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You may have heard us mention it on the show, and you may have noticed us littering comments around the web yesterday, but what does it all mean? Must Comment Monday is back!

What is it?

You see these things all the time: Photo Friday, Talky Tuesday, Question Saturday. Some of them are genuinely cool things to take part in , and some of them are just a way for people to come up with ideas to fill their blogs. Sidepodcast doesn’t like to miss out on anything, so we’re resurrecting one of the best: Must Comment Monday.

This is something that I came up with, back in the days before Sidepodcast - those long, long hours spent thinking about things other than Formula 1. What was that like? With the demise of my personal blog, Must Comment Monday went out the window as well. But it was a good idea, and that’s why we’re bringing it back.

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Building upon the success of the F1 Minute Wordpress Widget and continuing our obsession with all things Facebook related, today we’re announcing the Facebook Player for F1 Minute.

In Profile

The application builds upon the idea that anyone can share F1 Minute and has been designed for Facebook users looking for free Formula 1 content to add to their pages.

We’ve already installed it onto our profile, so if you’re curious how it looks and works feel free to take a peek. At the moment it’s sitting on the widest part of the page, and looks a bit like this:

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During this week’s show we discussed the pending launch of official social networking sites from F1 teams Honda and Renault.

In the end, little came of earthdreams.info, but as our discussion was mostly based on speculation we can’t really blame the team for that. It may still happen, but at the moment it doesn’t look as though there will be much social dreaming from Honda in the short term.

Fan Site

Renault on the other hand did manage to launch their site. I couldn’t access it until today, a full two days after its promised debut, but I’m in now and that’s all that matters.

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