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In a reflection of its expanding premium content strategy, YouTube has unveiled two new original channels focused on cars: Motor Trend and Drive. The Motor Trend channel, created by Source Interlink Media, will include original content from the likes of Motor Trend. Meanwhile Drive will take viewers behind the scenes and "[celebrate] the rich culture of cars." Content will include news, reviews and commentary from industry figures such as Chris Harris, Mike Spinelli, Leo Parente, and Alex Roy.

kinda interesting -- uses brad pitt's brother as a non-celeb endorser. 

video chat platform Interact live with your favorite writers, celebrities, bands, and more. Discover conversations about topics you are interested in. Enjoy built-in text chat and ask on-screen questions.

Google+ hangouts On Air - for public figures, celebrities and users with large number of followers. Whereas the original Hangouts were limited to groups of ten, with one host and nine participants, the new version allows everyone beyond the participating group to watch the hangout as a YouTube live stream. The host can broadcast the session to specific Google+ Circles or to the public on Google+.

Rethinking how people think about age.

French fast-food chain Quick brings that fantasy to life, celebrating the 3-D release of The Phantom Menace with menu items inspired by characters from George Lucas's iconic film franchise. The Darth Vader and Darth Maul burgers boast blackened or ruddy buns.

Trading in Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne for tech stars Kevin Systrom who co-founded Instagram and Philippe Kahn who created one of the first camera phones, Best Buy is eschewing celebrity for Silicon Valley.

in celebration of 48th anni -- they created a FB timeline going back to 1964 when they were founded -- people can go back through the timeline to get a coupon for a arby's roast beef sandwich at the price it was in 1964 -- 64 cents. people could only redeem on 7/23 which was their anni

Other celebrities have used their Tumblr accounts as platform for their personal views. Singer Lauryn Hill posted a message in June about the allegations she failed to pay taxes. Performer Frank Ocean also used his personal Tumblr in early July to reveal his first love was with a man.

To celebrate Helsinki as the capital of design, and to illustrate the importance of good design, interactive pop-up cafes were set up all over the city that were complete with tables, music, lighting and more that are remotely controlled by people online.

According to a rate card distributed to ad agencies, two hot verticals -- music and pop culture -- were $62 million apiece for one-year sponsorships, a package of sports channels was $40 million, an autos package was $16 million and a mom's interest package $10 million. YouTube has since subdivided the verticals into smaller packages in categories such as "Celebrity News," "Music and Film" or "Geeks, Gadgets and Games," which cost $10 million to $20 million to sponsor. YouTube also lets advertisers exclusively sponsor a single channel for anywhere from $2 million to $4 million on an annual basis.

lexus and pandora partner to bring lexus banner ads into pandora -- users can experience the mobile site all through their phone

campaign called "sole seekers" in celebration of neiman marcus 20th anniversary. submit photos of christian louboutin shoes they own or see at neiman marcus stores via instagram or twitter - entries will also be shown on neiman marcus fb page and their blog nmdaily. one winner will be selected randomly to win a pair of shoes.

Popdust has moved from being a website on celebrities, to being a platform to sell the stuff that is associated them. And as their traffic, and presumably their revenue, has grown, investors have noticed.

There were lots of exciting moments, these were mine and I bet Claire and Raimo will have others. From the opening of the platform, launching the iPhone version, to reaching the 1,000,000 user mark or the 3,000 developer and the 1,000 layer mark. Or the global distribution deals with Samsung and others. All are good and many more to come. We haven't made it yet, we've only just begun.

Intersection of barcodes and art. When one of the over 1500 barcodes that comprise the celebrity images is scanned, a video clip of that celebrity was played on a nearby laptop. 

UK girl scout association is lobbying the UK gov to have all photoshoped images clearly marked daily 8.4

daily 8.24 dude is trying to get celeb followers on twitter by creating websites

daily 11.9