Yahoo Unleashes $100M Marketing Campaign

Yahoo outlined its new global branding campaign today, dubbed “It’s You!”, which is focused on the personalization of its homepage and products. The campaign, which has a budget of more than $100 million, includes tag lines that will be featured on the homepage such as “It’s time to get personal” and “The new Yahoo lets you do it your way every day.” The company also released an updated version of its Yahoo search product. The update, shown to the media last month, includes a left-hand column that lets users filter their results by using Search Monkey data. The layout resembles Microsoft’s Bing, which is interesting since the two companies inked a search deal in July.

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Rick Ross Robbed

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The Yacht of all Yachts

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built in to his latest oversized yacht. The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of which has almost doubled since original plans were drawn to almost $1.2 billion, set sail this week with a slew of show-off features, from two helipads, two swimming pools and six-foot movie screens in all guest cabins, to a mini-submarine and missile-proof windows to combat piracy.It might not seem like somebody with such ostentatious tastes would crave privacy, but along with these expensive toys, Ambramovich has installed an anti-paparazzi “shield”.

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Teenagers Find & Beat To Death An Alien Creature Like Thing In Panama!

YouTube – Teenagers Find & Beat To Death An Alien Creature Like Thing In Panama!.

WTF!? Could be an internet Hoax or something weird!

BUSTED: Burglar Arrested After Checking Facebook During Robbery

So apparently it actually works both ways: careless Facebook (Facebook) use can both get you robbed and get you arrested for burglary.

According to The Journal, a 19-year-old Pennsylvania man was arraigned earlier this week on a charge of felony daytime robbery. How did police catch him? Simple: the burglar left a trail, by way of checking his Facebook account before leaving the house with two diamond rings and forgetting to log out.

Jonathan Parker remains in custody on $10,000 bail, facing a maximum 10 year prison sentence if convicted. A friend of the defendant said Parker had asked him for help breaking into the victim’s house the previous night, so things are not looking too good for the perp.

What do you think: is this a case of Facebook addiction, or just a very dim burglar? If robbery weren’t such a serious matter we might consider this story pretty much hilarious. As Homer Simpson would say, “doh!”

via BUSTED: Burglar Arrested After Checking Facebook During Robbery.

DIGITAL WALLPAPER

Hirzberger Events – Digital Wallpaper from Gregor Hofbauer on Vimeo.

Myspace Introduces ‘Sync to Twitter’ Status Updates

Remember MySpace? Of course you do, still the second largest social network in the world and yet still up there with the most hideous looking websites ever to grace the internet with its existence – despite being owned by a small company called Fox Interactive Media. Sorry, I get frustrated sometimes.

Anyhow, news just in via Techcrunch that the site has enabled two way status updates syncing to Twitter. Using Twitter OAuth, status updates from MySpace can be posted to Twitter with a link back to MySpace. Members can choose either one-way (read-only) or two-way syncing.

AOL, Facebook and now MySpace all incorporate Twitter update syncing now. It appears as though the status update has found its home.

via The Next Web.

Kanye West Leads BET Hip-Hop Award Nominees With 9 Nods — Full Nominee List Announced

Kanye West may not be liked much by a lot of people, due his highly-publicized interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the VMAs, but he’s still get that awards show love.

It was recently revealed that he earned the most nominations for the upcoming 2009 BET Hip-Hop Awards, which will be taped in Atlanta on October 10 and air on October 27.

via BallerStatus.com » Kanye West Leads BET Hip-Hop Award Nominees With 9 Nods — Full Nominee List Announced.

Fun ways to transform your face online

If you have a picture of yourself, why not put it to good use? With the help of some online resources, you can do all kinds of neat things to it. You can even put it on greeting cards, avatars for your Twitter profile, and more.

If you’re planning to put your picture to use, do it with these sites.

via Fun ways to transform your face online | Webware – CNET.

Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League players go broke

Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball players have a penchant for losing most or all of their money. It doesn’t matter how much they make. And the ways they blow it are strikingly similar

via Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League – 03.23.09 – SI Vault.