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Lady Gaga is basically a lesson in iconography and yummy food for thought, as seen in the Lady Gaga cookies created by her “Little Monsters” during the North American leg of her “Fame Monster Ball Tour”.

Take a closer look below to see which Lady look inspired which Gaga goody:

If you could bake a Lady Gaga cookie of your own, which one of her infectious pop songs will be your muse?

Small businesses heart social media, according to data based on a telephone survey of 500 small business owners conducted by The University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business in December 2009.

The study examined the relationship between social media and small businesses, revealing that technology adoption rates in the U.S. have doubled in the past year from 12% to 24% when compared against a similar baseline study conducted in 2008.

That figure means roughly one in five small business owners are actively using social media in their business and increasingly investing in social media applications including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and blog platforms like WordPress.

In fact, 45% of surveyed respondents even believe their social media initiatives will pay off financially in 12 months or less.

As the graphic below details, small business owners using social media are primarily engaging in social media through company pages (75%) and status updates (69%) on Facebook or LinkedIn. On the flipside however, only small percentage of respondents — just 16% — reveal using Twitter to engage with their customers.

Whether or not social media can help small businesses on the lead generation front, it is identified as the primary motivating factor for engaging in social media. That’s why 61% are still putting in the long hours and making active efforts to identify new customers using social networks (or “customer service channels”) like Facebook or LinkedIn.

Even though Twitter announced that over 10 billion tweets have been sent to date, small businesses have yet to use it as a customer service channel, but thought leaders are still expecting it to become the next predominant platform for small business owners. As Yahoo, Altavista and other players in the search engine world have discovered, you can’t rest on your laurels forever, especially in the fast-paced world of social media.

If your small business has little or no social media presence, we invite you to check out Yellow Peril Media’s social media services and to contact us for a free consultation on how to leverage social media to organically grow your enterprise.

[Source: yellowperilmedia]

You do not mess with the Fierce Ghetto Bitch that is Naomi Campbell. Miodrag Mejdina, the limo driver who was allegedly attacked from behind by the supermodel, is now the one apologizing for getting angry and overreacting.

”I had an argument with Naomi Campbell. I got angry and overreacted. I regret involving the police,” said Miodrag via his lawyer. “This whole thing has been blown out of proportion and I apologize to Ms. Campbell for causing that to happen.”

Of course, being the DIVA that she is, Naomi issued a statement saying she was pleased with the apology.

“I have worked very hard on correcting my previous wrongdoings and I will not be held hostage to my past,” Naomi said. “I am pleased the driver has apologized. I would like to put the last few days behind me and move on.”

As a result, all charges will be dropped and our favorite abusive supermodel doesn’t have to look forward to doing community service sweeping floors and scrubbing toilets with the likes of Boy George. That means no more reoccurring nightmares involving cell phone attacks on personal assistants, maids, police offers, and up-and-coming models aged 15 and older — a win-win for the general public at large!

I bet Naomi had to swallow her pride and “donate” what she earned in an hour ($15,000 or more by some accounts) to Miodrag to shut him up…and have him issue an apology like a beleaguered Harry Whittington.

Remember him? Harry was the old man who was shot in the face by VP Dick Cheney, yet another unapologetic Fierce Ghetto Bitch who made his victim apologize for having the audacity to not “play dead” when attacked.

pop!vlog is proud to present part 1 of a 5 part interview with Parkour Legend Ryan Doyle conducted by Bullettrun.

Ryan is a member of WFPF (World Freerunning and Parkour Federation) and Airborn. In this interview, Ryan discusses his career, attitudes towards Parkour and Freerunning, the future of Parkour as an art form, and its evolving relationship with popular media.

We’ll be broadcasting all 5 parts of this interview here on pop!vlog this month. Subscribe today if you don’t want to miss a single word uttered by this Parkour Legend!

When I was younger in the late ’80s, I recall flipping through the pages of W before it was a magazine.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the post-party write-ups with boldfaced names and being hypnotized by the glamorous photos of High Society in New York, Palm Beach and their wacky royal cousins in Europe and South America.

Magazines like Vanity Fair and Quest usually filled in the gaps in the ’90s until SocialiteRank.com appeared on the scene and made it more fun to see my favorite members of High Society battle it out for column inches and photo captions. (Of course, New York Social Diary is The Bible!)

Since returning to NYC in 2004, I found it hard to avoid rubbing elbows with socialites like Tinsley Mortimer, Fabiola Beracasa, Zani Gugelmann, Bee Shaffer, Olivia Palermo, and Jules Darling Kirby at every Uptown and Downtown party or event. Sometimes we would exchange words, but most of the time I preferred to watch from the sidelines and take copious mental notes for future use (!).

Next week on the CW (March 10th to be exact), I’ll be watching HIGH SOCIETY, a new reality TV show that actually follows Tinsley — “Princess of Park Avenue” — as she navigates her way through NY High Society parties, benefits, fashion excursions and other rarefied things that socialites do, with her collection of misfits nearby, like Paul Johnson Calderon (So Bret Easton Ellis), Malik So Chic (So Leigh Bowery) and her sister Dabney Mercer (So…right…).

So far, one IT Girl has already stolen the show from Tinsley, and she’s Jules, who admitted on camera that she occasionally uses the “N-word”, yells at hotel staff, throws drinks in nightclubs, and doesn’t have many black, Jewish or gay friends. (That makes it 1 out of 3 in my case…so I should count myself as lucky.)

Like Jules, I would’ve missed the premiere of my reality TV show too if the editing portrayed me as “bat-shit crazy”…especially when I’m much, much, much more “down to earth” in person.

Throughout the show’s run, I plan on broadcasting post-show commentary and sharing world exclusive interviews with some of the HIGH SOCIETY stars, so be sure to subscribe today to pop!talk if you don’t want to miss out on what really happened behind the shenanigans!