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Celebs list their favorite hangouts on Microsoft mashup

Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
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at the Gawker Stalker celebrity map mashup Web site, but other stars don't mind being spotted and are even helping create mashups of where they can be found. Microsoft launched a CelebFavorites.com mashup Web site on Thursday that pinpoints the restaurants, stores and other spots eight celebrities list as being among their favorites.

For instance, actress Brittany Murphy waxes poetic about her home state of New Jersey: "If you don't have the time or the resources to travel the world, then come to New Jersey. It's is a microcosm of the world. New Jersey has EVERYTHING, and it has my family and my heart. I am a Jersey girl through and through," she writes. Her blurb accompanies a list of her favorite spots in her hometown of Edison, N.J.--among them are Tastee Subs and the Jersey Shore.

Russian tennis heartthrob Anna Kournikova says she can't imagine living anywhere but Miami. Her list shows that she shops at stores called "Rebel" and "Wild Oats." And actor Jeff Bridges talks about the beauty of Santa Barbara, Calif. "I love the fact that when you look out to the ocean you're not looking West, but South," he writes. "This causes everything to look and feel different than Los Angeles, which is just an hour away."