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You can now surf Zimbio on your Skyfire-enabled phone. The folks at Skyfire were kind enough to give Zimbio a test drive to make sure that all of our content and features are accessible through their mobile browser. Everything is A-OK! Skyfire is a free downloadable browser that currently runs on Windows Mobile and Symbian platforms. To give it a try, you'll need a Windows Mobile (5 or 6), or a Nokia N or E Series S60 (3rd Edition) phone. You also need to be in either the USA or Canada... Read Full Story

SILICON VALLEY, CA -- December 19, 2008 -- When David Bowie started wearing white suits again, the fashion world took notice and white suits hit the runways in Milan seemingly overnight. When Janie Bryant , award-winning costume designer, so stylishly decked out the cast of HBO's Deadwood , it inspired Vera Wang 's 2006 spring line ( Michael Kors and Prada also cite Bryant's work on Mad Men as influence for their 2008 fall collection and resort line, respectively). And you can almost trace... Read Full Story

Zimbio now reaches an even wider audience. According to Google Analytics, over 6,000,000 unique visitors came to Zimbio in July 2008. In July, some of the most popular stories included the Cynthia Rodriguez vs A-Rod battle, Dara Torres qualifying for the Olympics, and comparisons of celebrity hairstyles . August is already off to a great start with a lot of interest in the John Edwards story , the mysterious " Monster of Montauk ", and of course the 2008 Summer Olympics . Cheers, Tony and... Read Full Story

Zimbio keeps on growing. According to Google Analytics, over 3,000,000 unique visitors came to Zimbio in December 2007. Many thanks to all of the Zimbio editors and bloggers who have been writing thousands of articles each day. A bunch of new zines popped in December. Last month, we read about ladies golfer Anna Rawson making the LPGA , the latest XBox release for Halo 3 , new long layered hairstyles , Britney's little sister Jamie Lynn Spears , the latest scandals including news anchor... Read Full Story

Michelle McGiboney at Nielsen Online named Zimbio as one of the fastest growing community destinations for February 2009.  It's always nice to be in good company... with Twitter , Facebook , Multiply , and Wikia . Hats off to Twitter...wow. Here's the link to Michelle's post . Read Full Story

We’re excited to announce that John Newlin has joined Zimbio as our first Editor in Chief. John will oversee editorial content and community contributions on Zimbio. John and his team will feature the very best reads across the Zimbio network… no small job now that more than 10,000 volunteer writers are actively posting on the site. Prior to joining us, John was Editor-in-Chief at The Wave Magazine. The Wave is a pop-culture magazine, covering movies, music, nightlife, art, dining, travel... Read Full Story

We recently released a new feature that let's you sign up for an email alert whenever Zimbio gets new pictures of your favorite celebrities, athletes, or politicians. We consolidate the alerts into one email so you won't get more than one from us on any given day. Here is how you can give it a try (don't worry, no spam, we promise ): 1. Check out the Zimbio Pictures section and pick the person you'd like to track. Some of the popular celebs so far include: - Kim Kardashian , Hollywood party... Read Full Story

At roughly 5am PST yesterday morning, Zimbio suffered a site outage due to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.  As a result of the ongoing attack, the site experienced intermittent and full outages throughout the day.  The site is currently stable, but you may experience periodic sluggishness and other performance issues as we continue to recover. Read Full Story

BOSS (build your own search service) is Yahoo's new "open search" service - and it's pretty cool. We just rolled out a new and improved search experience on Zimbio using the Yahoo API. Give it a try by searching for " Red Carpet Fashion " or " Rihanna " or " NASCAR ". Many thanks to the folks at Y! Cheers, Tony Read Full Story

There’s been some curiosity around our celebrity interviews. How do we get them? Who does them? Who else are we interviewing? Can we put them in touch with Cameron Diaz? Many of our interviews are conducted by a red carpet lothario named Fred Topel. Fred lives in Los Angeles and is the darling of the Hollywood publicity machine. He’s also a really good guy. So he does many of our celebrity interviews at either the Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton or some other swank hotel. Occasionally, he’ll fly... Read Full Story