Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, and Zachary Levi are playing each other in Halo: Reach in this Funny or Die viral video. Check out who makes a cameo at the end (video is after the jump):
It is #CelebTweetTuesday at Pulse2.com. Under this hashtag, we aggregate the most interesting tweets from celebrities over the past week. This past week we have seen Aimee Man and Ice-T get in a Twitter fight, Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey compliment each other on Twitter before breaking up, and Snoop wondering what you’re doing for 420.
Happy Friday everybody. Today is February 5, 2010 and below is the Pulse2 News Roundup. We are going to talk about Facebook, Apple, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sony, Jersey Shore, Google Earth, FriendFinder, TechCrunch, Patrick Stewart, Jon Stewart, and Bill O’Reilly today.
Facebook 400 Million and Project Titan
Facebook is working on overhauling their message system in order to replace it with a web mailing system. The code name for the project is Project Titan [TechCrunch]. Facebook has also turned 6 years old this week and has reached the 400 million user milestone. [Mashable]
Location Based Apple Ads and iTunes Web Browser
Apple has notified App Store developers that they will be prohibited from using location based advertisements for their applications. “If your app uses location-based information primarily to enable mobile advertisers to deliver targeted ads based on a user’s location, your app will be returned to you by the App Store Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store,” Apple said [MacNN]. You can now browse the App Store on the web [PCWorld].
Snoop Vader
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg was caught in the middle of an imperial march walking around SoHo New York. It looks like Snoop has crossed over to the dark side since he is walking right next to Darth Vader. [HuffPo]
Sony Profits
Sony announced yesterday that they have returned to profit during the last three months of 2009. As a result, the company raised their outlook. [New York Times]
Snooki Crasher
A new meme has hit the Internet thanks to Jersey Shore character Nicole “Snooki” Pilozzi. The meme is called Snooki Crasher and it features images of Snooki in places where she doesn’t belong. Below are a couple of examples. [URLesque]
World War II on Google Earth
Images of World War II destruction have been uploaded to Google Earth. The cities where the images were uploaded include Berlin, Bordeaux, Hamburg, Cologne and Dresden. [Telegraph]
FriendFinder Cancels IPO
The FriendFinder Network filed for an IPO about a month ago. The FriendFinder Network is a brand that oversees porn websites and social networks. The company was supposed to start trading this week, but they have cancelled due to “market conditions.” [AllThingsD]
TC Intern Fired
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington apologized to his readers on behalf of an intern that accepted a MacBook as compensation for writing a blog post. The intern was fired and every blog post he wrote was deleted. “I apologize to each one of you. I promise that we will always maintain complete transparency with you on how we operate, even when it isn’t such an easy thing to do,” stated Arrington in his apology. [TechCrunch]
Patrick Stewart on Twitter
Patrick Stewart, the Star Trek Captain Jean-Luc Picard, calls his mobile phone “my beautiful iPhone.” But he doesn’t quite understand Twitter and is has a fear of getting addicted to gaming. “To reduce life to–how many? 140? Just seems to me to be a little bit simplistic. Maybe I like complexity and abstraction too much.” [HuffPo]. And if you’re a fan of Patrick Stewart, check out a project that my friend Mo Kakwan made at Yahoo! Hack Day a few years ago.
Bill O’Reilly vs. Jon Stewart
Comedy Central news host Jon Stewart was a guest on FOX host Bill O’Reilly’s TV show earlier this week. The debate between Stewart and O’Reilly attracted 4,091,000 viewers. And about 1,041,000 of those viewers were aged between 25 and 54. [BusinessInsider]
Rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg is coming out with a new pair of headphones through a partnership with Skullcandy. The new headphones will be called Snoop Crusher and the design pattern is a bandana. The colors come in black or blue. Built in will be two 30mm neodynium magnetic speakers with two mini-subwoofers. The headphones will cost about £64.99 which comes out to be less than Dr. Dre’s Monster Beat headphones. Any bets on which rapper will make the next headphones? My guess is P. Diddy.