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Visiting Dignitaries

By Jessica Roy 5/17 10:43am

Visiting Dignitaries

Mr. Mason

For His Next Act, Ousted Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Will Release an Album of ‘Motivational Business Music’

Typically, when CEOs are ousted from the businesses they founded, they go “spend more time” with their families, take up a hobby like yachting or move immediately on to the next company they can try not to drive into the ground. Not so for former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason, who was fired earlier this year. Though he’s going to join Y Combinator as an advisor, Mr. Mason has another trick up his sleeve: dropping an album, of course. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 5/13 2:28pm

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Is that a Skinnygirl?

This ‘Gatsby Green Light’ Website Can’t Make the Movie Any Worse

There were plenty of times during the seemingly never ending The Great Gatsby movie that we wanted to reach for our phone because, ugh, it was so boring. Now, there’s a terrible second-screen experience to enjoy the expensive Heineken commercial called the “Gatsby Green Light.”

It’s a single-serve website that flashes a green light…just like the green light at end of Daisy’s East Egg dock! Presumably, you’re supposed to hold it up during the film to piss off everyone. For context, Gatsby reaches longingly at it because he’s searching for a better script. Ha, ha, no, just kidding. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 5/13 10:11am

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Brand manager, Vin Diesel. (Photo: Facebook)

Talking Muscle Milk Shake Vin Diesel Thinks Facebook Owes Him ‘Billions of Dollars’

Muscley toddler Vin Diesel is a big deal on Facebook. He has 41 million likes, where the incessant over-sharer documents much of his weird life. Scrolling through his timeline, there’s a picture of him posing shirtless with a leopard that has nearly 1 million likes, a picture of him smiling with some WordArt-created slogan reading “Sing and the world sings with you…” that somehow garnered 10,000 likes, and an open thread about his acting career that has collected 50,000 comments. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 4/30 4:00pm

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Ostrich. (Photo: Getty Images/Michael Buckner)

Netflix Paid for an Ostrich to Walk the Red Carpet at the Arrested Development Premiere

Last night’s premiere for the new season of Arrested Development, helmed by Netflix, brought out your usual gambit of stars. A scruffy Jason Bateman appeared, Portia de Rossi brought along her real-life YouTube video/wife Ellen Degeneres, and Jessica Walter still looks flawless since we last saw her.

But there was also an ostrich. It wasn’t a jokey reference from seasons past, and it wasn’t David Cross doing David Crossy things, like, say,dressing up as an ostrich. Nope, the flightless bird was sharing red carpet space alongside the stars of the Netflix-produced show, which premieres May 26. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 4/30 2:20pm

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Stop it. (Photo: Instagram)

Super-Rich Ryan Seacrest and the Super-Rich Founder of Instagram Are Totally BFFs

Talking Orbit gum stick Ryan Seacrest announced today that he’s producing a new program for Aol, but sadly (luckily?) it doesn’t include any of the Kardashians. Rather, it’s a 10-episode series with appearances from relationship coach Gwyneth Paltrow. The Web-only deal is his production company’s first foray into creating digital programming.

Variety called the deal an “organic evolution” for Mr. Seacrest since his Internet prowess has racked him up millions of followers on Twitter and Instagram. Combined with his popularity, a presumably high Klout score and his connections with Valley big-wigs (like Twitter CEO Dick Costolo), he’s become their go-to guy for communicating with middle America. Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 4/30 10:46am

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Framing this. (Photo: Tumblr)

Sophia Bush Is Dating a Really Hot Google Brogrammer

One Tree Hill starlet Sophia Bush is scroogling hot Google employee Dan Fredinburg, reports important magazine US Weekly. The pair have been dating for a few months, and if we are to believe a person with the job title “Bush confidant,” things are getting serious! The source whispered to the glossy that the romance works because they feel feelings and “they’re both so passionate about the world.”

And Mr. Fredinburg knows a thing or two about the world, I guess. As a six-year Google employee, he’s taken pictures of mountains for Google Maps, worked on the site’s privacy strategy and YouTube. The “Bush confidant” says Ms. Bush thinks he’s “super intelligent” because he’s super good at maps and confirmed that “she really likes him.” Feelings! Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 4/26 5:30pm

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A card from the Reincarnated Track Notes app.

Snoop Lion Now Has an App, But It’s Instagram He Really Loves

“I’m still Snoop Dogg. Snoop Lion is an extension of Snoop Dogg. He’s the fine-tuned Snoop Dogg, the perfection of Snoop Dogg in so many words.”

The fine-tuned version of Snoop Dogg showed up an hour late to last night’s panel at the Soho Apple Store. Given that he’s Snoop, though, that’s basically the same as being on time. When he finally strolled onstage, he was wearing a leather jacket and leather gloves, despite the warm spring weather. Also, sunglasses. At 9 p.m., inside the Apple Store.

He wore them the whole time.  Read More

By Jordan Valinsky 4/23 3:52pm

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These would get dirty quickly. (Photo: Instagram)

MySpace Tom Now Just Begging for Likes on Instagram

MySpace cofounder-turned-Internet jagoff Tom Anderson really wants your approval. On his Twitter account earlier today, Mr. Anderson broke the cardinal rule of social media: he asked for likes.

The man affectionately known as “MySpace Tom” asked his followers to double tap on an Instagram of a pair of Toms shoes (GET IT?) emblazoned with his infamous MySpace selfie in order to land it on the popular page. Read More