for Digg? While the company might sacrifice some page views, it could get an even better sense of the content being blasted around the Web.
• Forbes Senior Editor Brian Caulfield • On Digg’s new API, which is designed to make it stupidly easy to Digg posts all over the Webb. (Whoops, sorry, we put that extra “b” on “Web” by accident.) Caulfield argues that the site is attempting at a decentralized approach much like Twitter with the move – a move that could help journalism significantly. source

• 20
  million people play FishVille, which only came out in November and relies on micropayments
• $200 million the amount of money FishVille’s creator, Zynga, will likely make this year; REALLY? source

• OK, this is pretty cool. Jack Dorsey, one of the guys behind Twitter, has another startup which promises to revolutionize the process of credit/debit transactions. It’s a tiny square. It requires an audio jack. That’s it. Like Twitter, it’s dead simple. Unlike Twitter, it’s not a super-esoteric concept at the outset, begging people to figure out why it’s necessary. It just makes sense. Kudos. Could someone give us a reason to use this? source

• kindled Amazon’s Kindle has had a killer month, despite the fact that the Nook is on everyone’s lips.
• nooked Barnes and Noble’s e-book reader still hasn’t shipped yet, missing Black Friday entirely.
• crunched And this one sucks. Michael Arrington’s dream of a Crunchpad has died. Sadly. 🙁

• 1.18 trillion electric volts of big-banging action source