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• Yahoo Mobile Head David Ko Takes Over Audience Job Too (But Mobile Product Development Moves Under Balogh)

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  David Ko, head of Yahoos mobile division, has also added the Internet giants vast media properties in the U.S. to his portfolio, according to several sources. With purview over programming and more for the main Yahoo media properties, such as News and Finance, he will now control a vast swath of its consumer-facing ...
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• Did Michael Lohan Just Kill Himself? [Uh Oh]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  After tweeting his good-byes and threatening to leap to his death off the Brooklyn Bridge , Michael Lohans Twitter account abruptly went dead early Monday morning. What on earth just happened? Adrian and I briefly contemplated dropping everything and rushing to the bridge for the first-ever Gawker night editor ...
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• The Top 10 Bing Searches of 2009 (Hint: Twitterâ??s #2)

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  It isn’t even December yet, but Microsoft’s Bing search engine is already announcing its top ten most searched topics of 2009, as well as the two celebrities that were binged more than actress Megan Fox. The new Microsoft “decision engine” has only been in service since June, but Bing has apparently analyzed ...
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• BrightRoll says video ad profits are soaring

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Video ad network BrightRoll is seeing rapid revenue growth, according to third quarter financial numbers it just released. â??Online video advertising is growing fast enough to make up for most of the fallout in display, email and other online businesses,” said chief executive Tod Sacerdoti. Additionally, ...
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• SupportSpace takes $10M for remote tech support

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  SupportSpace, provider of technical support on-demand, has raised $10 million in a new round of funding. Based in South San Francisco, the company is backed by Emergence Capital Partners, BRM Group and Gemini Israel. It has now raised $24.25 million to date. Go to Full Article
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• Twitter Declared Most Popular English Word of 2009

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  While Twitter may have taken second place in Bing’s 10 most searched topics of 2009 , we’ve now learned that it has become top dog in something far bigger: the entire English language. The Global Language Monitor , which tracks language trends, has once again compiled and released its yearly list of the most ...
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• A Guided Tour of Roman Polanskis Luxury Alpine Prison to the Stars [House Arrest]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Poor, beleaguered Roman Polanski is being held in the most inhumane of conditions, a luxury ski chalet with a breathtaking view in a posh Swiss resort town beneath an endless sky bound only by rainbows. The admitted child rapist is scheduled to arrive today at his mountain home in Gstaad, one of the most expensive ...
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• Entrepreneuringâ?¦Side Effects

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Funny how we are inundated with drug commericals and the 60 seconds of side effects. Like pharmaceutical drugs, entrepreneuring is not just about the high of starting and running your own business.There should be some disclaimers people should really have to hear when they are thinking of starting a business…I may ...
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• Salahis Demand Cash to Grease Their White House-Crashing Lips [Trade Roundup]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  If you are one of the many who thought you could not despise the Salahis any more than you already do, think again: The White House crashers are demanding to be paid for their first television interview. Originally scheduled to speak to Larry King on Monday, the Salahis have opted instead to emphasize the "whore" ...
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• Viral Video: A "Twilight" Spoof With an Actual "Twilight" Star

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  There has been plenty of online hay made over the latest of the "Twilight" movies, "New Moon," which has turned out to be a blockbuster for Hollywood over the last two weekends, pulling in $474 million worldwide. Whats unusual about this spoof of the hit series, from "Attack of the Show," is that it stars Peter ...
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• Email Of The Week: Journalism School Language Police

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Its that time again - for the ridiculous email of the week award. And while Video Professor really wins this weeks award, were going to add one more to the list. Gabrielle, a student at Drake Universitys School of Journalism and Mass Communication, writes to tell us that, according to the Associated Press Stylebook, ...
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• Saddam Returns! With Mysterious Satellite TV Channel that Alternately Terrorizes and Bores [Back From The Dead]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Timed to the three-year anniversary of his execution, a Saddam Hussein -themed TV channel appeared on Iraqi airwaves this week and is basically a Baathist screensaver set to audio of late dictators most famous speeches. The Associated Press reports that the channel—alternately called "al-Arabi" ("the Arab") and ...
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• AOL Reveals Its Master Plan: Robot Editors

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Tonight, AOL revealed its master plan for cheap content creation: automated assignment editors. AOL told the Wall Street Journal it is developing an algorithm that will assign freelance writers stories based on user Web searches and the sites AOL ISP subscribers visit. This week, for example, AOLs algorithm would ...
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• Heroic Stripper is Like the Cesar Chavez of Stripping [Strippers Of The World Unite]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  One woman is on a crusade to reform Portland, Oregons strip club industry by suing evil club owners who put making a profit before paying women fairly to take off their clothes and wiggle around on a pole. Solidarity forever! Meet Zipporah Foster, profiled by Willamette Week last week. Shes a 28 year-old single ...
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• Nine Years After Mike Huckabee Freed Him, Man is Wanted in Cop Killings [Sad]

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Former Arkansas governor/GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee might have made a huge mistake when he commuted Maurice Clemmons 60-year prison sentence nine years ago: Now, Clemmons is wanted for questioning in the horrific shooting of four Washington State police officers. This morning, a man walked into a ...
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• Black Friday e-commerce spending rose 11 percent, comScore says

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Black Friday online spending rose 11 percent in the U.S. to $595 million, according to market research firm comScore. This e-commerce spending figure trumps the $534 million spent on Black Friday a year ago. On Thanksgiving day, online spending was $310 million, up 10 percent from $288 million a year ago. And in the ...
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• Twitter Doesnâ??t Track The Zeitgeist. Only 2 Percent Of Tweets Overlap With Search Trends.

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Whenever you want to take a reading of the current zeitgeist , popular search terms can tell you a lot about whats on peoples minds. Right now, for instance, the hottest search terms on Google Trends include "lakewood police shooting," "tiger woods mistress," "surviving Christmas," and "cyber monday 2009 deals." If ...
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• Underground data center to help heat Helsinki

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath one of the citys popular tourist sites will be captured and channeled into a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes. Go to Full Article
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• Bingâ??s 2009 Top Search Terms: Michael Jackson Beats Out Twitter

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  Its that time of year again when we see each search engine roll out their top search queries for the year. Scrubbed for pornography and other NSFW stuff, of course. And also manipulated in other ways, like taking out old popular terms, to make sure the list is interesting, if not actually representative of anything, ...
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• American Capital Shuts Its Los Angeles Office

  
  Kid Mercury's Blog — Authority: 178
  American Capital (Nasdaq: ACAS) has closed its Los Angeles office, peHUB has learned. The move comes almost exactly one year after the business development company shuttered its Palo Alto outpost, and leaves it without a West Coast presence. In an email sent out this evening, a Los Angeles staffer wrote: I wanted to ...
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