Zynga’s First Super Bowl Commercial … Kind Of

Zynga’s popular puzzle game Words With Friends was featured in Best Buy’s Super Bowl commercial yesterday, calling attention to the game’s founders as some of the “greatest mobile innovators.”
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Hulu’s Alien MushyMush Plot Is Back for the Super Bowl With Will Arnett

What’s better than mushymush? Much more #Mushymush.
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Alec Baldwin Addresses Words With Friends-Gate by Spelling S-N-L (Video)

While hosting “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, Alec Baldwin apologized for the meltdown that resulted in him getting kicked off a plane. Except that it wasn’t much of an apology at all.
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Zynga Makes Big Claims With IPO Only a Week Away

How about doubling the number of paying gamers? Done!
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Don’t Put a Flight Attendant Between Alec Baldwin and Words With Friends

Actor Alec Baldwin loves Zynga’s hit game Words With Friends, but right now he’s not too crazy about American Airlines, which he says booted him off a flight for playing while sitting at the gate.
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Viral Video: Yankees Versus Red Sox, Celeb-Style!

Here is a very funny ad for a baseball cap company with actors Alec Baldwin (he of the New York Yankees persuasion) and John Krasinski (a Boston Red Sox fanatic) getting us ready for the 2011 season. (By the way, you must still Fear the Beard.)

Pay for Web TV? No Problem! Hulu Plus "Exceeding Expectations"

CEO Jason Kilar says he’s found plenty of takers for his premium service. But why pay Hulu at all, when you can get it for free on your PC? It’s a core question for the service and for Web video in general.

Another Twitter Business That Doesn’t Make Money for Twitter: Pay Per Twitterer

Yet another addition to the Twitter ecosystem of companies based on the microblogging service, but that don’t pay it a dime: Pontiflex, which is trying to charge marketers for each Twitter user name it collects.
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Hulu’s Super Bowl Pump Fake: Not Coming to an iPod Near You

Is Hulu coming to your iPhone? Or your iPod? That would be pretty sweet! But contrary to what some of us thought when we saw the video service’s first-ever TV ad yesterday, it’s not happening anytime soon. In retrospect, the tentacle should have tipped us off.

Sarah Palin Plays Sarah Palin on SNL and Nails It

Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin did a very smooth–if sweetly awkward–job in her appearance on “Saturday Night Live” last night. It was a good decision to go low key and also do a bit of stunt casting by bringing in Mark Wahlberg, who was mocked in an impersonation last week by SNL, and also Alec Baldwin. Palin also appeared later, rocking out to a very funny rap. Sometimes politics can be really ugly and sometimes silly–this time Palin managed to poke fun at herself without being either.