5 posts and columns on Rihanna

Play “American Idol” From the Comfort of Your Phone With StarMaker Karaoke App (Video)

in Social on September 2, 2011 at 9:30 am PT

A neat karaoke iPhone app called StarMaker will let you lay down your voice to today’s hottest pop songs, with a little — or a lot of — help from Auto-Tune.

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Tiger Woods's Online Rep Takes a Hit

in News on December 2, 2009 at 9:45 am PT

The ongoing coverage of Tiger Woods after his car accident last week has taken a toll on his online reputation, digital-marketing firm Zeta Interactive said. The New York agency monitors blogs, tweets and other online posts to gauge positive and negative “buzz” about celebrities, companies and other topics. Mr. Woods’s buzz rating was overwhelmingly (91 percent) positive prior to the accident but has since dipped to 74 percent positive, 26 percent negative.

Mossberg Does Moby: Video and More!

in News on August 11, 2009 at 1:43 am PT

Last night, onstage at Lincoln Center in Manhattan, my most excellent partner, Walt Mossberg, interviewed well-known techno musician Moby about music and entertainment in the digital age. The wide-ranging talk was part of an ongoing cultural festival series organized by The Wall Street Journal, called Summer Scoops Live. Here are some video clips of the event and more.
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That's Hot: Paris Hilton Strikes Back at the "White-Haired Dude"

in News on August 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

In a tempest-in-a-teapot political scandalette, Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain used images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in a television ad attacking his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, as a celebrity. It was tasteless and also offensive to Hilton and Spears, which seems an almost impossible task–way to go! Now, wasting no time in taking advantage of the brouhaha and drawing attention just where it should be–to herself, of course–Hilton did this clever video spoof for the Funny or Die comedy Web site.