Ypulse Essentials: Texting Radio, The Basement, SophiaDolls

Zwinky Bucks (you can now use real money to buy virtual stuff in Zwinktopia) (Webware)

- Radio discovers SMS (texting into win contests is a hit with the kids) (Reuters)

- What's Different about the Ys (@ work) (BusinessWeek)

- Real 'Gossip Girls' (say the new series hits close to home) (New York Times, reg. required)

- VICE TV (feels a lot like Current except more hipster [Spike Jonze is involved and Viacom is behind it]. And, congrats to my former colleagues at Current for their big Emmy win last night. You can sign up to be a Beta tester for the relaunch of the Current site here) (Reuters)

- Is Soulja Boy (the new blueprint for the music industry?) (Reuters)

- 'The Basement' ("It's a youth-oriented church service — part concert, part pep rally — led by 23-year-old Matt Pitt, a self-taught evangelist who's been preaching his message of clean living, racial conciliation, and sold-out-for-God Christianity since 2004.") (Christian Science Monitor)

- How does the The CW stay hip? (by reading Ypulse…see the shout out in this Broadcasting & Cable article)

- SophiaDolls ("are realistically proportioned to represent real women’s body shapes, ranging from a size 6 to a size 16"…coming to QVC in March) (Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly)

P.S. Not sure if any of you caught this, but my CBS Early Show appearance speaking about "virtual dolls" finally aired. Of course they interviewed me for about a half hour and chose two sound bites. Gotta love TV.

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