Is Australian idol not harvesting enough raw Aussie talent in our backyard? The latest news from the Australian idol camp is that Kyle Sanders will be holding auditions in LA and Dicko will hit London to sniff out talented Aussies living abroad.

Can our friends in the US keep Kyle?

Want to have a good old chin wag with other Aussies on TV.com? News hot off the press is that we've created a new forum espcially for this purpose. Point your browser here and go introduce yourself:

http://www.tv.com/australia/board/90003/topics.html?tag=boards;title;1

Stay tuned folks, we'll be having more in the near future!

With the Commodore 64 turning 25 this year, and its legacy installed in the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley this week it was a sobering thought that I'm an old gamer. Back then I didn't pay for games (I was 4-5) but interestingly gaming was pretty pricey compared to today's standards. A c64 would go for around $800. $800 in today's cash probably isn't that outragous, but, back in the olden days of the 80's it was, well I don't have time to think of a real conversion...but lots more. It's probably fair to say games are more expensive, but then again many games are comparable to making mega budget films these days...

Anywho, cheers to the C64!

Here is the original Australian ad:

and here is the a tribute to the 64. Ah, the memories...

The folks over at ZDNet Australia have a new mobile tennis game up and running which you can download for free. Better still, when you submit your results you can compare your results with your everyone else playing online. And the winner? They'll get a free trip to the Australian Open in January. Not bad. Not bad at all. http://www.zdnet.com.au/special/grandslam/

Lately I've been messing around with Facebook and the possibilities available to add your own applications to the platform. As kind of an experiment a few of us behind GameSpot AU have developed a little test or game we call the Broadband Speed Challenge.

http://apps.facebook.com/speedchallenge/

The Broadband Speed Challenge lets users test their connection speed, add results to a profile, and compare results to your Facebook friends. The application graphs the results for users to easily see how their connection rates against their friends.

If you're on Facebook check it out and compare your broadband speed to your friends.