I think you mean among the teen-boys-with-too-much-time-and-Internet-access community. Australia's technology communities have bigger collective fish to fry.

Jellyfish heaven
In the big blue sea
Where it's too cold to surf
And it's too warm to ski
Jellyfish Heaven
Is full of dead
Jellyfish

People always saying
"I won't eat jellyfish
'Cause they ain't got no bones
And you can't make a wish"
People always shouting
"Don't go swimming near those things!"
But when they're close to dying
You can hear them sing

Jellyfish heaven
Is not like Japan
Jellyfish heaven
Is not like Thailand
Jellyfish heaven
Is a lot
Like LA

You *do* realise that the Intertubes go further than the US border, don't you?

Uh, I loves the Internode, but they don't own the kind of infrastructure that's important here -- last-mile.

This is a standards effort coordinated between the IETF and W3C; see:
    http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/rtcweb/charter/
    http://www.w3.org/2010/12/webrtc-charter.html

While Google is certainly involved, it's a lot more than them, with folks from many companies (including Skype, at least pre-MSFT) participating; see:
    http://rtc-web.alvestrand.com/home/participants

"However, as the article explains, Google sees enough value in WebP to add it as a supported image format for Picasa."

s/Google/Microsoft/
s/Picasa/Windows/

Nobody's calculated the terminal velocity of an iPhone 4 yet?

Slashdot, you're getting sad in your old age...

Because the Web is more than a browser.

Fanboy? check. Paranoid delusional? check. Assert lots of absurdities with no basis? check. Good to see the Slashdot editors are maintaining their standards high here.

Speaking of high...