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Watching music videos has gone from something you watch on MTV to something you watch on YouTube. With YouTube you navigate to something specific you want to watch, but what happens after that? What if you want to watch other popular videos or just want to browse to other artists and genres? Enter JukeBo.

JukeBo aggregates videos from various sites like YouTube and organizes them by genre and artist, with some interesting genres like reggae, world, and country. There's even a section of the most-watched videos. You can submit videos or just watch what's already there adding your favorites to your Jukebo.

It's a nice organized way to spend some time watching videos. God knows you can't do it on MTV anymore.

Remember all of the hoopla over the shape of the Barbie doll? People would talk about the detriments to little girls' impressionable minds of having this perfection as an example of ideal body types. Well, it's gotten a whole lot worse in our electronic world.

Meet Mattel's Barbie Girls VIP. For $5.99 per month, your little princess can go into a very pink virtual world of Barbie glam, games, and shopping, teaching them all of life's important lessons about being beautiful, having lots of stuff, and getting VIP status handed to them on a silver platter.

Don't get me wrong. I'd be addicted to this as much as the next girl, and I think that's a big part of the problem. By buying girls this service, it's reinforcing the lack of imagination that often goes along with today's toys, not to mention the previous concerns about values. It's the first step in turning young brains to mush.  read more »

I keep a lot of things in my Amazon shopping cart because Amazon keeps me abreast of price changes every time I visit my shopping cart. Similarly, as site called Savvy Circle notifies users when something they've been watching goes on sale.

Savvy Circle offers three ways to add items to your shopping list. You can install a browser button that you push when you're on another supported store's product page. You can also install a button in your bookmarks. Lastly, you can simply add the item on the Savvy Circle site.  read more »

Tasteful nude modeling is getting legitimized as Zivity, a Silicon Valley startup, gets $7 million in VC funding. The site seeks to monetize model shots, spreading the love around to the photographers and models (the more popular your pictures are, the more money you get.)

One of the founders is a woman, Cyan Bannister, and whether you agree with the site or not, Cyan is an inspiration to all potential female entrepreneurs out there. Cyan is a fun chick and is rolling with the punches by posting pictures of herself on the site as well as doing some interesting publicity.  read more »

Ever wonder what kind of clothes you should wear for your body type? Maybe you need some inspiration to jazz up your wardrobe. Then check out Chictopia.

Remember that scene in Sex and the City when Carrie modeled her old clothes for Charlotte, Miranda, and, Samantha, and they said yay or nay for each outfit? Well, this site basically does the same. Think of it as you and your friends putting on a fashion show.  read more »

Disney.com is the latest company to make its content available online. After airing one of its movies on Wonderful World of Disney Saturday nights throughout the summer, Disney will stream the same movie the following week on its website. The schedule includes titles such as Pixar's Finding Nemo (now available through June 13) and Monsters Inc as well as the classic Peter Pan and live-action films like Freaky Friday and Princess Diaries 2. They also will be streaming a Disney Channel original film, Camp Rock, after airing it on the Disney Channel.

I went to Disney.com to see what the experience is like. The quality is high (not high enough to go full-screen well on my monitor, though), but the experience is definitely geared towards selling stuff to kids.  read more »

Getty Images, the world's largest provider of stock photos, unveiled a new flash mashup of its song, photo, and video library called Moodstream, and the content is controlled by your moods. Tell it whether you're happy or sad, calm or lively, humorous or serious, etc. and it will play a beautiful slideshow of photos and videos with great songs to go along with it.

Besides giving you something pleasant to look at and listen to, Getty has an ulterior motive, of course. You can easily find out more information about the media so that you can purchase any of the songs, photos or videos if you're moved to do so.  read more »

Ratings and reviews are all over the place on the web these days. Want to look at restaurant reviews? Go to Yelp. Product reviews? Check out Buzzillions. Hotel reviews? Trip Advisor. Employer reviews? Now there's Glassdoor.

Glassdoor is supposedly the "TripAdvisor" for the workplace. Before you take that new dream job, check out how other people have rated working at the company and also see how much they make. Of course, you're free to anonymously review your own company, provide your salary, and even give a little note to management. It's venting like never before.  read more »

Content delivery methods are evolving before our eyes. With DVR's, gone are the days that you had to be home Thursday night to watch Charmed. Even if you don't have a Tivo, content providers realize that they need to give more options for on-demand services.

A site called Hulu streams a ton of content when you want to watch it. They offer new episodes of primetime shows like The Office and Battlestar Galactica, and they just struck a deal to provide The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. They have a huge variety of classic shows like Fame, Chicago Hope, and Jerry O'Connell's fun time-travel show, Sliders. They even have movies like Fever Pitch and Sideways.

So how do they offer so much content? Well, it helps that they are NBC Universal and News Corp. Also, they add advertising although they claim that the amount is less than you'd see on TV, and it only happens during normal commercial breaks.  read more »

In our online world, we sometimes take security for granted. Sure, a lot of us know by now that we shouldn't click on links in suspicious emails or on pop-ups (best to block them altogether), but most of us trust well-known and reputable sites to keep us safe from all the bad people out there. Unfortunately, this is a false sense of security.

Wal-Mart.com was compromised last week. Visiting some of their pages resulted in a redirection to a malicious page that fed on unpatched versions of Adobe Flash. That means that if you went to Wal-Mart without the latest version of Flash, your computer could have been infected. Alarming, isn't it?

Attacks on well-known sites are getting more and more common due to the fact that there are automatic methods that thieves use to scan potential victims' source code looking for open doors.  read more »