Last week was an interesting one for trends on Facebook.  The week started off with celebrity doppelganger, where everyone changed their profile picture to their supposed celebrity look alike.  As the week wrapped up, another trend started where the Facebook masses used urbandictionary.com to search for their first name.  They then pasted whatever definition was returned and used that as their status message.  So, what impact did this Facebook phenomenon have for Urban Dictionary?

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I had mixed emotions when I tuned into Conan O’Brien’s last episode as the host of NBC’s Tonight Show a couple of Fridays ago.  However, my emotions quickly became “joyous and inspirational” as I listened to Conan, also known to his fans as Coco.  Conan mentioned how he was finally allowed to say anything he wanted about NBC and the debacle with Jay Leno over the Tonight Show spot.  Conan had nothing but kind words to say though.  He was grateful for his fans and for NBC making everything possible in his career of over 20 years as a writer on Saturday Night Live (SNL), host of the Late Night Show, and his short stint on the Tonight Show.  He claimed, “This should be a happy moment,” and had encouraging words particularly for his younger audience to not be “cynical” in life.  Conan showed behind all of his goofy, off-the-wall humor, there is a genuine class act.

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With the unemployment rate at 10%, the stock market 30% below its peak from the fall of 2007 and companies continuing to announce layoffs, it can be hard to remain optimistic these days.  However, Oscar Mayer is trying to change that by bringing some cheer with its Good Mood Mission campaign, which is a charity program aimed at feeding the hungry.  Consumers are encouraged to go to their Good Mood Mission site to submit a “good mood” comment that starts with “it doesn’t get better than”.  For each good mood submitted, the company will donate a pound of food to Feeding America, a hunger relief charity organization.  I submitted a “good mood” myself and I did end up in a better mood just by thinking about the things that put me in a good mood.

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The 2009 holiday shopping season is shaping up to be the battle of retail’s two titans:  Amazon.com, the largest online retailer vs. Walmart, the world’s largest brick and mortar retailer.   For years, at least online, this has hardly been a contest, with Amazon leaving all rivals in its ever growing wake.  This year, however, Walmart has taken significant steps to compete head on with Amazon.

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The Death of Newspapers or the Rise of Reddit?

TechCrunch recently pointed out that “Google’s Got Some Suggestions” about what Newspapers are:

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It’s well known that Microsoft’s ten year old Internet Explorer 6 is still widely used by late (late, late) adopters and those that are held at the mercy of lethargic Corporate IT departments.

Until now, Microsoft hasn’t really prioritized encouraging users to upgrade.

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