Looks like Google wants to add another trophy to their collection.

Nothing will stop them from global domination!

Wired magazine reports that the big G has launched a service called Knol - short for 'knowledge' - which is basically a different flavored Wikipedia.

Watch out Wiki, Google wants your crown!

The biggest difference between the two knowledge sharing services is the 'ownership' of posts.

As y'all know, on Wikipedia a person can't really 'own' a post. What you see on Wiki is basically everyone's 2 cents about a topic.

Google's Knol gives you the opportunity to 'own' a post about a subject without 'rejecting the wisdom of the crowd'. And, unlike Wikipedia, your 'identity' must be verified (via a credit card or phone number) before your posts go live. Once an author creates a 'knol', the general public can improve it. People can suggest corrections, edits and amendments to the content. Readers can also leave comments alongside the content.

However, the author is the arbiter of the item itself. She/he can reject suggestions BUT can't delete the comments. There's no limit on how many people can write 'knols' on the same subjects, but the guys at Google expect 'the inferior ones' to take a back seat in search results while searchers encounter the best ones immediately.

Here's the big kicker to us, though. There's money involved in the Google option!

If authors OK it, Google will compensate them with revenue from advertisements served by the company's AdSense program.

Google has said Knol's not all about the money. It's about getting the best info out there to those who need it!

$ure. What ever they say!

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about Google's foray into the space that's been dominated by Wikipedia: "What is the added value? People already can put up web pages somewhere on the internet, put some ads on it if they want to get revenue or not put ads if they don't want the revenue."

There's nothing wrong with a little competition, right?

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Hey serial daters!

If you think breaking things off by voicemail is a-OK, there's a new mobile service out in the market place that's just for you, according to a new report.

A service called Slydial lets you connect directly with another person's cell phone voicemail by bypassing the traditional ringing process.

You no longer have to wait til he's on the subway or she's on a plane to place the stressful break up call!

Or if you're too chicken to ask someone out on a date, don't speak to them and be guaranteed to get their vm.

Sounds perrrrfect!

Recipients of the Slydial call would get a voicemail notification, and sometimes a 'missed call' notification.

But, there are constraints to this service. It can only be used in the U.S. right now, and generally won't work with prepaid cell phones.

Also, "Sly" dialers must have the caller ID feature activated on their phones to prevent people from using it to harass people undetected.

The founder of Slydial, thinks it can be useful not only in the dating scene, but also in the hectic business world, "Everybody has gone through the scenario where they've called somebody and just hoped they got voicemail so they didn't have to have a conversation."

True, true!

We gotta say that breakup by Slydial is definitely more humane than breakup by text!

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Ladies!

According to Daily Variety, video games based on the movies Mean Girls, Clueless and Pretty in Pink are in the works.

How fun!

We'd totally rock the Clueless game as Cher!!

Gamers are usually male and on the younger-skewing side.

Will you buy any of these games????

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As we've previously mentioned, Jimmy Fallon will be taking over for Conan O'Brien on Late Night when ginger locks takes the late night top spot from Jay Leno.

Well, the producer of Late Night, Lorne Michaels (who also heads up Saturday Night Live too), wants Jimmy to "to work out as many of the rough spots in his presentation" online before the big dance, according to the New York Times.

The web performances will likely begin in the fall, long before the transition in '09.

The online videos probably won't be anything like an entire hour-long show.

Michaels said, “I expect that we’ll do something like 5 or 10 minutes.”

He went on to say Jimmy most likely will be on every night, to try to establish the rhythm of a nightly show, “I’m going to post them at 12:30 every night, so people will begin to look for Jimmy at that time.”

Hey, Jimmy/Lorne…he can try his stuff out on Perez TV!

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We mentioned last month that Avril Lavigne's "hard core fans" were on a mission to make her video for the song Girlfriend the most played ever on YouTube.

Well, as of Friday morning, Team Avril toppled the now former #1 spot holder, the Evolution of Dance video, with 92,696,978 views.

BUT, Douchette Supremo's video didn't get there by legit means!

As we've previously reported - and corroborated by Wired - a website was created to automatically play the Girlfriend video every 15 seconds. Avril's fans inflated her play counts, propelling her vid to "most viewed" ever.

Avril's "Band Aids" plan to use this shady tactic til her vid gets to the 100 million views mark, the first-ever to do so on YouTube.

YouTube's policy is to remove videos from the most-played section if they discover that their view count system has been gamed.

Why haven't they done that??????

YouTube still has April's video listed in the site's "most viewed of all time" category.

Wired went on to reveal that YouTube has probably turned a blind eye to Avril's shadiness because the site's making advertising money off of the fake views.

Shady Lavigne's manager revealed the following at a business conference in London on Thursday:
"there's about a $2 million check waiting for her for all her YouTube plays."

Douchette and her managers are getting a cut of YouTube advertising sales money! Money they didn't even get by legit means!

We hope the shadily earned money is going to a charity.

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Lazy asses around the world rejoice!

On Monday, Microsoft announced that it is partnering up with Netflix so Xbox 360 owners can play movies on demand through their consoles.

Under the agreement, the streaming-movie service will be playable on televisions connected to the console without any additional software or hardware.

About 10,000 movie titles will be available through the service.

Hopefully they're 'good' movie titles.

Pretty cool!

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The numbers are in and…

Apple sold 1 million iPhones in the three days since the device's latest incarnation went on sale on Friday.

Did you buy it? Did you like it?

Was it worth it????

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We mentioned recently that Facebook 'outed' on-again couple Lily Allen and Ed Simmons.

Well, Facebook strikes again!

A Facebook friend of saMAN Ronson's (yes, her real profile) just revealed to us that the Man has changed her status to "In a Relationship".

Isn't that sweet, Lindsay?

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As we've mentioned before, Lindsay Lohan's father, Michael, is a desperate famewhore.

Just like his fame-loving, desperado ex-wife, Dina, the ex-con is going to be doing some work in front of the camera.

Poppa Lohan will be starring in a new web series titled Wanna Be Me!. He's signed on to play the "guardian angel of light" surrounding a big Hollywood personality.

At least Dina's show made it on to a cable channel!

Wanna Be Me! starts shooting in June.

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