So many questions. What’s enlarged to show texture: the cereal or T.O.’s bicep? Is he positioned on the left side of the box because he refused to go over the middle? Why is he holding up the “s”? Is the expiration date “whenever Trent Edwards(notes) throws more passes to Lee Evans(notes)“?
TO’s is also available online from PLB’s Web site. It costs $5 for two boxes, which ironically is also the ratio of drops to catches that Owens will have in a Bills uniform.
The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late 2008 they launched WSJ Community, a social network bolted onto the main WSJ site. That community is a ghost town - raise your hand if you’ve even heard of it, let alone visited it. At some point, they’ll likely shut it down as quietly as possible.
But they are still serious about gunning for the LinkedIn crowd and all those monetization opportunities (jobs, ads and a heck of a marketing pool for WSJ subscriptions). They’ve been working on a new social network, to be called WSJ Connect, we’ve confirmed. And instead of building it internally, like they did with WSJ Community, they’ve enlisted the help of another arm of parent company News Corp. - Slingshot Labs. And yes, they call it “LinkedIn Killer” internally.
Slingshot Labs is the R&D arm of News Corp. and works on digital products. Their first product was Daily Fill, which launched earlier this year. They also built the MySpace Events product that we covered in March. They operate fairly independently, have their own funding and 40-50 staff, according to one person familiar with their operations.
WSJ Connect is still in the planning/conceptual stages, says one source, but there is “strong interest” to move the project forward. Importantly, it would leverage the WSJ brand but would be a separate property and unencumbered by the need for a paid subscription to the newspaper.
Conceptual screenshots of the product are apparently floating around Slingshot, the WSJ and MySpace. We’re trying to track them down.
Absolutely no one responded to our requests for comment. Luckily, lots of ex-MySpace employees are happy to talk.
This is straight out of Gizmodo. But the idea for this app is precisely the idea I had with Shrimpy a several months ago. Granted, we were talking about this in the context of a website not an app and it was during the days when the app store would never have allowed XXX material to be published, but still I like the validation of a good idea. It shows that I’m on the right track.
Read on:
Here you have another proof that demonstrates why Apple’s iTunes App store approval process is screwed: theXchange, a new iPhone application to put people in contact to have sex, photos included. As you can imagine, the content gets extremely strong.
Hottest Girls was the first one to appear, disappearing within hours of its launch. Then BeautyMeter, which was pulled shortly after introduced
Why is Apple approving these apps in the first place, knowing they are going to pull them down later?
And since these applications get their content via the internet, should Apple take Safari or Mail out of the iPhone too? Or Beehive, which can be used to send pictures on the fly to other users? And Facebook too? My camera?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. This is stupid and has to stop. Either you apply the same filter to everything, or you open the application market for real. Just make sure things work, and are not illegal on its own, not because of the potential content they may fetch from the internet.
Hockey started as a duo, signed to Epic, and fought with the record label over their sound, they would leave the label, relocate to Portland, add more members and create their own sound. Which according to Wiki is a cross between The Strokes and LCD Soundsystem.
They play Lollapalooza Friday at 11:30 AM on the Playstation stage. Come out and see them regardless of time to avoid the lines.
Sacha Baron Cohen has stepped up his security after being threatened by a terrorist organization that is angered at its portrayal in the film “Bruno.”
The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, a coalition of Palestinian militias in the West Bank, said it was “very upset” that it was featured in the movie, starring Baron Cohen’s homosexual fashionista alter ego.
Baron Cohen’s Austrian character ridicules the terrorist group when he attempts to get himself kidnapped during a meeting with Ayman Abu Aita, who is identified in the film as the leader of the Martyrs’ Brigades.
The British comic is taking the threat seriously and has improved secu rity arrangements for himself and his family in preparation for violent reprisals.
The Martyrs’ Bri gades has issued a statement to a Jerusalem-based journalist including a veiled threat against Baron Cohen, 37.
“We reserve the right to respond in the way we find suitable against this man,” it said. “The movie was part of a conspiracy against the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.”
The group condemned the use of the interview.
“According to what we checked, there was no meeting about the real context of the film,” the statement said. “This was a dirty use of our brother, Ayman, and we don’t accept that the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades is part of the film.”
The group is responsible for dozens of suicide bombings and shootings, and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States.
Baron Cohen’s Austrian character is shown telling Abu Aita: “I want to be famous. I want the best guys in the business to kidnap me. Al Qaeda is so 2001.” Before Abu Aita can respond, Bruno suggests that he remove his moustache, explaining: “Because your King Osama looks like a kind of dirty wizard or homeless Santa.”
Abu Aita claims that he was tricked into appearing in the film and has insisted that he is no longer involved in the Martyrs’ Brigades. He has threatened to sue Baron Cohen.
“This man, I think he is not a man,” Abu Aita said. “He is not saying the truth about me. He lied.”
Abu Aita’s lawyer, Hatem Abu Ahmad, has said that he is preparing a legal action against Baron Cohen and Universal Studios alleging that the terrorist reference could get his client in trouble with the Israelis and that the gay association could get him killed by Palestinians.
Abu Ahmad said: “This joke is very dangerous. We are not in the United States, we are not in Europe, we are in the Middle East, and the world operates differently here.”
14 days until Lollapalooza and we’ve already recommended The Gaslight Anthem as a must see. My next band to see is the Arctic Monkeys. I’ve been a big fan of the bhoys from Sheffield for some time now and am looking forward to seeing them in concert for a third time. The band follow such brit-pop greats as Oasis and blur but with even more pop and catchiness than any other band I can remember in recent memory. Lead singer/songwriter Alex Turner writes original songs with the wit and intelligence of a classic english comedian, with great lines such as “all the weekend rock stars are in the toilet practicing their lines.” The band continues to grow musically with each album and the sounds of the new LP Humbug have me really excited to hear what they’ve come up with now on this much louder and darker Monkeys album. Below are some of my favorite Arctic Monkey songs including Fluorescent Adolescent; one of the most original videos of all-time starring Stephen Graham (of Public Enemies & Snatch fame). Some live performances from Glastonbury in 2007, a festival setting. Also included is the new single Crying Lightening.
Arctic Monkeys play Saturday at 4:30 on the Budweiser stage.
Fluorescent Adolescent
A Certain Romance (performed live at Glastonbury in 2007)
I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor (performed live at Glastonbury in 2007)
Fake Tales of San Francisco (performed live at Glastonbury in 2007)
The Wall Street Journal has long envied the success of professional social network LinkedIn and its 15 million or so monthly visitors (WSJ.com has just a third of that). In late 2008 they launched WSJ Community, a social network bolted onto the main WSJ site. That community is a ghost town - raise your hand if you’ve even heard of it, let alone visited it. At some point, they’ll likely shut it down as quietly as possible.
14 days until Lollapalooza and we’ve already recommended