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Britney Spears has returned to How I Met Your Mother serial. Britney had much fun the first time and she wanted to be in a another episode.

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World Wrestling Entertainment has a pretty large fan base, and the sports entertainment company is hoping to leverage its loyal fans in the online sense as well. The official site of WWE has been around for some time, but after a few fan sites on other networks like MySpace and Facebook managed to gain a good number of users, WWE was further encouraged to add a community onto its own website. The

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Playboy.com is searching for the sexiest Girls of Olive Garden to pose for a tasty pictorial. If you’re a fan E!’s The Girls Next Door, you already know that Kendra Wilkinson is a huge fan of the Olive Garden. “I eat so many bread sticks when I go there that I can barely move when I’m done,” the beauty says. And just because Hugh’s hunny loves the Italian eatery so much, Playboy Magazine

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Lindsay Lohan wants her father to shut up. The former Disney child star is growing tired of her Bible-thumping Pop’s routine statements to the media about every aspect of her life. In his most recent sermon to the press, Michael complained that Lindsay’s mom and manager, Dina Lohan, stole the idea for her new E! reality show from a series plot that he pitched to the network years ago. Michael is

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Oprah Winfrey is going to Vegas, and she’s bringing legendary divas Cher and Tina Turner along for the ride. The Queen of Talk will hit Sin City next weekend to tape an exclusive performance special, featuring Cher and Tina, at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. The Oprah Winfrey Show: Oprah, Cher and Tina In Vegas will air on Thursday, May 8th.

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These days everyone is a curator. If you talk to any social media entrepreneurs, chances are they will go on and on about how their Website is all about letting people “curate” the Web, whether that’s photos, videos, or news stories. It is usually code for:”Most people are too lazy to actually produce anything, but we let them organize and remix what other people have produced.” Who doesn’t love

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UCLA, Florida State and Old Dominion have some incredibly sexy cheerleaders — but now it’s time for the public to decide what school has the best.Brianna | UCLA Alyssa Sponaugle | Florida StateWhitney McMillan | Old Dominion

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Spank site JackInWorld alone sports several techniques that I’ve never heard of, let alone attempted. So let’s collectively pull down our pants, close the shades, read the top techniques after the jump and rub one out, for posterity’s sake.It’s gonna get real technical from here on in…“ORAL” SIMULATIONTo simulate the feeling of lips sliding over the penis head: Lube up your erection and hold the

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YouTube is updating their policies regarding site violations, and they seem fairly level headed.First up is a change to how long strikes last on your account for violations of community guidelines. Under the old system, someone getting two strikes over the course of a year, and were facing a third, carried the same weight as someone getting those same three strikes in one week. The policy is not

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So, according to the Yale University press office, this whole Yale abortion art project…Yeah, it was a hoax. It states: Statement by Helaine S. Klasky — Yale University, Spokesperson New Haven, Conn. — April 17, 2008 Ms. Shvarts is engaged in performance art. Her art project includes visual representations, a press release and other narrative materials. She stated to three senior

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“Butt implants are the new thing, so Kim Kardashian, watch out,” Heidi Montag bellowed during her Heidiwood Clothing Line Fashion Show in Los Angeles last weekend. The Hills star wasn’t kidding when she lamented to friends that she wanted a “Jessica Biel Booty” several monts back. In late March, twenty-one year Heidi old made a top secret visit to Dr. 90210 Garth Fisher to inquire about getting

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Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson are nothing more than really close “booty buddies,” at least that’s how the Dallas Cowboys quarterback sees it. “I think Tony actually views their relationship as more of a “friends with benefits” situation than a real romance,” a Star Magazine spy says. The reluctance of Tony’s parents to accept the bubbly Jessica as a potential daughter-in-law might also be

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Casey Aldridge is marrying Jamie Lynn Spears to get his hands on the pregnant seventeen year old’s financial fortune, The National Enquirer reveals. Well there’s a surprise. Casey, a teen construction worker from rural Mississippi, is seething over his future mother-in-law, Lynne Spears’, attempt to cut him out of lucrative multi million deals to sell the first photos of his unborn baby. The teen

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Ashlee Simpson kicks off her first ever “club tour” in support of her new “Bittersweet World” LP in the latest webisode of her virtual reality series, Pepsi Smash Presents: Being…Ashlee Simpson.

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All the naysayers and unbelievers, time to eat your words! Google claimed that the US recession (ok, ok, some may not call it that, and things aren’t looking as grim as they did at one point, but the fact is the US economy still has its share of trials and tribulations ahead) doesn’t hurt them one bit, and it turns out they were right, because GOOG is currently at 535, 19% up from yesterday’s

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Did Yahoo just raise its prices for search ads? Yesterday, Yahoo made a significant change to its advertising bidding system by removing the minimum bid for sponsored search keywords. The minimum bid used to be $0.10 per keyword. Now, the minimum bid will be set more dynamically based on two factors: the quality of the advertiser and the value of the keyword. In theory, advertisers whose ads

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It isn’t surprising to us that China is censoring something. A quick scroll through the story archives will find more instances of censorship than you can shake a stick at. Therefore it only comes as a mild shock that the country has gone back on it’s word to bring down the great firewall of China. Word comes from Kenneth Tan at the Shanghaiist that “[t]wo days after Danwei reported the

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A reportedly prego Ashlee Simpson performed her new single “Little Miss Obsessive” on MTV’s Total Request Live on Thursday.

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Rumor: It’s no wonder Jessica Simpson is green with envy over the news that her twenty-three year old sister, Ashlee, will be the first of the Simpson Sisters to receive a visit from The Stork; Star Magazine claims the Blonde Ambition star recently experienced a pregnancy false alarm of her own when her Aunt Flo came to town three weeks late.The tabloid claims the twenty-seven year old singer/

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Christina Ricci’s come a long way since her day as kooky Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family film franchise. Christina, who plays a karate-loving tough girl in the new movie Speed Racer, and now she is featured on this month’s issue of Black Book Magazine-The Design Issue. “I’m a clean freak. I get really excited when things are clean, and I love sorting stuff. I love folding laundry in front

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Montreal based MediaScrape, a Google News meets video translation service has taken $3.2 million in a new round from we don’t know who, for total funding or over how many rounds we have no idea either. MediaScrape’s new service is updated every 30 minutes and gives users full control on the way they receive their news, from on demand through to regional loops. The company syndicates content from

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Rumors about the acquisition of Farecast are accurate - in a very brief blog post CEO Hugh Crean says they’ve been acquired by Microsoft. SeattlePI, which first broke the rumor last week, says the price tag was $115 million. While the two companies are an understandable fit given their proximity and partnership over MSN Travel, SeattlePI reports that Farecast entertained multiple offers before

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Very few would argue with the statement that video is hot right now. From the cultural phenomenon of YouTube, through to the rise of live streaming services, money is pouring into startups from content creators through to service providers. Getting into video isn’t as easy as setting up a blog, so here’s some advice of which direction to head in. The basics Obviously you’ll need a camera to get

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Blog search engine Technorati was days away from merging with blog network b5media when the whole deal blew up earlier this week, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. Technorati has been searching for a new strategy ever since it appointed CEO Richard Jalichandra last October. It was recently trying to raise an additional round of financing, and pitching venture capitalists

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What’s the first thing Amazon does to counter the launch of Google App Engine? Makes sure its current customers are happy just where they are by providing two premium tech support packages. AWS users can now pay for either a silver or gold level of support. Both packages offer “fast and predictable response times, an unlimited number of support cases, and personalized support from our team of

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Hayden Panettiere slips into a tank, an orange bra, and a pair of denim short shorts while shooting scenes for her new movie, I Love You, Beth Cooper, on Wednesday in Vancouver, Canada.

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Britney and Kevin are making a serious go of rekindling their one-time love, one celebrity weekly claims. The divorced former couple are reportedly seeing a therapist. On April 5th, the couple sat down with a therapist in Britney’s dining room for an intense talk, a Star Magazine report reads. “Brit and Kevin spoke really openly to each other for almost two hours,” says an tabloid insider. “

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In the cut-throat world of naked old lady calendars, it’s really the luck of the draw — or not being old/attractive enough for anyone to want one.Citing the success of a group of British women, who “made more than a million pounds and worldwide headlines when they came up with the idea of a discreet nude calendar for 2000 to raise money for leukemia research.Their story was made into a hit movie,

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Dank Apps, the company behind the Lotto application on Facebook, has rolled out a series of new applications called Social Change that give a significant portion of proceeds to charity. The initial set of apps consists of: The Clinton Global Initiative—HIV/AIDS Initiative - Earn For AIDS Breast Cancer Research Foundation - Earn For Breast Cancer The Nature Conservatory - Stop Climate

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Google reported earnings for the first quarter. The fears of a meltdown were overblown. Revenue was $5.2 billion, up 42 percent year-over-year and up 7 percent from the fourth quarter in 2007. After traffic acquisition costs (what Google pays its publisher partners) revenues directly to Google were $3.7 billion. Net income for the quarter was $1.31 billion, up 8 percent from the fourth

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Having been in operation for about 4-5 months now, Amazingtunes (beta) purports to have a community of 50,000+ users, which, on its face, seems rather quaint. But given the niche that it occupies, the number is fairly impressive. The company also says that it expects the site, which it promotes as “iTunes unsigned,” to expand to “over four million (users) within 12 months.” And while we ourselves

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Hilary Duff is featured on the May 2008 cover of Allure Magazine. The former Lizzie McGuire star discusses the perils of young stardom with the monthly women’s mag. “I’m not 13, 14, or 15 anymore. I’m not a perfect, prude girl. I like to do things that 20-year-olds do.”

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Jessica Simpson, drinking excessively? Star Magazine claims the buxom blonde’s bout with a kidney infection last month was the result of several months of hard partying and heavy drinking with new man Tony Romo. But Jess may be quickly learning that she doesn’t have the stuff to party with the big boys. “She was treated for a kidney infection, a bladder infection, and a urinary tract infection…

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Retired cum rag Jenna Jameson and saggy snatch lips appeared on The View on Thursday. Jenna is promoting her new film Zombie Strippers, which the blonde describes as having subtle “political undertones.” Yeah, we can totally see the connection between politics and a film with the word “Stripper” in the title. The film also stars A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Robert Englund. Oh how far Freddy has

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Actress Elisha Cuthbert is featured on the sizzling May 2008 cover of Maxim Magazine, which is being toted The Ultimate Movie Issue.

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Fire-up your engines of belligerent indignation, here comes the craziest sh*t you’ve ever heard: The Yale Daily News reports today that senior Art Major Aliza Shvarts “artificially inseminated herself ‘as often as possible’ while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages.” This, over nine-months, as documentation for her exhibition, which projects videos of her miscarriages

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Admittedly, asking who should be the next director of future media and technology for the BBC in an online poll was a slightly flippant move. However, the results are kind’ve interesting - even though they probably say more about the TechCrunch audience than anything else. So the winner is Ian Forrester of BBC Backstage who has a sizable Geek following (perhaps accounting for his online-oriented

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Well, we knew the day would come when Blockbuster got sued for participating in Facebook’s Beacon advertising program, and that day is here. According to MediaPost, Texas resident Cathryn Elaine Harris is pretty pissed that Blockbuster is sharing her purchase and rental activity with friends on Facebook.With allegations that Blockbuster’s use of Beacon violates her rights as deemed by the federal

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The inimitable phenomenon known as internal combustion is responsible for many unappealing things that plague the globe. Industrial waste. War. Virtual torrents of angels’ tears. But none is more a challenge to the progress of the human race than the creeping, crawling, abhorrent thing we call roadway traffic. Yes, bumper-to- bumper is in fact the ultimate bane of society, and the engineers at

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MySpace is on another launching rampage. Days after its localized site release in Korea, MySpace reveals MySpace India, officially launching its localized site with a rock concert in Mumbai and all the other music-ridden pomp and circumstance for which MySpace has come to be known. As with the majority of other localized MySpace launches, its more popular verticals for music and video content

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Buzznet has been busy the past couple of months. The company has managed to secure some $25m in fresh funding, and it has so far acquired a number of entities, including Qloud, a creator of Web-based music applications, the former Gawker Media property Idolator, and Stereogum. Today we hear of Buzznet’s new partnership with Universal Music Group. Universal, which purchased a portion of equity in

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TheBlackApp is billing itself as “the first iPhone consumer network,” and by the look of their homepage, which I’ve been linked to a few times over the past couple weeks by various iPhone fanboys, my first thought was that this was an iMarketingGimick. But, I’ve been able to track down a few, admittedly still vague details about what the company is planning to launch on June 5th. As you can see

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SezWho, the comment-tracking service, is layering in a great deal of support for a new platform approach; aside from adding support for phpBB to extend its capabilities to participating forums, SezWho is also launching a new developer toolkit for added support across more social media platforms. What’s more, SezWho now includes RSS feeds, so you also have the capabilities of tracking feeds as

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