The grass is always greener in the digital world! First Facebook got all schizophrenic with homepate overhauls (and privacy setting catastrophes) in an attempt to be more like Twitter — really, at this point, it’s a bit of a crap shoot what your Facebook page may look like on a daily basis there have been so many overhauls. And now Google apparently wants to be the next Facebook.

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Paul Krugman of the New York Times is calling this economic decade ‘The Big Zero ,’ saying “It was a decade in which nothing good happened.” Paul and I smoke insanely different tobacco. As an entrepreneur that has managed a hedge fund now for 11 plus years through bubbles and crashes, I almost take offense.

Much like the #gmailfail hashtag, every other office in New York, and possibly everyone in the world, we here at Mediaite, Inc. are disheartened and profoundly terrified by the sudden shutdown of Gmail. How will we get work done? More importantly, how will we make insidery status updates and send funny links to each other [...]

The fourth horseman of the apocalypse has arrived! Gmail is down, sending waves of panic through the media world. Google is apparently working on the problem. Twitter meanwhile is full #gmailfail mode. Have the Georgian rebels decided to aim for the really big whale this time? Will Obama have to turn off the Internet to save us? If we can’t g-chat do we exist? It’s unclear. In the meantime reactions from the Twitterverse at large.