Characters will meet character limits at this year’s O Music Awards, MTV’s Webby Award-winning show that celebrates all things “offbeat, outrageous, and online.” Because there’s no soap box quite like social media, the television network has announced a brand new category, “Most Intense Social Spat,” to reward the awful things celebrities write to their fans, their moms, and each other.
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A total of six Lady Gaga songs were placed on the list, all from her latest album. The 12-year-old ballad “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys is on the list as well. But, China is not just targeting pop culture songs. Dozens of Hong Kong and Taiwanese pop songs and a few Western hits are on the list, too.
Ever get so frustrated by topics trending on Twitter that you just wanted to blast away? Developer Jared Kroff feels your pain. Hence, the creation of Tweet Hunt for the iPhone and iPad.
iVillage revealed the winners of its Second Annual iVillage Entertainment Awards, which recognized “the actresses, actors, characters, scenes, shows, movies, and more that had the iVillage community abuzz in 2010.”
Entertainment editor Serena Kappes said:
With the iVillage Entertainment Awards, we knew that we’d tapped into something that really resonated with our pop-culture-news-loving entertainment community. We saw a huge response in the hundreds of thousands of votes the awards received.
The winners:
Unless you live under a rock, odds are that you’ve heard that Katy Perry was kicked off Sesame Street last week. Her music video with Elmo was deemed inappropriate by parents, due to some serious cleavage and a slightly provocative acting style. Since the video was banned from Sesame Street it has been the talk of the town on YouTube and numerous parodies and commentaries have been uploaded. Was the original Sesame Street video inappropriate? How about the parodies? Check them out and let us know what you think!
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MTV is getting ready to rock ‘n’ roll for the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, which will air live on the cable network from Nokia Theater L.A. Live in Los Angeles Sunday at 9 p.m. ET (tape-delayed PT), announcing sponsorship integrations with Yahoo! and Verizon Communications; integration with Twitter and foursquare; and VMA-themed collections from the Rock Band 3 Avatar Store.
Yahoo! and MTV teamed up on Behind the Lens, a series on the VMA hub on MTV.com that adds pop-up Flash overlays to five VMA-nominated videos: B.o.B‘s “Airplanes,” Katy Perry‘s “California Gurls,” Jason Derulo‘s “In My Head,” Usher‘s “OMG,” and 3OH!3 featuring Ke$ha‘s “My First Kiss.” Previous winners Beyoncé‘s “Single Ladies,” Green Day‘s “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” and Justin Timberlake‘s “Sexy Back” are also featured. And Yahoo! is the official sponsor of the VMA live stream.
MTV News’ Jim Cantiello will contribute breaking news, backstage coverage, and insider access to Sean Kingston, sponsored by Verizon, which will offer two-minute clips via its V CAST video service and the MTV app for Android-powered mobile phones.
The music television network will also debut a new version of Stamen Design‘s Twitter Tracker, a real-time graph of activity on the microblogging service, which displays larger images for people or awards generating the most Tweets, and also allows users to sign on to their accounts and Tweet directly from the page.
Black Beat magazine publisher Dorchester Media is bringing content related to its coverage of urban, hip-hop and rap music to mobile phones. The company hooked up with Skycore, which operates the Cellyspace mobile messaging platform, for the launch of Black Beat‘s Pimp Your Phone lineup of mobile wallpapers.
The debut collection includes wallpapers of Christina Aguilera, Nelly, Katy Perry, Pretty Ricky’s Spectacular and a few others.
Each wallpaper is assigned its own keyword. To purchase one, users text the keyword to 33563. The wallpapers cost 99 cents each plus whatever messaging charges apply. Details and keywords are on Black Beat‘s Web site.
Fox Mobile Distribution is feeling the love this Valentine’s Day and sharing the most popular love-themed mobile content downloads from its Jamster service.
Cupids who want to get their beloved or secret crush a little something might pick up some tips from Jamster’s top Valentine-themed wallpapers, ringtones games.
If the lists don’t help, there’s an SMS game from Armor available through Jamster that suggests romantic messages that you can personalize for your loved one.
Jamster’s Top 10 lists are after the jump.
