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Here are some interesting links from today:

• Massive Christmas iPod Touch Sales Boost App Store Downloads
  Apple's new iPod Touch appears to have been a huge hit this holiday season with evidence that the high end iPod has seen massive gains in marketshare.

  The first impact was seen in early sales numbers for App Store applications on Christmas day. The #1 ranked App Store application (iFart Mobile) saw a tripling of sales from 13,000 units a day to almost 39,000 units on Christmas day. This growth in sales, however, was not just isolated to the #1 spot and was seen across the entire App Store. Several game developers on TouchArcade.com reported sales boosts of 3x-4x across all titles, even for titles not in the top 100 listings.

• PS3 unable to hold its own against Wii, Xbox 360 this holiday season
  Considering the way that the Wii flew off shelves last month, this next item probably won't come as a shock to anyone. According to the Wall Street Journal, both Nintendo's console and the Xbox 360 trounced the PS3 in holiday sales, with U.S. sales falling nine percent from this month last year. During this same period, sales doubled for the Wii and rose eight percent for the Xbox 360.

In case you haven’t seen one of the 50 different DTV commercials that are on every other hour or you need more information on how it’s going to work… check out this video.

Here’s part one of the new Microsoft Ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates.  Guess they’re just building the characters right now.

Can you spot the Bill Gates mug shot?

Here’s a hilarious video produced by CrunchGear. If you’ve used Twitter for more than 3 days chances are you’ve seen the “Fail Whale”… Twitter’s effective blue screen of death. If Twitter users jump ship to one of it’s competitors, horrid server response will be the reason. (slight subtitle language warning)

Not sure what Twitter is? Here’s the best explanation.

With this simple “hack” anyone can go from zero to 500, 5000, 50,000 subscribers in a single day!  Well, at least that’s what your Feedburner badge will say.  It’s quite obvious that you would be able to subscribe to your own feed and inflate your numbers but who’d have thought it could be this easy?

I may have a couple thousand subscribers by tomorrow .

Here’s the original article on TechCrunch.