So we were able to convince our good friends over at Schmoozd that our members are just too cool to pay the ticket price to attend their March 25th event @ Wokcano, Santa Monica and not surprisingly — they agreed!!

Join us in if you are in the LA area for a Schmoozd event, with, ahem, complimentary drinks by Media Temple, from 6PM - 10PM. 

MEMBERS can send a private message to Editrix Gina Mom on SmakNews.com or tweet her @smaknews for the “password” that’ll waive your ticket price for this event.

Oh, and we’ll also be doing some fabulous give-aways and announcements at the event for early arriving guests.

See you all there!

We have a lot to be thankful for this year, but if we had to keep it short and sum it up at the dinner table, here are the top few reasons — as of late — that sticks out most to us.

We are simply most thankful for…

1. The girls of Powder Room Talk

The lady owners of a “cyber (powder) room chat” blog are fierce and fiesty when it comes to submitting some scandalous (as in, juicy - not trashy) content all over SmakNews.  We especially thank you ladies for writing about: How Women Should NOT Pay On The First Date, Why We Love Bitches, Why We ALSO Like Porn And Threesomes, and whether we feel the BULGE is hot or not.

2. Josh Stomel, Chief Strategist of SmakNews

Founder of ResumeBucket.com and NeoHire.com, Josh just loves two-named start ups to be apart of it seems, and we are more than lucky to have one of  THE most connected (and quite buff, too) guy from the west side on our team. Catch him on the fly talking smak and be sure to ask him what “meat gazing” really means.

3. The wonderful ladies blog known as YourTango

We know it’s not just us who find something just awe-strucking awesome about YourTango.com, we just simply can’t put our finger on it. We’re thinking it could have something to do with the ridiculous relationship spoof known as the Spat Solver… or because this foreign guy teaching us how to make a sex video sounds pretty hot.

4. Twitter

Twitter has continued to give us SO MANY reasons to be thankful for. Not only did we ring in our 5,000th update to an amazing set of 40,000- something followers, but we have gotten to meet up “IRL” (in real life) with some outstanding characters at the #140conf, then we were able to co- host our first local Tweetup with this one particular social media ho, and we somehow got the extremely beautiful Alyssa Milano to Re-Tweet our story!

Oh Twitter, you make eating turkey this Thanksgiving so hard…

5.  Zedd Malam, CTO of SmakNews

The genius science and engineering of SmakNews is all due to this overly-worked man in the Ukraine. Zedd, we are thankful for you. And we are thankful for Zedd’s understanding girlfriend too for allowing us to keep him up with sleepless nights. If you were here, you’d both get a piece of our pumpkin pie!

6. Chelsea Talks Smak, contributing writer

Chelsea is a natural at “talking smak” — just look at her blog – it’s even in the title BEFORE we hired her! Therefore when coming on board to the team just earlier this month, we couldn’t be happier to be so fortunate in having her on our team, producing some very viral articles such as this month’s biggest hit: The Top 10 Hottest Men To Follow On Twitter, which even Comedy Central decided to link to…

7. Lindsay Lohan, best supplier of smak-able content … OF ALL TIME!

We secretly love and thank the birth of Lindsay Lohan onto this world. Without her antics, her whacked out family members (a Dad that records every private conversation, an almost equally awful Mom, a geriatric dressed Sister), and her on-going drama with whether she’s a lesbian or whether she killed Heath Ledger or not, we just want to be most thankful to Lindsay for always making our job SO much easier.

Now it’s been lovely taking our time out to thank those that really matter to us, but our turkey is waiting for us — and just like Lindsay, we sympathize with cutting just about anything cold turkey now…

Happy Thanksgiving.

So still getting used to seeing my face in a freeze-frame off YouTube, but for the most part the message is laid out visually for your eyes and ears to see & hear…

If you haven’t yet heeded my “Happy Labor Day” weekend greeting, well here it is up above via video. Also, reiterating our lovely widget with the code: here. Get it and get more traffic now.

And now for a fun competition with a fun(ny) video, watch:

That’s right everyone, I’m taking $100 out of my wallet and handing it straight to you - along with some generous items from e.l.f. cosmetics - and all you have to do is show SmakNews some love in a YouTube or .avi fashion through our Facebook page. 

Only video entries are accepted. It can be as short, funny, sexy, or goofy as you want. You must post it on our Facebook wall for now… We’ll aggregate the best videos for our “board” of judges and users to “talk smak” on and select the winner(s) ~ yes, there could be more than one! The video must have a mention for “SmakNews” in any way, shape, or form (silent movies can also apply, or subtitles, or elaborate effects by way of extensive film school training too, why not?) 

Runner-ups will receive not just one but three (3) e.l.f. cosmetics items to use, re-gift, or barter with your sister/girlfriend for … but the winner will of course be getting all that plus 100 dollars.

For questions on rules, tweet, email, or send us a message on Facebook. Good luck!

Being a very young start-up, we realize that we would be nothing without our users giving back to us. Whether it be in the form of smak-talks, constantly tweeting us feedback, or submitting stories –links, editorials, and/or questions– all of the amazing activity created on SmakNews is not just due to the founders or the staff hard at work, it’s mainly due to the great users who are just as vital to our growth as anything.

Here are the top 16 users who have shined recently at SmakNews. Don’t worry, we’ll be updating this and will surely be adding to it as we go along…

1. NicoKitten

Known to have submitted some very popular links as well as having penned some of her own sexy tips, @NicoKitten is a fresh, young vibrant contributor whose only bound to turn any story found on the web sizzling “hot.”

2. Christinafs

An adorable smak-talkkin’ student, Christina’s positive comments are always indicative that she’s not only having a good time at SmakNews.com, she’s just having a good time period.

3. HaveUHeard

VonDay, owner of HaveUHeard.net, smaks some great celebrity gossip articles daily, frequently, and timely too. In case you haven’t heard, you are hearing it right now on SmakNews thanks to this awesome user.

4. Gomar

A veteran Smak-talker, Margo exemplifies the busy American woman who does everything- blogs, tweets, smaks, and even takes care of some teenaged girls! How does she find the time to do it all? And can she please keep on doing it?

5. FiveAlive

Hiding behind that cute little avatar is one of the busiest smakkers we have! Recently joined, “fivealive” seems to be grabbing some great content and flipping them for “hot” status in five seconds flat, no joke! (But slightly exaggerated, yes.)

6. GDavisms

Publisher Gloria Davis may look like a quiet gal from Jackson, Mississippi but she’s bringing many of  her stories from her blog straight to SmakNews.

7. MissDestructo

We feel @MissDestructo’s beautiful blue hair adds some complementing tones to the layout of SmakNews, don’t you? A personal tweet-heart, Amber’s additions from her blog or just abundance in Smak-thusiam is always appreciated.

8. ElsiesBlogs

Not only does Vanessa’s avatar please a couple of male visitors, her breaking stories has garnered interesting smak-talks, especially this one involving President Obama.

9. CoutureInTheCity

What’s a women’s fashion news site without a bit of “Couture”, put that Couture in the City and you have a perfectly mixed cocktail waiting. Angelique knows fashion, and she knows it well enough to “talk smak” in the most fabulous of ways. Here.

* Want to be just as “in” as our trend-setting friends up there? Introducing the latest fashion icon on the web– a “Talk Smak” button that you can add right on your blog/website to make it easier, friendlier, and just more stylish in talking smak… Details to come on the code for this cute little button.*

10. AnthonyMark

Mr. AnthonyMark is just a wonderful smak-talker via Twitter and once actually on here and without the 140 character limit constraints, he lets loose and gets lavish with his insightful thoughts. Who doesn’t love an opinionated man once in awhile?

11. RowenaCherry

@rowenacherry is an author with a goal: give good value. And we are so happy that SmakNews is one of the mediums chosen in giving off such great value!

12. WereCatf

This user from Finland packs a powerful smak-talk on all sorts of stories, and despite what her profile states, you’re wrong - we do read everything. And we enjoy it very much so.

13. YourTango

Serving news straight up from YourTango.com, each and every link submitted has gotten Hot already– how’s that for a good batting, err… smak-submitting average?

14. SDL

Barry is the founder and editor of SingleDadLife.com, and just because most men would view posting on here as an uphill battle, we salute him (as well as all men, too)!

15. JennyFromTheBlog

Jenny has also been with us since the start (April) and here and now she makes an appearance to share some interesting stories from her witty womanly blog.

16. YosefSolomon

Yosef may be brand new but already he seems to have a handle on submitting the right kind of news stories and talking smak-back to the ladies. We’ll be looking forward to some more smak out of you.

Whew, that was quite a long list, but you know what, I wouldn’t mind at all if it had to be longer. Thank you so very much to our fantastic users… whether you’re mentioned here, or you just happen to quietly read without smakking back, I have nothing but appreciation and gratitude for you.

Yours truly,

Gina Mom
Chief Editrix of a lovely thing that made “it” on the web- thanks to you.

Have a great weekend.

We’ve been keeping rather busy at SmakNews since the last time you so graciously landed here on our blog.

Our beauty give-away went well but luckily the kind people at ELF generously gave and so we still have some more! Anybody still interested for some new cool make-up can just leave us a comment here with your sweepstakes submission.

Still growing every day by the minute, tweet, visit, and membership, we are monitoring the heightened activity of SmakNews like a mom records her baby’s weight changes. Having outgrown our infantile stage past 3 months now, we are excited to move on to bigger and better pairs of toddler shoes that’ll bring us many steps closer to true awesomeness.

The last month we have seen some surging successes in our Editorials’ department. Although we are still seeing tons of interesting links being shared in the standard social news way, we are proud that members and readers are becoming just as thrilled to see our open blogging platform be utilized to express some thoughts and collect some interesting smak talks.

Here are some articles that have gotten some Smakkin’ hot attention lately:

Top 5 Weird Aphrodisiacs That Don’t Make Any Sense Cause there are some aphrodisiacs that do make sense, but these aren’t it.

Divorced and Detached? Let Cut’s The Cake! Any excuse to eat cake is a good excuse to take.

Who Are You Calling Crazy? Oh, These Women. Normally in the name of fashion we are permitted some “crazy” passes, but these call for the insanity police more than the fashion police.

Chew On This: Semen Recipe Cookbook. Yes, you read it right, semen.

The Most Beautiful Tranny In The World, And Other Terribly Weird Beauty Pageants Little Miss Sunshine? Try Little Miss Legless Landmine.

Are You Going Goo-Goo For GaGa’s Fugly Fashion Sense? Or… are you just gagging?

And the semen subject pops back out again: Unfolding the Myth, Is Semen Good For Complexion? Or was it all just invented by the one with the erection?

And of course, Life Lesson #42. The best is yet to come. For SmakNews.com, it’s a coming alright… and it’s not going to do it on your face either.

Sorry, couldn’t resist the joke. But do come again! We have more updates up our sleeves for you…

SmakNews is running an awesome promotion with e.l.f. cosmetics — together, we’re giving away some cool make-up kits to make sure you have the latest looks for Summer

Contest Rules:

1. All you need to do is make sure we know you’re “talking smak” on SmakNews.com by having an active user profile (signing up here).
2. Let e.l.f. know how much you love them too by signing up for their newsletter from their site www.eyeslipsface.com
3. Final step is to make sure you grab both of our attention by sending us the following tweet (click the image below)
   Twitter: @askelf I entered “She’s a Beauty” @smaknews http://bit.ly/s2j8 for #ELF cosmetics! They’re selecting random winners daily, fingers crossed!
   

Be sure to check out www.eyeslipsface.com for some pretty predictions on what we’re giving away… add your email and always stay on top of awesome deals from .e.l.f- the latest recession-proof beauty trick

Good luck!!

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