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Last fall, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt said that his company would aim to make at least one small acquisition every month. So far, Schmidt has followed through. Google has acquired eight companies over the past six months. The latest is Seattle-based Picnik, a hot photo utility site.

Undoubtedly someone will show up at your house or a holiday party this year bearing a gift for you; but you won't have anything, even a standby bottle of wine, to give them. So what are you to do? Last minute e-gift cards work, but they reek of, "Oops-I-forgot-about-you" to anyone who gets one time...