This week, we dig into Atlassian buying The Browser Company, whether Pay Per Crawl makes sense, and Oracle’s cloud jackpot. Plus, a quick lesson in Aussie slang.

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Runner-up Titles

"I have a plan to make things slightly better.”
Matt Ray comes off the top rope
We are in that demographic
Flip-flops, thongs, and slides.
No Translation Needed
Do we have a fashion channel?
Why not us too?
Let’s just try it
Hooters adjacent tech story
Pay-per-crawl.
I don’t know how DNS works, nobody does
Cool, copyright, I love it
Just lots of weird stuff going on.
Y’all are weird

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Nonsense

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