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Brangelina kiss lands Paul Allen on TMZ

It's unusual for tech billionaires to wind up on gossip emporium TMZ.com, but Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made a cameo on the AOL-owned site Monday when he happened to be standing next to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's now-famous post-Super Bowl makeout.

All eyes are on the celebrity power couple--yes, even more than usual--because of widespread reports that they were on the verge of a breakup. At the Super Bowl, where the two were rooting for the victorious New Orleans Saints, they were engaged in some fairly evident damage control. And Paul Allen factors into it...somehow. … Read more

How to beat a social-networking-meets-celeb-dirt metaphor into the ground

I don't think you could quite say that Valleywag's Owen Thomas and I have started a meme yet, but we sure have been having fun with elaborate comparisons of Facebook to the tabloid phenomenon that is the Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie union. Unfortunately for the Web 2.0 history books, we both claim to have been the first to think of the analogy. But, as in the now-high-profile ConnectU vs. Facebook trial, there were no contracts signed and no paper trail created, so perhaps we'll never know for sure. Consequently, I believe that I gained the upper hand … Read more