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EBay Lets Britney’s Hair Down

The phrase "only in America" has never been more apropos. And the phrase "Britney shaved" has never had such an ironic connotation. And eBay has never been quicker to remove a listing (can't really back up that last part).

LeBron James Suits Up For MSN

Charles Barkley proclaimed that he wasn’t a role model, nor did he want to be one. LeBron James, conversely, is choosing to embrace the influential position he holds as a direct result of his NBA superstardom. The three-time all star for the Cleveland Cavaliers announced on Monday that he would be participating in a venture from MSN that will portray the basketball phenom’s journey from…

Larry Page, Google Look Into AI

Larry Page spoke before the Annual American Association for the Advancement of Science conference on Friday, and he made some fairly standard remarks about working harder to solve humanity’s problems. One mildly interesting thing popped up, though: Page mentioned that Google is developing artificial intelligence.

What to Do When Your .com is Taken

Recently I setup a survey at SurveyMonkey trying to gauge people's feelings and impressions on the top-level domains such as .com, .net., .biz and so on. I purposefully left off .gov and .edu top-level domains because you're not supposed to be able to get them as a small business. I thought I'd share this completely unscientific survey with you: Question 1: Imagine you visit a…

Bud.tv King Of Controversy

Earlier this year I wrote an article about Anheuser-Busch launching their online entertainment network called Bud.tv. In the article I mentioned that the company was concerned with installing an effective age verification system.