Stephen Colbert Finds Another Revenue Stream for Facebook

“Now Amercians can whore themselves out on Facebook, instead of just whoring themselves out on Craigslist.” Not really a parody, actually.

Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot

Ad.ly thinks there’s big money to be made getting celebrities like Charlie Sheen to sell stuff using social media. But it says Facebook won’t let it set up shop.

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How Does Twitter Verify Celebrity Accounts?

While Twitter continues to give celebrities, athletes, musicians, actors and others a platform to directly connect with their fans, the social networking site remains tight-lipped about how it determines if those stars are really who they say they are.

Twitter's "Quickbar Uprising" Is Nothing: Wait Till The Ads Really Show Up

Twitter responds to angry Twitterati by tweaking its new iPhone app in a way that won’t appease the angry Twitterati at all. A preview of what’s to come…

Viral Video: Fallon Does Sheen Does "Winning" Perfume

While BoomTown has had just about enough of the media frenzy around the wacky ruminations of actor Charlie Sheen, this spot-on impersonation of the high-on-life-and-other-stuff star by late-night television talk show host Jimmy Fallon is worth a watch. It’s for a perfume called, of course, “Winning.”

Viral Video: Charlie Sheen, Of Course, Taiwanesed

Well, this is a slam dunk for the fine folks at Next Media Animation and their CGI geniuses. Charlie Sheen’s life should always be animated.

Woz Lives to Stumble Around, Oops, Tango, Another Day!

Getting a foot fracture, pulling a hamstring, claiming there was a voting conspiracy, getting an abysmal score of 10 out of 30 from the judges (the lowest score ever) and, of course, dancing with as much grace as a block of cement were not enough to sink the Good Ship Wozniak last night on “Dancing With the Stars.” Instead, the people spoke loud and proud for continued goofiness by voting for the clod-hopping Apple co-founder in droves and tossing off actress and Charlie Sheen nemesis, Denise Richards. Next up: Tango Argentina! Or, most likely in Woz’s version: Mangled Argentina.
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