Orkut, the social networking site has provoked a state of war between GenY and its parents. Half of Brazil and most of teenage India has signed up. There’s an iconic picture of the Turkish founder relieving himself against a tree. Orkut contains many good forums and communities — and there’s also the Telugu incest group, a strictly-moderated community of 2,700-very odd members

P is for the PS3 or the PSP (depending on your Budget ). The PSP is being touted as the best mini DVD-quality movie screen. The PS3 is being touted as this unbelievable piece of hardware, which comes with an equally unbelievable price-tag. The games more expensive than the hardware

Query is at the heart of Google but there’s also Accoona, Yahoo, Technorati and Dogpile

R-streaming radio-aka Pandora and all its clones. Broadband, headphones and a multitude of multimedia devices means that streaming radio has become the norm

S for satellite TV, most metro-dwelling Indians will claim but it stands for SecondLife, a virtual world with nearly three million residents, a brilliantly constructed free economy and currency that’s convertible to real money

T has to be for the Tunisian Prison Map — an interactive mashup map of Tunisian detention centres built on the backbone of Google Earth maps and Amnesty International reports. The New York Times did one of murder locations in NY; several people did the Ipswich UK serial killings. It’s a new artform

UMD — the universal media disk from Sony is the latest attempt to prevent digital piracy. Sony hasn’t released burners or blank disks of the 1.8Gb format. But the format’s already been cracked — so sorry!

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