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		<title>Montana Fishburne: Father Very Hurt Over Adult Film</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it has been widely reported Montana Fishburne signed on with Vivid Entertainment to star in an adult film in hopes to launch a career similar to the way Kim Karshian launched hers. The daughter of actor Laurence Fishburne recently told TMZ her father was very hurt by her actions especially because he was not [...]]]></description>
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<p>As it has been widely reported Montana Fishburne signed on with Vivid Entertainment to star in an adult film in hopes to launch a career similar to the way Kim Karshian launched hers. The daughter of actor Laurence Fishburne recently told TMZ her father was very hurt by her actions especially because he was not warned of the tape before the media was made aware of it. While he is very upset right now she has hopes she will be able to work things out with him at some point in the future.</p>
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		<title>Justin Bieber Gets Nailed By a Water Bottle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Justin Bieber “Baby” Parody – Horny</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Official OLD MAN parody of the hit single &#8220;Baby&#8221; by Justin Bieber starring &#8220;Justin Geezer&#8221;. </p>
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		<title>Ridley Scott: Shooting for Life In A Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create the world&#8217;s largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>This guy made a huge bike all by himself.  Hopefully it doesn&#8217;t fall apart!</p>
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<p>This guy made a huge bike all by himself.  Hopefully it doesn&#8217;t fall apart!</p>
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		<title>Apple, Toyota, and the Great Media Piling-on</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember back when people thought their Toyotas were trying to kill them? And then the company issued huge recalls after a bunch of people peeled into traffic, blaming stuck accelerators, floor-mats, and computers? And then, quietly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Association basically said the crashes were caused by &#8220;pedal misapplication&#8221; i.e. some doofus holding [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/000-0121134735-David_Goliath2.jpeg">Remember back when people thought their Toyotas were trying to kill them? And then the company issued huge recalls after a bunch of people peeled into traffic, blaming stuck accelerators, floor-mats, and computers? And then, quietly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Association basically said the crashes were caused by &#8220;pedal misapplication&#8221; i.e. some doofus holding down the accelerator when he meant to hold down the brake?  Good times.</p>
<p>Toyota&#8217;s recall frenzy really took off in the winter of 2009 as floor mats galore were sent back for a good scrubbing. Like the Grinch taking the tree and all the presents to fix one little light bulb, Toyota seemed at once haughty and suspicious until they finally threw in the towel in January and offered a number of mea culpas. You&#8217;ll also recall that last November we were in an economic doldrums, cars weren&#8217;t selling, and anything manufacturers could do to get a leg up in the auto race was fair game. Toyota&#8217;s fall, then, definitely reduced their sales and although it&#8217;s hard to assess the improvement in competitor&#8217;s numbers (almost everyone has seen year-to-year decreases in sales since 2008), it&#8217;s clear Toyota&#8217;s non-issue was the industry&#8217;s gain. Although I don&#8217;t want to belittle the lives lost in the single tragic Lexus accelerator issue, it&#8217;s abundantly clear that Toyota was unfairly blamed for a number of issues that weren&#8217;t its fault.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&#038;blog=11718616&#038;post=198357&#038;subd=tctechcrunch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" /><br />
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		<title>Freelancer.com Acquires Freemarket, Launches Virtual Content Marketplace</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online marketplace for outsourcing Freelancer.com, formerly known as GetAFreelancer has acquired virtual content marketplace Freemarket.com and is relaunching Freemarket&#8217;s platform under the Freelancer.com brand. Freelancer.com focuses primarily on providing a marketplace for remote workers. Freelancer.com now caters to a user base of 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses (up from 1 million in October 2009) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/freelancer-com-online-jobs-freelance-employment-outsourcing-services-programmers-web-design-freelancers.png" class="shot2">Online marketplace for outsourcing <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freelancer.com/">Freelancer.com</a>, formerly <a target="_blank" href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/getafreelancer-hits-1-million-users-switches-name-to-freelancer-com/">known as GetAFreelancer</a> has <a target="_blank" href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/freelancercom-acquires-freemarketcom-launches-online-marketplace-for-virtual-goods-98747284.html">acquired</a> virtual content marketplace <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freelancer.com/marketplace/">Freemarket.com</a> and is relaunching Freemarket&#8217;s platform under the Freelancer.com brand.</p>
<p>Freelancer.com focuses primarily on providing a marketplace for remote workers. Freelancer.com now caters to a <a target="_blank" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/06/freelancer-geolocation-html5-jobs/">user base of 1.7 million</a> small and medium-sized businesses (up from <a target="_blank" href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/07/getafreelancer-hits-1-million-users-switches-name-to-freelancer-com/">1 million</a> in October 2009) and says it has outsourced more than 725,000 projects to date.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&#038;blog=11718616&#038;post=198361&#038;subd=tctechcrunch&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" /><br />
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		<title>Compass Labs Raises $5 Million To Pinpoint Purchase Intent On Twitter</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, that was fast. Only two months after launching at TechCrunch Disrupt, startup Compass Labs has already raised a round of funding. Compass Labs, which aims to provide targeted advertising on social networks like Twitter and Facebook around what users intend to purchase, has raised million from NEA, Triple Point Capital, Jim Clark, Mike Ramsay [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/87320v2-max-250x250.jpeg" class="shot2">Well, that was fast. Only two months after <a target="_blank" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/25/compass-labs-tries-to-pinpoint-purchase-intent-on-twitter/">launching</a> at <a target="_blank" href="http://disrupt.techcrunch.com/2010-sf/">TechCrunch Disrupt,</a> startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.compasslabs.com/">Compass Labs</a> has already raised a round of funding. Compass Labs, which aims to provide targeted advertising on social networks like Twitter and Facebook around what users intend to purchase, has raised  million from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/new-enterprise-associates">NEA,</a> Triple Point Capital, Jim Clark, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-ramsay">Mike Ramsay</a> and others. This brings the startup&#8217;s total funding to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/compass-labs"> million </a></p>
<p>Compass Labs looks at Twitter streams and tries to determine when someone has an intent to purchase a product, then it serves up related ads either through direct messages or through banner ads on third-party Twitter clients. So if you Tweet, &#8220;I&#8217;m looking for a Canon camera&#8221; it will reply in stream or on a banner with an ad from a camera retailer for that camera. Compass Labs uses natural language processing to parse out the Tweets that have serious intent versus just talking about a product generally.  Campaigns can be set to target people at different parts of the purchasing cycle, from exploratory to ready to buy right now. </p>
<p>Of course, advertising on Twitter recently came into question after Twitter  <a target="_blank" href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/did-twitter-just-kill-tweetup-minutes-after-its-launch/">revised</a> its Terms of Service, prohibiting any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the Twitter API. But Compass Labs says that it complies with Twitter&#8217;s TOS because it serves display ads, which are not in-stream and simply uses real-estate on a publisher site, much like an ad network. In fact, the startup expects that Twitter will actually embrace Compass Labs&#8217; solution as an example of how to monetize while benefiting the entire Twitter ecosystem.</p>
<p>Founded by Google and Yahoo veteran <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dilip-venkatachari">Dilip Venkatachari</a> (he led Google&#8217;s mobile ad business), Compass Labs will use the funding for product development as well as bulding out sales and business development channels. The company now has a number of advertisers and publishers using its platform (Venkatachari declined name these partners) and is starting to see revenue from its network. </p>
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