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  • Kim Kardashian Flour-Bombed During Red Carpet Event

    Say what you want about Kim Kardashian, but she’s learned to shake off vicious attacks on her character…even when they involve a bag of flour.

    E! News reported that at a swanky launch party at a West Hollywood hotel last night for Kardashian’s new fragrance–True Reflection–a young woman ran up to the socialite while she was doing interviews on the red carpet and dumped an entire bag of flour on her before running away. She was eventually caught by Kardashian’s security people but no reports have been made yet as to why she did it. Rumor has it that the woman was heard saying something about the star wearing fur.

    Kim was a good sport about the incident and laughed it off, refusing to press charges–although a battery report was still filed. The woman was later released from custody.

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    Classy to flour bomb my sister at her charity event helping women. I wonder if they would have dared thrown the … http://t.co/ZZP4jMDS(image) 8 hours ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    A similar incident occurred at this year’s Oscars, when character actor Sasha Baron Cohen dumped ashes–supposedly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il–on Ryan Seacrest during an interview. Seacrest didn’t handle the incident quite as gracefully as Kardashian.

  • Apple About To Launch New Pages, iBooks Software?

    Apple About To Launch New Pages, iBooks Software?

    All anyone knows for certain about the Apple event that starts in just a few minutes is that it is related to education. The rumor mill is generally agreed, though, that the announcement will involve textbooks and iBooks in some way. There have even been rumors of a “GarageBand for e-books,” a tool that would streamline the creation of e-book files. Now, just before the event, there are a few new details emerging. Jason O’Grady of ZDNet posted the following Tweet late last night:

    A little birdie told me that Roger Rosner will announce Pages ’12, iBooks 2 (with Lion support) and textbook rentals in NYC today. 9 hours ago via Itsy! · powered by @socialditto

    Pages has been overdue for an update for awhile now, so a new version of Pages (and iWork in general) is not at all unlikely. Likewise, users have been clamoring for iBooks on OS X since iBooks was announced with the first iPad in 2010.

    Whatever Apple has in store is bound to be interesting, though. The announcement is scheduled for 10 AM Eastern time. Check back soon for more details.

  • Live Twitter Reactions From iPhone 4S Event

    It’s finally here, the iPhone event so many have been anticipating. Will we see the iPhone 5, or will we be provided only the iPhone 4S? Perhaps the big shocker will be announced, and discover Sprint paid $20 billion for exclusivity.

    Here are interesting, insightful, and funny tweets from users keeping up with the event.

    So now you can actually talk to your iPhone. Super cool, especially if it works as seamlessly as the live demo 2 minutes ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    Hey, the new iPhone will finally give me someone to talk to. It will be like my little friend. 1 minute ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    “Siri” is the name of the iPhone virtual assistant thing? Really? That sounds like a five-year-old girl’s imaginary friend’s name. 48 seconds ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    disappointed with the new iphone. I’ll buy it, but disappointed 1 minute ago via web · powered by @socialditto

    Yowsa! “Next, a world phone. You know that the iPhone comes in two flavors, GSM or CDMA. Now the iPhone 4S has both GSM and CDMA.” 2 minutes ago via CoTweet · powered by @socialditto

    8 hours 3G talk time, 6 hours web browsing, 9 hours wifi web browsing, 40 hours of music
    #iphone 1 minute ago via web · powered by @socialditto

  • MySpace Introduces Ticketing & Event Service

    How does MySpace plan to stop the outward flow of traffic to Facebook and Twitter. Apparently,  by connecting with them and an ongoing series of launches rather than a single splashy makeover. And today’s announcement might have actually given artists and music marketers a reason to keep their MySpace profiles more up to date.image from www.wxlvradio.comLate on Wednesday, the social networker unveiled MySpace Events, a calendar and ticketing platform that allows artists and fans to create and share events. Each event appears inside the user’s MySpace calendar, including any from Facebook thanks to a growing implementation of Facebook Connect; and  they can be shared on their MySpace Stream, Facebook pages, on Twitter, and via tiny url.

    Ticketing & Targeted Event Ads

    The tools to create concert listings are fairly robust and allow linkage to third party ticketing, which also provides MySpace with another revenue stream. Advertisers who want to promote an event can now also purchase a new special ad format that displays sponsored events directly inside the social calendar. When a user RSVPs "yes", they then also promote the sponsored event to their friends.

    Myspace says in the coming months…

    it will add additional features including mobile access, concert notifications and film releases.

    “Ultimately our goal is to create a destination that allows users to manage their entire social calendar online through MySpace,” said Marcus Womack, Director of Events and Ticketing for MySpace. “Also, we’re providing artists with advanced tools to help connect with fans and promote their shows while conversely enabling fans to quickly and easily discover, share and purchase tickets to those shows.”

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