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Bengals receiver Jerome Simpson may have scored the touchdown of the season on Sunday.

In a play that will be shown on highlight reels for years to come, Simpson leaped over Cardinals defender Daryl Washington, completed a full flip, and stuck his landing in the end zone.  Here’s a clip of the play.

That score put the Bengals up 17-0. they extended the lead to 20-0 by halftime.

The Bengals defense from the early part of the year showed up for this game. they have three sacks and two interceptions in the first half.

Cincinnati has been one of the most surprising stories of the season. Barring the most insane Cardinals comeback yet, it looks like they’ll enter Week 17 very much alive for a playoff berth.

(Photo courtesy of Clay Travis on Twitter.)

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E! PREMIERES LADY GAGA’S “MARRY THE NIGHT” MUSIC VIDEO EXCLUSIVELY IN a HALF-HOUR SPECIAL AIRING THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1st

“E! News Special: Lady Gaga: Marry The Night” Features One-on-One Interview With The Superstar and The World Premiere of The 13 Minute Video

Los Angeles, CA– November 30, 2011 – Calling all Little Monsters! E! goes deep into the mind of Lady Gaga for a 30-minute special featuring an exclusive sit-down with this fascinating artist and the world premiere of her latest music video – a 13-minute story set to “Marry the Night.” The smash single is the fifth off her album Born this Way and serves as an homage to her hometown, new York City, and her marriage to her work. Gaga previously stated via Twitter that this video will be her longest ever and the “beginning of the story I never told you…” The production is incredibly personal as it is an account of the worst day of Gaga’s life as only this icon can tell it. Don’t miss this intimate look at one of music’s most intriguing artists when the “E! News Special: Lady Gaga: Marry The Night” airs Thursday, December 1st at 8:00pm ET/PT. directly following the special, E! Online will be the exclusive place to see the video again in its entirety.

In the half-hour special leading up to the exclusive video premiere, Gaga sits with E!’s own Jason Kennedy and explains in great detail her inspiration for this latest project. As she often has in the past, the multi-platinum artist pulled from her own experiences to create this instant masterpiece, giving fans a rare piece of insight into her intriguing world. Gaga explains that this video is about one of the most painful moments of her life – when she had the taste of her dreams on her tongue and then had it taken away. for her, this piece is “so true to her life that it terrifies her.”

While Gaga has always been the driving force behind all of her projects, she takes Kennedy through the experience of solo directing this video for the first time, explaining how she had a very clear vision from start to finish and worked hard to make it not too beautiful. She called the video a twisted ballet where she was always a broken bird, but now this broken bird has been brought to the front of the class. Rich with Gaga’s powerful choreography, fascinating costume choices and theatrical flair, “Marry The Night” takes viewers on a thrilling journey through this artist’s mysterious and beautiful life.

Lady Gaga came to prominence following the release of her debut studio album The Fame (2008), which included the hits “Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” and “Bad Romance” and sold over 15 million copies worldwide. She is well-recognized for her outré sense of style as a recording artist, in fashion, in performance and in her music videos. her contributions to the music industry have garnered her numerous accolades including five Grammy Awards amongst twelve nominations, two Guinness World Records, a record setting thirteen MTV Video Music Award nominations and the estimated sale of 23 million albums and 64 million singles worldwide. Billboard named her both the “2010 Artist of the Year” and the top selling artist of 2010, ranking her as the 73rd Artist of the 2000s decade. her third studio album, Born this Way, broke the iTunes record for the fastest rise to the # 1 spot on release day. The singles from the album, including “Born this Way,” “Judas,” “The Edge of Glory” and “You and I” have sold a combined total of more than 8 million copies in the US alone. Gaga was named Forbes’ most Powerful Woman in the World 2011 and was included in Time’s annual “The 2010 Time 100″ list of the most influential people in the world. With over 1.9 billion combined views of all her videos online, Lady Gaga has more than 45 million ‘likes’ on Facebook and is #1 on Twitter with 16 million followers. Lady Gaga is the only artist in the digital era to top the 5 million sales mark with her first two hits.

E!’s tremendous, worldwide reach across all new media platforms makes the network the ideal forum for Gaga to reveal more of her story to her fans. Don’t miss this up-close-and-personal look at Lady Gaga and the exclusive premiere of her latest music video for “Marry The Night” when “E! News Special: Lady Gaga: Marry The Night” premieres Thursday, December 1st at 8:00pm ET/PT only on E! Log on to E! Online exclusively directly following the special to see the video again.

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Lenovo sashayed into Fashion Week 2011 by hosting the Lenovo Connections Lounge at Saks Fifth Avenue during Fashion’s Night Out (FNO), Thursday, Sept. 8. the lounge was bustling from 6-11PM as FNO shoppers, celebs, designers and bloggers stopped by to update their Twitter feeds, blog from one of the comfy couches, and charge their mobile devices. it was the perfect respite for high-heel clad consumers and busy fashion VIPs to kick back and relax during the busiest fashion event of the year.

Designers Rebecca Minkoff, Prabal Gurung, Alistair Carr of Pringle of Scotland and Guy Bedarida of John Hardy stopped by the lounge to check out the new Ultrabooks and pose for photos with our own Tracey Trachta, VP of consumer marketing, and Nick Reynolds, executive director of marketing and communications, worldwide product group.

Taking FNO beyond New York City, Lenovo and Fashion’s Night out joined forces with several of the world’s top fashion bloggers from around the world, along with celebrities and designers to attend the lounge and take in all of the high-fashion technology. Actor Shane McRae from the new hit film The Help, Madeline Andrews Escudero, senior fashion market editor of Glamour Magazine, and actress Enid Graham of HBO’s premier series Boardwalk Empire, were some of the attendees wowed by the design and features of the U300s. International bloggers that came in especially for Lenovo’s event during FNO 2011 include fashion-guru and editor in chief of a lifestyle website Libuse Drdakova (Czech Republic), BitchBuzz editor Cate Sevilla (UK), Vogue editor Ece Sukan (Turkey) and blogger Adrian Seet (Singapore), not to mention representatives from Germany, Russia, Dubai, India, Canada and Poland.

we showcased our stylish new IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook, a PC boasting robust and speedy processing all in a chic silhouette in the hottest colors of the season, Graphite Gray and Clementine Orange. this PC is powered by up to 2nd Generation Core Intel processors, which give consumers fast boot up and response times and a great user experience paired with long battery life. With its super slim silhouette of just 0.6 inches and tipping in at under three pounds, this is the perfect fashion statement cum tech device to take anywhere and everywhere for high performance computing, all in a stylish package.

Also gracing the lounge were one-of-a-kind fashion sleeves designed just for the IdeaPad U300s, created by young Chinese contemporary artist, Gao Yu, and haute couture fashion designer and model, Mary Ma. Lounge attendees along with fashion bloggers such as Amina Akhtar (New York Magazine, FashionEtc.com) and Colleen Nika (Rolling Stone) were loving these stylish PC accessories.

Hundreds of consumers entered to win a free U300s through the contest page pre-loaded on U300s Ultrabooks that were available to test drive in the Lenovo Connections Lounge. If you didn’t make it out for FNO, there is still time to enter for a chance to win one of the Ultrabooks through Thursday, September 15: IdeaPad U300s Giveaway.

Check out all of the celeb sightings and lounge pictures on our Flickr stream.

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The AppAdvice iPhone App Of the Week:

PostSecret, $1.99, Released September 4

Everybody has A Secret, but are you willing to Share?

PostSecret is one of the top-selling apps in the App Store right now and for good reason. Launched earlier this week, the iPhone/iPod touch app has one purpose: to let each of us tell the world all of our secrets. If this concept sounds refreshing and a bit unsettling at the same time, you’d be correct and here’s why.

Created by PostSecret, the $1.99 app offers an anonymous way to post secrets for the entire world to see.  Each secret, which can be forwarded to others via Facebook and Twitter, includes text and a photo.

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iProgress, $.99, Released September 4

New iProgress keeps you Organized And Goal Oriented

iProgress by Nitromsoft creates a new way to track your goals and progress on the iPhone.

The app takes a more natural route than traditional task managers like Remember the Milk or things, offering instead a platform for users to mark their own challenges, victories, and defeats.

Like other productivity apps available in the App Store, iProgress is designed to help users create goals, and then follow through with them. however, rather than using complicated charts or pre-formatted tables to get the job done, the app instead relies on the user’s own willpower and ability to input data.

Google Plus Photo Importer, $.99, Released September 6

Google Plus Photo Importer Arrives

Dropico has released the first of its kind Google Plus Photo Importer app, available now for the iPhone/iPod touch. Available for $.99, the app allows users to instantly upload photos into Google Plus through Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and Photobucket. the end result is very nice.

In order to use the service, you must first log into your Google Plus account, and then into each of your photo-sharing services. While this process is tedious at best, once it is done you don’t have to perform it again.

After your accounts are authenticated, you can select from one to 100 photos at a time to upload to Google Plus. Along the way, you’ll see a nice illustration showing two cartoon-like characters handing off the photos, one after the other.

Kinetik– Share the apps you love, Free, Released September 6

Kinetik – A Social Network for iOS Apps

A brand new application called “Kinetik,” which works kind of like a social network for iOS applications, is now available to download in the App Store. Once downloaded, users can “share the applications [they] love” with others. It’s also possible to view a list of the apps shared by friends, the most shared (“trending”) applications and shared apps by category from within Kinetik.

As outlined in the app’s release notes, Kinetik allows users to “stay up to date on the latest apps, get app recommendations from your friends, and see what apps are trending.” the application itself is available to download for free, and is compatible with the iPhone and iPod touch.

Blogger, Free, Released September 8

Google Launches Official Blogger App for iPhone

Good news if you use and enjoy Blogger, Google’s hosted blogging platform. Just minutes ago, Google released an official iPhone client for the service.

Called Blogger, the app is available free of charge on the App Store and it does everything you would expect. that is, you can use it to post new entries, upload images, or modify older posts, right from your iPhone. best of all, the app supports multiple accounts if you need it.

Grand Prix Story, $2.99, Released September 8

It’s Time to Hit the Track with Grand Prix Story

Grand Prix Story by Kairosoft Co.,Ltd is another simulation game from the makers of the popular Game Dev story, Hot Springs story, and Mega Mall story. Yep, it’s more of that addictive simulation game formula that you love so much.

In Grand Prix story, you are put in charge to manage your own racing team, with the goal of conquering the Grand Prix. but before that can happen, you have a lot of training to do, as well as finding the right people for your team. you have to start out as the worst, and work your way up to being the best. This title closely resembles Game Dev story more than the other recent releases.

MadPad – Remix Your Life, $.99, Released September 8

MadPad Makes Music out Of Your Life Using only Your iPhone

MadPad – Remix Your Life by Smule is another incredible casual music app for the iPhone from the famed developer of Leaf Trombone.

The app builds on its predecessor’s “social music” platform, creating a unique way to record and remix everyday life into incredible, beat-oriented performance pieces.

As a music creation tool, MadPad is somewhere between a video recorder and a loop machine, offering users the ability to record short snippets of their everyday life. Each of these samples is then arranged onto an editable beat pad. Tapping any of the recorded images reproduces that exact video portion. Tapping these pieces in sequence, obviously, has the potential to create some interesting beats.

The app comes with a number of stock sound sets, as well, in case users haven’t got the initiative to record their own. that being said, the included recorder is incredibly simple to use, and offers an excellent amount of detail for the medium at hand. there are also several other sound sets available for free via the included browser.

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Facebook, Free, Updated September 6

Facebook App get Major Update, but still not for iPad

Facebook has just released an update to its popular iPhone/iPod touch app. Unfortunately, the update still does not include iPad compatibility.

Version 3.5 of the Facebook app includes a number of tools that make it easier to share items with your friends. These features include the ability to tag friends and places in posts and share external links from a web view. in addition, the app includes newly designed Profile and Group Wall pages.

Plus, the Facebook app has improved the sharing tool to add privacy controls on posts and the ability to match those settings with those on the social networking website.

The best iPhone Apps Of the Week is published each weekend; a companion piece, The best iPad Apps Of the Week, is published separately.

Attention developers: If you would like your app to be considered for one of our “Best Of” lists, please me know by sending me a tweet @bryanmwolfe. Note: Your app must have been new or updated in the last week to make the current list.

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NEW YORK — new York Fashion Week opened Thursday with a promise of vibrant colors to shake off the inescapable shadow of the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The spring 2012 shows have another refreshing aspect to them this year: greater access than ever online for fashionistas wishing to watch not just from the comfort of their own homes, but on their smart phones.

Instead of having to get into fashion HQ at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, fans can get virtual front row seats through YouTube, where some 30 designers, including Oscar de la Renta and Marc Jacobs, will show live coverage on http://www.youtube.com/liverunway.

Then there’s Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites catering to the high-tech, high-fashion deluge.

“I’ve already seen three shows from my bed,” rejoiced one fashion-conscious Tweet.

The first designers to hit the catwalk were Nicholas and Christopher Kunz with their Nicholas K brand, featuring men and women in fluid outfits of green, grey and brown.

Kitted out in hoods, scarves, short trousers, long shorts — and bleak expressions — the models looked ready for desert expeditions, or a very relaxed war.

For BCBG Max Azria, the runway sparkled with yellows and oranges as models flitted in long, silky dresses with thigh-high slits, sandals, and an elegant, romantic look.

Instant reviews from fashion bloggers indicated the first hit of the shows.

Richard Chai splashed coral onto men’s jackets and stripes for dresses, along with neon stripes on shoe soles.

More than 250 designers are taking part in new York fashion week, which runs until September 15 and will see shows by Jacobs, Diane Von Furstenberg, Donna Karan and Tommy Hilfiger.

A dozen first-timers will star, including Pink Tartan, a collection inspired by French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot, while Felipe Oliveira Baptista makes a debut as new artistic director for Lacoste.

New York is the first stop in a month-long style marathon that will take the fashion world’s elite to London, Milan and Paris.

Overshadowing the shows in the big Apple is the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

However unlike a decade ago, when the annual fashion extravaganza was cancelled following the attacks, the schedule will run unchanged on Sunday, when President Barack Obama and others are in new York to remember the nearly 3,000 dead.

“It’s such a hard day to think about yet it’s so ever-present and it never leaves us,” said the director of Fashion Week, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.

“It’s a business. and we look to commemorate that time, but with respect to what happened and with respect to the industry, the show ultimately does have to go on,” she said.

On Thursday night in new York thousands of fashionistas were to celebrate the yearly Fashion’s Night out, when some 1,000 stores stay open into the night and designers and models spice up the crowds.

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linkedFA will integrate Thomson Reuters’ content as a premium service, enabling financial professionals to easily find and share industry news, market data, market analysis, and more within their network via best-in-breed social media tools. This integration will mark not only the largest foray of premium financial content offered via social media, but also the first time members can digitally communicate and collaborate on the content all from one location.

linkedFA CEO, Jason Bishara states: “we are excited to offer Thomson Reuters’ financial data and content within linkedFA. Once released, members will have access to industry-leading financial content and analysis with the ability to compliantly share this content with their networks on linkedFA, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn simultaneously. This relationship will prove to be an exceptionally powerful tool for independent advisors and investors who previously could not gain access to Thomson Reuters’ content. This is just our first step in the direction of integrating content, tools and resources to bring additional value to our members.”

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A homeless man, who hadn’t seen his daughter in over a decade, reunited with her Friday in Bryant Park after tracking her down through Twitter.

It was all smiles and hugs for Daniel Morales, 58, and his daughter Sarah Rivera as they saw each other for the first time in 11 years. “I feel rejoiced,” Morales said.

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“Just to find my dad after 11 years…I don’t even know how to feel right now, I’m just very, very happy,” Rivera said. “It’s an exciting moment.”

The two lost contact when Rivera moved from Puerto Rico to the United States with her mother in 2000.

Everything changed after Morales received a prepaid cell phone and a Twitter account courtesy of the project Underheard in New York.

WCBS 880 Reporter Catherine Cioffi spoke with the homeless shelter’s spokesman about the insight into the men’s Twitter updates.

On Wednesday, three weeks into the project, Morales decided to use the social neworking tool to find his 27-year-old daughter, and posted his cell phone number and a photo of Rivera when she was 16.

A stranger saw the message, reached out to Rivera and on Thursday, Morales got the call he’s been waiting for.

“It [Twitter] holds a purpose and that purpose is you can instantly find anybody and it’s amazing,” Rivera said.

“Just getting in touch with my daughter again after 11 years and seeing my grandkids, it’s awesome,” Morales said.

Dad and daughter now say both of their lives are forever changed.”I’m gonna have them in my life,” Morales said. “I’m gonna do whatever it takes to keep them near me.”

Rivera, who lives in a domestic violence shelter in Brooklyn with her two young children, said she has also been searching for her father all these years. “I intend on keeping him in my life now,” Rivera said.

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In a YouTube video posted by the group prior to the emotional reunion, Morales has a smile plastered across his face as he speaks with his daughter.  “I just found out about my daughter, I’ve been looking for her for years, she just called me out of nowhere,” Morales said while wiping away tears.

Morales, who now has over 3,000 followers on Twitter, said he never knew the Internet could be so great. one person even expressed interest in helping Morales write his book.

Underheard in New York decided to give four men in New York City cell phones and Twitter accounts to help them tell the world what it’s like to be homeless.

“Danny actually said that he always wanted to tell his story but he never thought anyone would listen to it and I said someone’s out there, someone will want to hear,” Rosemary Melchier, of Underhead in New York, said.

As he rekindles his relationship with his family, Morales said he will keep on Tweeting.

According to Underheard in New York, Morales moved to the United States in 1969 from Puerto Rico. he worked as a security guard before he was hurt on the job. Morales spends most nights at the New York City Rescue Mission where he also helps with housekeeping duties.

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If it seems as though messages from Super Bowl marketers are flying at you from every direction — even from inside Kim Kardashian ‘s private gym for Skechers — you may understand why many advertisers view Sunday’s Super Bowl as a tipping point for traditional media and social media.

Old media: 30-some advertisers will air about 60 TV commercials, having spent up to $3 million per 30 seconds of ad time in the Fox telecast expected to be seen by more than 100 million.

New media: Advertisers’ social-networking lead-up and follow-up to their game ads are going non-stop on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more — on phones, computers and iPads.

Not that the ads will be the best ever. It may be that 2011 Super Bowl advertisers now are so focused on spreading the message across so many media channels that many forgot to focus on the content of the central message itself.

But if the famous “1984″ commercial for Apple ‘s Macintosh instantly changed the way Super Bowl ads were created, 2011′s game may be remembered for changing forever the way marketers expand their campaigns — via new media far beyond the ad they buy in the big Game.Who will win Ad Meter?

Visit admeter.usatoday.com on Sunday to view the ads and get the full results of USA TODAY’s Ad Meter. Ad Meter tracks the second-by-second responses of a panel of viewers to the ads during the Super Bowl and ranks them from best to worst.

“Welcome to the first Transmedia Bowl,” offers futurist Watts Wacker. “I wouldn’t be surprised to see Bud Light roving reporters in the stands, providing lucky fans with 15 seconds of fame through video feeds to their sites.”

Fox’s 30-second Super Bowl ad slots have been sold out since October — among the earliest sellouts ever. The ads may be old-style media, but even Groupon, the hotter-than-hot group coupon website that’s as new media as new media gets, has bought a slot to gain brand buzz.

“We know it’s ironic to use the offline world of Super Bowl advertising to build our brand,” says Rob Solomon, president of Groupon. “But we’ve done everything that you can do online.”

After some fits and starts in years past, marketers also seem to have figured out how to integrate new media into the Super Bowl effort. Instead of nudging viewers to static websites, they’ll steer them to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or smartphone and tablet apps, where folks can engage with the brands.

“It’s cosmically different, because it’s not just a TV experience, but a multichannel, multiplatform, deeply social experience,” says Shiv Singh, digital media chief at PepsiCo Americas Beverages, which, for the first time, has purchased an iPad-specific Super Bowl ad.

Think of it this way: nearly two-thirds of 18- to 34-year-olds planning to watch the Super Bowl have smartphones and intend to use them while watching the game, says Lightspeed Research. Of those, 59% will be sending e-mails or text messages about the game, while 18% will be checking out the ads online from their phones.

“This is the new water cooler,” says Ann Mukherjee, chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay. “People are not working at the office like they used to. Digital space is helping to re-create that human behavior of talking at the water cooler.”

As a result, most Super Bowl advertisers have spent months planning strategies. twenty years ago, strategy was about the TV ad itself. about a decade ago, the strategies began to be expanded to directing viewers to marketer websites for more information, games, etc.

Now, it’s all about using social media before the big Game to build brand buzz and attract viewers to watch a Super Bowl commercial, then using that spot to redirect viewers back to social media to talk about the brand and the message.Asking people to personalize, share

HomeAway, the online vacation-rental service, isn’t just running an ad in which a baby gets smushed against the wall in a crowded hotel room. It’s asking folks to upload family pictures in place of the baby’s picture on a special website, then share the pictures via Facebook or Twitter.

“We’ve taken personalization to a whole new level with this campaign,” says Brian Sharples, CEO.

A spot for the 20th Century Fox film Rio– featuring the angry birds from Rovio’s hit mobile game app, angry Birds– has an even more complicated intertwining of old and new media. The game ad will nudge viewers to pause the spot on their DVRs and watch it frame-by-frame to find an embedded code. The code gives access to a new level on the game app, where they then can enter a sweepstakes for a trip to Rio de Janeiro for the film’s premiere.

Then there’s Skechers.

“We hope to define this as the social Super Bowl,” says Leonard Armato, chief marketing officer.

Before the game, the shoe company has used Facebook and Twitter pages to tease folks with images — what Skechers calls “raw film” — from its Super Bowl ad shoot with a sultry Kardashian.

The ad is about heartbreak queen Kardashian, decked out in her Skechers, once again breaking someone’s heart. It’s Skechers’ second Super Bowl spot, and a long way from last year’s Joe Montana voice-over.

The ad will try to lure folks back to the Facebook page for yet more video outtakes from the ad shoot that will be posted after the game. Here, folks also will find a “customizable” ad of Kardashian — to be shared via Facebook — suggesting what the recipient of the ad needs to “break up” with, such as eating too many cheeseburgers.

The clincher: one person who posts the ad on his or her Facebook Wall will win a workout session with Kardashian.

Other outside-the-TV-box plans:

- Facebook mania.Anheuser-Busch has concocted a guessing game for its Bud Light brand that’s luring folks to the brand’s Facebook page before the game.

Two weeks before the Super Bowl, A-B posted screen grabs from its three Bud Light ads, encouraging consumers to guess what each ad is about. only those who figure out all three get special access to a “secret” Bud Light spot that others can’t see. The goal is to get Facebook users to share.

“People have to piece together the story,” says Gregg Billmeyer, vice president of premium lights at A-B. With about 1 million Bud Light Facebook fans, and with the typical consumer having about 100 Facebook friends, he says, “It becomes an exponential thing.”

- Post-game new media. For Audi, in its fourth Super Bowl, being in the game is as much about garnering attention for the brand after its 60-second spot airs as before or during the game.

So Audi is using Facebook and a Twitter hash tag in the ad this year to drive game viewers to tweet about the ad and check it out on Audi’s Facebook page. after airing of the spot, which contrasts old-fashioned luxury to hip new luxury, folks will be able to go to the Facebook page and “deconstruct” the ad frame-by-frame, says Scott Keogh, chief marketing officer.

The Facebook app will open to a “Luxury Estate Sale,” where consumers are urged to find examples of “old luxury” in the ad, says Keogh. The carmaker will randomly pick winners for prizes.

- Layers of multimedia. PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Doritos chip brand has built in layers of multimedia for this year’s Super Bowl that it’s never used before.

More than 21% of the brand chatter it received about its four consumer-created Super Bowl spots last year was via Twitter, says Mukherjee.

So this year’s “Crash the Super Bowl” consumer-made-ad contest is giving consumers the ability to share the videos on Twitter or Facebook.

Doritos also has created a Super Bowl YouTube channel for its finalists. “Instead of having to go to our website to play, we’re coming to your house to play,” explains Mukherjee.

The three ads that will air were picked from the finalists via consumer voting. and for the first time, votes could be cast via smartphones, which increased the number of votes 148%.

- IPad Bowl. PepsiCo’s Pepsi brand returns to the Super Bowl with ads for Pepsi Maxx after sitting on the sidelines last year to focus on its digitally based Pepsi Refresh Project. like Doritos, it will air three consumer-created spots.

If one of the Pepsi Maxx or Doritos spots wins the top slot in USA TODAY’s Ad Meter consumer rating of Super Bowl ads as they air in the game, the creators of the spot could win up to $2 million.

Pepsi also is eliciting consumer responses to its ads on Facebook.

Beyond that, says Singh, head of Pepsi’s digital, “We think we would be remiss if we didn’t have a marketing play around iPad.”

So, it purchased an interactive iPad ad on The Daily, a new, daily iPad newspaper created by News Corp. and Apple.

Why iPad? “IPad users are big trendsetters,” Singh says.

- Been there, done that. The undisputed champion of milking pre- and post-Super Bowl hype for consumer action is Go Daddy. It’s doing it again this year.

On its Facebook page, if you “like” GoDaddy.com, you get “fan-only content,” including behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of its always provocative Super Bowl spots. this year’s spots feature race car driver Danica Patrick and fitness guru Jillian Michaels for Web domain site GoDaddy.com and a GoDaddy.co Girl to be unveiled in a Super Bowl ad for the new GoDaddy.co site. on Twitter, Go Daddy fans are frantically guessing who the GoDaddy.co Girl is.

Year after year, Go Daddy has urged consumers to visit it online with the tease that they will see more there than its sexy ads can show on TV. and, every year, folks leave wanting more, a trick that predates new media.

“I have one goal every year,” says Go Daddy CEO Bob Parsons. “To be the lowest of the low.”

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Twitter’s international march keeps on going on and on: the popular microblogging service has just launcheda Korean-language version.

The Koreanversion of Twitter‘s first official day of operation was Wednesday, January, 19. to kick off, Twitter sent out a Korean-language-onlypress release and co-founder Evan Williams gavea press conference in Seoul. rather than using a specialized domainname, web users are expected to access the Hangul-alphabet Twitterthrough the primary Twitter.com portal.

In addition, the official Twitter Android and iPhone applications have been updated to ensure full Hangul-alphabet functionality.

Williams emphasized Twitter’s growth rates in Asia during his presentation. according to Kim Hyung-eun of the JoongAng Daily, theTwitter co-founder told assembled press and techies that “it’s only the beginning […] the Korean-language tweets havegrown even faster than tweets in general. We’ve seen over 3,400percent growth of Korean language tweets from January 2010 throughDecember.”

Twitter’s Korean expansion is also being accompanied by strategic partnerships with local firms. Partnership agreements have already been signed with popular web portal Daum and mobile carrier LG U+. according toJoongAng Daily, talks are underway with localweb portals NHN and SK as well as with national telephone monolithKorea Telecom.

In the pressrelease sent to the Korean market, Twitter emphasized the celebritiesand prominent businesspeople already using the service. Twitter hasalways had a robust presence in South Korea–users were previouslyable to enter messages in the Hangul alphabet even though there wasno actual official Korean-language portal.

Usersin the tech-crazy country have been able to use a wide variety ofKorean-language third party applications to use Twitter in the pastfor both computers and smartphones. in addition, multilingual Twitter applications such as TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop alsohave healthy followingsin South Korea.

However,Twitter faces a problem in their expansion into the Koreanmarket—South Korea already has rabidly popular social networkingsites of its own. Cyworld, the country’s most popular socialnetworking service (which also crashedand burned when it attempted to enter the American, Japanese, Taiwanese and Europeanmarkets), has nearly 25 million users in a country with a population of approximately 49 million. By comparison, Facebook only has 2.3 million Korean users.

Twitter has also played a tangential role in the South Korea-North Korea conflict. in August 2010, the North Korean government opened anofficial Twitter account–@uriminzok–that offers an intermittently updated stream of odes to the NorthKorean government, threats to the South and quotes from Kim Il Sungand Kim Jong Il. South Korea’s government quickly blocked access to the North Korean Twitter feed and claimed that it violated regulations on citizen communication with North Korean citizens.

NorthKorea’s Twitter account has not been updated since January 7, whenhackers broke in and posted a series of messages boasting about nuclear weapons spending and drinking parties in lavish villas, along with a call to overthrow the North Koreangovernment. Amazingly, thehacked messages remain on North Korea’s Twitter feed .No individuals or governments have yet taken responsibility for theattack on the North Korean Twitter account.

SouthKorea isn’t Twitter’s only international launch in 2011 either –Fast Company haspreviously reported that Twitteris launching an Arabic site in the coming months.

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