Like Twitter Verified accounts, celebrities are being lured to Google+ with a “celebrity acquisition plan”, which will help with promotion and cracking down on impersonations. One way Google may check celebrities’ identities? Asking them to fax their driver licences. Ouch. [CNN]
Does the world really need another URL shortener? One backed by Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Pepsi, at that? One that’s run by a CEO described almost entirely by the fact that he lives on New York’s hipster-laden LES (Lower-East Side)?
Eight victims of the News of the World’s “phone hacking” scandal have received an unprecedented apology from that publication this week. The apology marks a 180-degree reversal for NotW, which had maintained for several years that the job was the work of one reporter.
An enterprising hacking ring has reportedly stolen nude pics and videos from more than 50 female celebrities, including Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, and the FBI is on the case.
If Kim Kardashian is so hard to keep up with, why does she keep popping up in my news feed? And why on Earth does she want to shove a credit card into the hands of my (hypothetical) babies?
From helping actors learn lines, to appearing 2438 times on TV in September alone, to showing Star Trek 2‘s lead actress as a vulcan, the New York Times profiled the iPad’s influence on Hollywood behind and in front of the camera. [NYT]
