Alyssa Milano Stalked, Zynga Sued, Coke Rumbles

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– Some dude really, really wants Alyssa Milano to follow him on Twitter.

– The nominees for the 2nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Advertising – which honor individuals and projects in advertising and marketing for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the LGBT community can be seen here.

– Mrs. Tom Cruise and the cast of The Romantics do J Crew.

– OMG! Author paid to tweet!

– And one for the ladies. Gabriel Aubry disrobes for Charisma Ad campaign.

– Zynga, maker of such popular Facebook applications as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, is being catching heat from the city of San Francisco for it’s Mafia Wars: Las Vegas guerrilla marketing campaign, which the city is labeling “sidewalk vandalism.”

– Angela Natividad takes a look behind the Guy Walks Across America thing for Levi’s.

– Coke Ireland has launched a new action adventure online game targeting Irish teens called Rumble Bug, developed by Coke’s digital partner in Ireland, Cybercom.

Here’s a Billy Mays-like infomercial for Ultimate Sack, a bean bag chair with innuendo.

– Chanel casts ‘plus-size’ model Crystal Renn for Soho campaign.

– The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) today announced the finalists in the sixth annual MIXX Awards.

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