It’s a busy week. Monday was the start of the Chinese new year as the year of the dragon. Sundance continues through the 29th. Stamps went up to 45 cents, adding $888 million in annual revenue for the U.S. Postal Service. And you no longer have to be dead for 5 years to grace a postage stamp. Finally, the annual meeting of gods, i.e., the World Economic Forum in Davos, kicks off today.  Here’s your weekly round-up…

• Davos participants are heftier than ever: 40 heads of state, and 18 of the world’s central bankers. So some think it is befitting that Tibco will be launching its super elite social network for the top 200 world leaders, “TopCom“. (Will they check their Klout score?)
• Samantha Boardman Rosen speaks on the Power of Color for Tory Burch’s blog.
• Retailer for the masses Target continues to roll out new collaborations. Dita von Teese is launching a lingerie line for Target next month in Australia. Jason Wu’s collection will be on sale from Fabruary 5th to March 6th. See this teaser video.
• Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is starting a daytime talk show - now available for licensing at your local cable network.
• Soccer hunk David Beckham showed up at Google headquarters for an interview and Google+ Hangout. He talked about his work for UNICEF, his new bodywear collection for H&M (which will hit stores on Feb. 2nd and star in the Superbowl ad race). The video of the Hangout is here,
• Twitter Item of the Week: Marie Claire Fashion Director Nina Garcia tweets “Very interesting! RT @TheNextWeb How the Fashion Industry Is Embracing Social Media“.
• Happy birthday TODAY to Laura Henson and Allison Weiss Brady. THIS FRIDAY is Patrick Killian’s birthday, and Saturday, Matthew Mellon. NEXT WEEK: Wish a happy birthday to Roy Kean on Monday, and to Louis Dubin on Tuesday.
• Upcoming events: It’s the Winter Antiques Show Young Collectors Night on January 26th at the Park Avenue Armory. Next week, Tia Walker headlines a “Red Carpet Style for Every Woman” event on January 31st. See our events page for details on these events and more! (Want to see your event featured here? Email us at info@famegame.com.)

The Transportation Security Administration has announced that it collected nearly $47,000 in loose change at JFK airport last year, mostly from people rushing through security. That’s a heckuva lot of change - just wondering if there are any lost wallets in there, or perhaps abandoned contraband currency aka undeclared cash of foreigners entering the U.S.? There must be some Russian billionaires trying to bring suitcases of cash in to buy their daughters penthouse apartments, n’est-ce-pas? Here’s your weekly round-up…

• Vivre founder Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti prefers to keep to herself when flying, and her secret airport vice is buying trashy magazines.
• Hotelier Vikram Chatwal designed his Soho pad drawing inspiration from his 150-foot yacht Fathom, as featured in the Wall Street Journal.
• Glamactress Sofia Vergara’s boyfriend Nick Loeb is the proud creator of “Loeb’s Onion Crunch“, a crispy topping for hamburgers and hot dogs. Sold in 3,000 stores and soon launching at Costco, Internet sales spiked ten-fold when People Magazine reported it was Sofia’s favorite topping.
• Lots of books to mention this week: Already out: Simon Doonan’s “Gay Men Don’t Get Fat“, Derek Blasberg’s “Very Classy” (and don’t miss Derek’s cool website). Coming soon: Isabel Toledo’s “Roots of Style” (March 2012) and Tinsley Mortimer’s “Southern Charm” (May 2012).
• Former Real Housewife Kelly Killoren Bensimon is rumored to be working on her own TV show based on her new book “I Can Make You Hot” (due out in April 2012).
• Author Jay McInerney isn’t on our new book release list, but he did relaunch his web site last week. Check it out.
• Twitter Item of the Week: Actor Ashton Kutcher tells his twitter hacker that he knows where he lives and “I’m coming for you my friend“.
• Happy birthday THIS FRIDAY to BFA photographer Neil Rasmus!!!
• Upcoming events: Hale House kicks off an active 2012 social calendar on January 23rd with their Winter Fete 2012 at Crown. See our events page for details on events for the new year!

Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary, a decisive victory for the presidential nominee. No thanks to his rivals piling on him during Sunday’s debate, but he did it. We are intrigued by his campaign committee, most notably his FIVE sons. Did you know that? And the New York Times ran a very GQ-esque photo of four of them last week: Matt, Josh, Craig, and Tagg. (Remind you of anyone’s else’s son’s name?) Here’s your weekly round-up…

• Vogue editrix Anna Wintour is jumping on the Obama bandwagon and has recruited 22 designers for the “Runway to Win“. The designers will design items to benefit the Obama Victory Fund, and Wintour will also host a fundraiser in February. Some companies found the effort to be too partisan political for their blood.
• New parents Jay-Z and Beyonce have finally left the room. The hospital room, that is. After much uproar, Beyonce and her new baby girl Blue Ivy Carter were released from Lenox Hill. No word on who will get to use the wing that underwent pricey renovations next. Beyonce’s room even had a bulletproof door.
• Nina Griscom tells of a magical New Year’s Eve for New York Social Diary as the guest of Frances Schultz and Tom Dittmer at Rancho La Zaca .
• Twitter Item of the Week: Actor Alec Baldwin made his return to Twitter after going dark last month following an American Airlines incident. This weekend, he dispensed advice such as “Buy Oneida flatware.“
• Happy birthday TOMORROW to Bonnie Pfeifer Evans. THIS FRIDAY to author Jay McInerney. MONDAY is the birthday of fashion designer Christian Cota, aSmallWorld’s Erik Wachtmeister, interior designer Laura Hunt, and former Page Six editor Richard Johnson.
• See our events page for details on events for the new year!

Happy New Year! Hope you rang in the new year with bells on your toes and have long nursed any hangovers away. If you haven’t, then get your hands on some Blowfish, as featured in the New York Times. Gotta hand it to the founder of Blowfish, Brenna Haysom. And we’ll be watching to see If she turns her business plan into a booming business. Here’s your first 2012 weekly round-up…

• A goodie recap: The 75 Things New Yorkers Talked About in 2011. And Fame Game’s own recap of Top Trends and Movers and Shakers from 2011. And The Observer predicts the Most Annoying Celebrities of 2012.
• Kissing Lady Gaga was no great shakes, according to Mayor Bloomberg.
• Starbucks and the New York Times raised their prices. How will we afford our morning addictions? (There is always amNewYork, certainly a great free read.)
• Anchorwoman Ann Curry gets colorful and wears Lisa Perry on the air.
• Twitter Item of the Week: Only Richard Branson would tweet about taking a photo of the moon above Necker to decide where to put the @VirginGalactic hotel!
• Happy birthday TOMORROW to Annie Sutton Falk and Amanda Hearst. THIS FRIDAY to former NYCB dancer Charles Askegard. On Sunday, business mogul Ted Leonsis, and Zack Bacon share a birthday. NEXT WEEK: Monday is Annelise Peterson’s birthday, and Tuesday, Mia Matthews and Barbara Dixon.
• See our events page for details on events for the new year!

Fame Game Reveals Top Content and Search Trends of 2011

Here’s your yearly round-up of Fame Game news!

Fashionistas, socialites, philanthropists, magazine editors, politicians and business moguls are among the overall top searched content on FameGame, but it was the wife of Dr. Mehmet Oz, Lisa Oz, who grabbed the top spot.

“The names that people are searching for on Google, and landing on their Fame Game profiles, are always an interesting barometer of what is on people’s minds,” said Tatiana Platt, a founder of Fame Game. “There was a wide range of industries reflected in this year’s results, but yet another member of the cast of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New York City“ made it on the Top 10 list: Aviva Drescher.”

Fame Game is able to measure and analyze the overall attention of people, organizations, and parties in three different ways: through the use of its proprietary algorithm which takes into account public media, news and editorial mentions, user generated content, and attention on Fame Game (”Attention score”), through the internal search queries users are making on the site (”Search trends”), and through the individual profiles receiving the largest volume of web traffic on Fame Game (”Most Visited Profiles.”) Learn more about the algorithm and ranking system by visiting the about page.

Fame Game also announced a new list of Top 10 Palm Beach Movers and Shakers in light of its recent partnership with Lucien Capehart Photography, the premier society photographer of Palm Beach.

Highlights from this year’s top content include:

Fame Game’s Top Search Profiles of 2011

#1 Lisa Oz

#2 Carin Besser

#3 Jorn Weisbrodt

#4 Alejandro Santo Domingo

#5 Laurie Durning

#6 Kimberly Guilfoyle

#7 Lizzie Tisch

#8 Paige Bluhdorn

#9 Shala Monroque

#10 Aviva Drescher

Fame Game’s Top 10 Palm Beach Movers and Shakers 2011

#1 Petra Levin

#2 David Koch

#3 Carol Mack

#4 Thomas Quick

#5 Annie Falk

#6 Karin Luter

#7 Lois Pope

#8 Michele Kessler

#9 Talbott Maxey

#10 Mary Freitas

Fame Game’s Top 10 Best Dressed Movers and Shakers 2011

#1 Alexandra Lebenthal
#2 Bonnie Pfeifer Evans
#3 Yaz Hernandez
#4 Euan Rellie
#5 Jason Binn
#6 Julie Macklowe
#7 Derek Blasberg
#8 Stacey Bendet
#9 Zani Gugelmann
#10 Nacho Figueras

Go here for more news about 2011 Fame Game trends! See you next year!

Fame Game (www.famegame.com) is an entertainment network that tracks the most visible members of the cultural landscape; currently the site maintains 200,000 public-facing ’social network’ profiles for influential individuals and organizations based on event photography, news mentions, user generated content, and other offline and online data. Fame Game leverages the content, cultural data, and attention of these individuals and organizations to make high premium PR campaigns thrive online.  

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Happy Holidays! Here’s your weekly round-up..

• WWD calls Hearst’s Michael Clinton the Billion Dollar Man.
• Photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin have a new book out, “Pretty Much Everything” (a great Christmas present, by the way). Pregnant Julia Restoin-Roitfeld didn’t let her baby bump keep her away from a celebration party.
• Gilt Groupe founder Alexis Maybank is pregnant too and was seen at the FEED-Raiser and Market.
• “9 by Design”’s Novogratz family is the latest in a run of First Republic Bank ad testimonials.
• Twitter Item of the Week: Lady Gaga’s Twitter account was hacked and 17 million followers were offered free ipads.
• Happy birthday THIS FRIDAY to PR Mover & Shaker Alison Brod, and The Verge’s Jim Bankoff. NEXT WEEK: Monday is Holly Doran’s birthday, and Tuesday Christina Oxenberg.
• Happy Hannukah and Merry Christmas to all. See our events page for details on events for the new year!

The new Town & Country hit newstands with Shala Monroque on the cover. Who, you ask? Shala is the new it-girl according to T&C. The web is aflutter with vitriol about whether she deserves such a moniker, and the magazine chalks up her failure to discuss her relationship with Larry Gagosian to “it-girl discretion”. Is that like Breakfast-at-Tiffany’s elegance for 2012? She apparently has a blog too. Here’s your weekly round-up…      

• She’s got great press - Lauren Remington Platt’s Vensette continues to get glowing coverage, making the cover of the New York Times Style section, along with Julie Macklowe and her new beauty business venture.
• Ashley Bush (Lauren Bush Lauren’s sis) had been working for Anderson Cooper’s daytime talk show, but now she has resigned.
• Former Avenue Editor Peter Davis is starting a new magazine with Julie Dannenberg and Cricket Burns, along with Jared Kushner’s Observer Media Group.
• Photographer Harry Benson and Hilary Geary Ross are making the rounds with book parties galore for the “New York, New York” book of portraits of the most interesting Manhattanites. Are you in it?
• Night life impresario Sean MacPherson manages to find time to celebrate his new restaurant, even with the arrival of a new baby at home.
• Twitter Item of the Week: In the wake of being kicked off an American Airlines flight, prolific tweeter Alec Baldwin has left Twitter altogether.
• Happy birthday TODAY to Fred Bontecou! THIS FRIDAY is bella Francesca Vittoria’s birthday, and wish a happy birthday to Melissa Morris on Sunday. NEXT WEEK: Monday is New Yorker for Children’s glamorous ambassador Dayssi Olarte de Kanavos‘ birthday.
• Upcoming event highlights: Find time in between all the many holiday cocktail parties to make these few events! TONIGHT: Stop by Urban Zen for the 4th Annual Holiday FEED-raiser and Market. NEXT WEEK: Monday is the 7th Annual Toys for Dogs benefiting the Humane Society of New York, hosted by Wendy Diamond. And MoMA hosts the Junior Associates Annual Holiday Party. See our events page for details on these and other events.    

Did you hear about the mind-boggling crash of 8 Ferraris, a Lamborgini and 3 Mercedes sports cars on a highway in Japan? News agencies from around the world are covering the car tsunami, which had us wondering whether it is that commonplace in Japan for so many expensive sports cars to be in one place at once. (Are they that rich?) Turns out it was an excursion of luxury automobile enthusiasts speeding at 85 to 100 miles per hour. Go here to see a video of the pileup.. Here’s your weekly round-up…  

• The new Pirelli calendar is out, but good luck getting your hands on it.
• Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson will be writing a personal check to the 92nd Street Y for several million dollars.
• There’s going to be a new art commerce website in town: Art.sy. Founded by Carter Cleveland, Wendi Murdoch and Dasha Zhukova, the site was celebrated at Soho Beach House Miami.
• Kelly Killoren Bensimon is on the cover of this month’s Avenue magazine with a super steamy photo shoot inside.
• SATC authoress Candace Bushnell is getting divorced from her dancer husband Charles Askegard.
• Jill Fairchild is now a contributing style editor at What2WearWhere.
• Twitter Item of the Week: Bravo’s Andy Cohen wants to host the next GOP debate.
• Happy birthday TOMORROW to Dusty Pearsall! THIS FRIDAY is Chappy Morris‘ big day, and wish a happy birthday to Holidae Hayes on Saturday. NEXT WEEK: Monday is Peter Davis‘ birthday.
• Upcoming event highlights: TONIGHT: Don’t miss the 16th Annual ACRIA Holiday Dinner hosted by Donna Karan. TOMORROW night is Glamourpuss Girls Night Out hosted by Gigi Mortimer and Courtney Moss. FRIDAY is the always wintry glamourous New York Botanical Garden’s Winter Wonderland Ball. NEXT WEEK: Monday is the Dubin Breast Cancer Inaugural Benefit and the Charity Water Ball. And Tuesday is Life & Style Magazine’s Holiday Party hosted by Countess Luann de Lesseps. See our events page for details on these and other events.    

Three Greenwich money managers just won the $254 million Powerball jackpot from a $1 ticket purchased at a gas station. The trio plans to give some of the proceeds to charity, but how ironic is it that people who manage money for a living bother to even play the lottery? Or are they really a front for the real Powerball winner? Guess we all should take a chance now and then. Oh, and the gas station gets $100,000 for selling the winning ticket. Here’s your weekly round-up…     

• Salman Rushdie and Social Life Magazine’s Devorah Rose are actually not involved says the author.
• Remy Stern is out at Gawker. The new editor is A.J. Daulerio.
• Ted-ster Cindy Gallop is a global woman with gusto.
• Alex Kramer gets the new designer spotlight on WWD in her quest for the perfect T-shirt.
• Tory Burch sells more of her merchandise online than in any one of her boutiques and she credits digital marketing for fueling her label’s expansion.
• Former RHONY Cindy Barshop is closing some of her spas. Speaking of housewives, Oxygen will be taking on Bravo with a new show of its own featuring five New York women.
• Twitter Item of the Week: Hockey great Wayne Gretzky gets his daughter to stop tweeting, especially those suggestive photos of hers.
• Happy birthday TODAY to Carter Pottash and Jill Zarin. TOMORROW is SATC authoress Candace Bushnell’s birthday. THIS FRIDAY is Joanne Cassullo’s big day, and wish a happy birthday to Lucy Sykes Rellie on Sunday!
• Upcoming event highlights: Enjoy Art Basel!!! and for those not in Miami… TONIGHT: Celebrate the neighborhood with Milly and Lenox Neighborhood House. TOMORROW: Vanessa Noel celebrates the Oceans for her Holiday Party. NEXT WEEK: On Tuesday, don’t miss the Swarovski Elements Vase Unveiling. See our events page for details on these and other events.    

Today, President Obama pardons a Thanksgiving turkey. And he will not only pardon one turkey, but also his alternate. Then, they will be taken to George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate where they will be on display through January 6th. Yup, going to see the pardoned turkeys, both of them, is a national attraction! Well Happy Thanksgiving to everyone everywhere! Here’s your weekly round-up…   

• Barneys and Lady Gaga have teamed up to create “Gaga’s Workshop” which will feature fantastical shop windows and installations. Think Santa’s Workshop with elves decked out in raw meat.
• Muffie Potter Aston tried to give up the “Muffie” life, until her daughters entered first grade and then she inched back into her social life.
• Some people are calling NBC the “Nepotism Broadcasting Company” for its hiring of Chelsea Clinton and think the 99% should have been given a chance.
• Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is marrying his longtime love Laurie Durning.
• Did you know that Bradley Cooper speaks French? Watch him order an omelet and ask someout out here.
• Are you a V.I.P.? Check out your Klout score, and your Fame Game score! It may give you access to events that you otherwise wouldn’t be deemed worthy to be invited to. Alison Brod agrees, and so does Jason Binn.
• Happy birthday TODAY to editrix Deborah Needleman. THIS FRIDAY is RHONY Sonja Morgan’s birthday. NEXT WEEK. Wish a happy birthday to Michelle Barish on Monday!
• Upcoming event highlights: THIS WEEKEND: Lots of events going on in get-away destination Palm Beach. On Friday, Douglas Hannant opens his new boutique on Worth Avenue. On Saturday, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach hosts a cocktail party for “New York, New York“, hosted by Hilary Geary Ross. NEXT WEEK: Back in NYC, Calvin Klein hosts the Launch of Americans for Marriage Equality on Monday. And Tuesday is the Architectural Digest AD 100 Gala at the Guggenheim Museum hosted by Conde Nast. Also on Tuesday, in Miami, the W Hotel and Soho House launch kick off parties for Art Basel, which runs Dec. 1st through 4th. See our events page for details on these and other events.