Somewhere in Hollywood, Ashton Kutcher is trying on a black mock turtleneck. Variety has reported that the actor, producer, and angel investor will now play the late Steve Jobs in a film about the Apple CEO.
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A few weeks ago, Ashton Kutcher became involved in a Twitter war with the Village Voice.
Guest blogger Gary Lee, CEO of mBlast, uses this kerfuffle as the basis of an exploration of the types of influencers and how marketers should consider each.
Ashton Kutcher and The Village Voice are currently engaged in a Twitter battle after The Voice gave Kutcher’s ‘Real Men Don’t Buy Girls’ campaign a less than satisfactory review.
Celebrities including Jessica Biel, Edward Norton, Justin Timberlake, and Jason Mraz are participating in Real Men Don’t Buy Girls, a video campaign on YouTube led by the DNA Foundation, which, in turn, is led by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore.
No, mom, if everyone else was jumping off a bridge, we wouldn’t do it, too, because it might lead to serious injury or death. But no one will be hurt by revealing the top 10 WebNewser posts of 2010, by page views, so, without further ado:
10: CNBC.com Offers Marijuana & Money, April 20: a CNBC.com special report examining the marijuana industry in the United States from a business standpoint.
9: Ashton Kutcher’s ‘Twitter Guys’ Profile Actually About Ashton Kutcher, April 30, 2009: This oldie but goodie showed staying power, reporting that Twitter legend Ashton Kutcher profiled The Twitter Guys — Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and himself — for The 2009 Time 100.
8: Full Episodes of Conan O’Brien’s TBS Show to Stream Online, Nov. 4: Conan O’Brien‘s TeamCoco.com announced that full episodes of TBS’ Conan would be available online the day after they air on the cable channel.
7: Mythbusters‘ Kari Byron Talks New Media on the Morning Media Menu, Oct. 27: Kari Byron, one of the co-hosts of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, was the guest on Morning Media Menu, discussing her new show for The Science Channel, Head Rush.
6: ESPN Taking Time Warner Cable Carriage Negotiations Online, July 20: Disney and ESPN launched a Web site and pages on social-networking sites to call attention to the carriage dispute between the sports network and the cable operator.
CBS is tapping Twitter for another comedy series, as Katie Kindelan of sister blog Social Times reports that the network is developing a sitcom based on the Twitter feed of Kelly Oxford, a stay-at-home mother of three in Canada, called Mother of All Something, to be produced by actress Jessica Alba, who discovered Oxford’s Tweets, and by former Will & Grace writer Jhoni Marchinko, with Oxford herself doing the writing.
The network is also in production on two other Twitter-related series, both from noted Tweeter Ashton Kutcher: Dear Girls Above Me and Shh … Don’t Tell Steve, according to Social Times.
And of course, $#*! My Dad Says already airs on CBS, based on Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern, who was the subject of a mediabistro.com So What Do You Do Q&A in September.
Perhaps encouraged by the successful debut of sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, based on Twitter feed Shit My Dad Says, CBS is developing another Twitter-themed sitcom, this one based on Shh … Don’t Tell Steve and produced by high-profile Tweeter Ashton Kutcher, The Hollywood Reporter‘s The Live Feed reports.
Shh … Don’t Tell Steve, which has more than 13,000 followers, follows the action of its creator’s jobless, drunken roommate, without the roommate knowing. The Live Feed reports that CBS TV Studios and Katalyst will produce the project; Andrew Waller and Mike Gagerman are the writer-executive producers; and Kutcher and his producing partner, Evan Goldberg, are executive producers.
The Shit My Dad Says Twitter feed was created by Justin Halpern, who was the subject of a mediabistro.com So What Do You Do Q&A earlier this month.
Flipboard, the white hot social magazine iPad app startup, has snapped up another company in a bid to make sense out of the streams of links and social data coming from networks like Twitter.
The company announced that it had acquired The Ellerdale Project, a two-year-old company that indexes almost 70 million Facebook, Twitter, and other social status messages a day.
Flipboard, a “revolutionary” social magazine designed for the iPad (Ashton Kutcher’s word, not mine) pulls in articles, photos, and other data from a user’s friends, and spits them out as a cleanly formatted virtual magazine. The company intends to put the Ellerdale technology at the center of its app, letting it determine the most relevant content for each user.
“This technology will add deep relevancy for our readers, enabling us to present social content in a way that is not only more beautiful, but also more meaningful. Itʼs a great combination,” said Flipboard CEO and co-founder Mike McCue in a statement.
Ellerdale co-founder Arthur van Hoff, who helped develop Java at Sun Microsystems, will join Flipboard as chief technology officer.
The company was founded by McCue, who sold voice recognition company Tellme to Microsoft for $700 million in 2007, and Evan Doll, a former Apple iPhone engineer.
Flipboard received $10.5M in its first round of funding. High profile investors included Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and Ashton Kutcher.
The Flipboard app, which was released this week, has been riding a wave of positive press. A massive influx of users at launch caused login delays, and prompted the company to implement an invitation system to keep their system from being overwhelmed overwhelmed.
Swedish students at the Berghs School of Communication have introduced a new social live art project through Twitter. They are calling it ‘Don’t Tell Ashton’ and are using the project to gauge and illustrate the influence of different users on Twitter. ‘Don’t Tell Ashton’ is shaping up to be incredibly viral and it will be interesting to see how many Twitter power users get involved.
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