Saturday, September 26, 2009
Online
How eBay Surrendered Its ‘Religion’
10:59AM Ryan Tate | Here’s an extraordinary video of eBay CEO John Donahoe bragging about how the company has sidelined what was once a core competency: Online auctions. Why solve a hard business problem when you can run away from it? More »
Small Screen
SYTYCD Tour Is Like Watching TV With 20,000 Strangers
8:10AM Brian Moylan | Last night I ventured all the way out to Newark, New Jersey to catch the live version of So You Think You Can Dance. It is simultaneously worse than you would expect and more awesome than you could hope for. More »
Print
Ebony Searches For A Saviour
7:50AM John Cook | Newsweek’s Johnnie L. Roberts reports that Ebony, which was founded with a $US500 loan in 1942, is in “big, big trouble” and shopping itself to Time Warner and Viacom. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Spain’s Goth First Daughters Embarrass, Embarrassed By Dad
6:06AM Pareene | Here’s Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The State Department uploaded it to Flickr. (What an unlikely sentence!) Whoops — no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before! More »
People
5:37AM Brian Moylan | [All eyes are on human Muppet Donatella Versace as she greets the crowd at her fashion show in Milan last night. Image via Getty]
Goldilocks And The Three Stares
5:37AM Brian Moylan | [All eyes are on human Muppet Donatella Versace as she greets the crowd at her fashion show in Milan last night. Image via Getty]
Online
Twitter’s Nemesis, Jason Fried, Is Self Appointed
5:26AM Ryan Tate | The revenues of Jason Fried’s scrappy Chicago startup are estimated at maybe $US10 million annually. Twitter, meanwhile, is about to deposit 10 times that in its already-stuffed bank account. Which helps explain why Fried’s sniping has reached mocking extremes. More »
Small Screen
Tinsley Mortimer Finally Gets In Touch With Reality TV
3:02AM Brian Moylan | Can you believe that it’s taken Tinsley Mortimer this long to get a reality TV show? Well, the rumours are true, and she’s headed to the home of all things glorious and sophisticated: The CW. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
Barack Obama’s Eerie, Frozen Grimace Will Haunt Your Dreams
2:36AM John Cook | This video from Eric Spiegelman compresses 130 sequentially taken photographs of Barack Obama with visiting foreign dignitaries Wednesday during the UN meeting into 20 seconds. His smile is immobile and identical in each one. It is creepy. More »
Small Screen
This Video Of Matt Damon ‘Flipping Out’ On Adrian Grenier Is Fake
2:11AM John Cook | Oh my, look at Matt Damon go nuts on Adrian Grenier during the filming of a PSA for Damon’s charity, OneXOne.org. Hey, what’s Jeremy Piven doing there? Anyway, this behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood egos is sure to get attention online. More »
Big Screen
