AOL’s HuffPost Enters Crowded Online Arena With HuffPost Celebrity Site

The Huffington Post Media Group, AOL’s fast-moving content unit, is launching a celebrity site called HuffPost Celebrity today, as well as another called HuffPost Culture. HuffPost Celebrity, which ate AOL’s former celeb-focused site Popeater, is in a very crowded arena online, with competitors such as Yahoo’s omg!, Time Warner’s People magazine Web site, as well as AOL-owned TMZ.com.
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God Save the Queen: The Arianna Invasion of Britain Begins!

The U.K. version of the Huffington Post, which has been expected, went live today. It is the site’s first major international expansion beyond North America (Canada was first). And, while the content is aimed at the audience there, it will still have the usual HuffPo mix of saucy news, videos and blogs. Except with a charming British accent.
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Kara Visits "The Future of the Internet" Book Party!

This past Saturday night, BoomTown attended the tony San Francisco book party for Jonathan Zittrain’s new book, “The Future of the Internet–And How to Stop It.” It was hosted by megablogger Arianna Huffington and Melanie Ellison, an old friend of Zittrain’s from high school, as it turned out. And BoomTown took our Flip video camera, of course!
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Blogs and Kisses!

Here is a clip from my favorite new television show, “Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union,” which recently debuted on Showtime. The British comedian does spot-on impressions of average people and the errant celebrity too, including a pitch-perfect one (right down to yelling for her sister Agape) of blogger Arianna Huffington with the signature line: [...]