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    Shadowlayer: Seems pincus here has sent a whole bunch of "friends" to spam the place... more »
    Lizawithazee: Thanks for reminding me why she makes me so uncomfortable. All that "you are your own best whatever!" followed by "...if you buy THIS and THIS and THI... more »
    Meglantine: Some kind of drug has to be involved in Oprah's weird elf-dance in 13. No one does that just because they're excited about low-fat cookies. more »
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    Atilla the Bun: I can attest that Ginger Man body scrub sucks. That is all.... more »
    Lysergic Asset: After the Oprah-Obama Christmas Special, Gallup will release a poll announcing that 79% of registered Republicans still think President Obama is a Mus... more »
    Alaska Miller: It's like telling a city bus to stop only at Burger King instead of McDonald's and expecting everyone to pay extra for free ice cream. more »
    Monty: What is more interesting than search engines paying for content is that this could ultimately save the news media business. Ignoring the concern to J... more »
    Magister: What happens when you look for a foreign or local story? I assume the Fox O&Os will be part of the equation, as will their Australian and UK paper... more »
    sweetpickles: Yes. You'll find the same news at other sites by searching through Google. This isn't only about Murdoch walling off his sites, though. This is about ... more »
    Hello Mister Walrus: I think this is really audience-specific. I work for a bank, so if I had to choose between Google + no WSJ and some other search engine that is 97% as... more »
    Gabriel Snyder: And notice in that first search that while News Corp. is saying it can live without Google, it's also buying up ad keywords like "lieberman public opt... more »
    manchops: but have you tried googling: "Andrea Peyser + sex goddess?" I mean, hello? more »
    If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Perfect. And if they take even one step in the direction of "You can't quote our stories" they will drive themselves so far into irrelevancy ... more »
    SanFranLefty: Publisher of our local fish wrap/Sharon Stone's ex piles on Mayor McDreamy and his demands to dictate all press interviews: [www.sfgate.com] more »
  • #markzuckerberg

    Oprah Pal Plays Yenta with Facebook CEO

    How much coffee did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg drink before going on Oprah? We've never seen the 24-year-old Harvard dropout talk this fast. Instead of nervous pauses, he filled the air with spew. More »
  • #selfpromotion

    Mark Zuckerberg Jumps the Couch

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah share one goal: They want to know what you're feeling. Zuckerberg prefers you tell him via computer, though, so why's he going on her show tomorrow? More »
  • #freakoutnomics

    Why Walmart won't ruin the iPhone

    Remember how Oprah once threatened to ruin the life of novelist Jonathan Franzen by selecting his book for her club and thereby making him lots and lots of money? Walmart might do the same to Apple's iPhone!