Hasta La Gadget!

Yesterday it was the Nintendo Wii, today PlayStation 3 owners are the ones who get to enjoy streaming video from Netflix without leaving their couches, and without having to keep the Netflix disc in their DVD trays. Just fire up your PlayStation 3, head to the XrossMediaBar (XMB,) and you should see the Netflix app there, ready to download.

Once you have it installed on your PS3, the disc will no longer work. You’re free to use it as a Frisbee or a coaster for those drinks you can enjoy now that you don’t have to get up to watch a movie. At least PS3 owners will be able to enjoy streaming video in beautiful 1080p HD with Dolby 5.1 channel surround sound, something Wii owners sadly didn’t get yesterday, but that’s more Nintendo’s problem to solve than Netflix’s.

In what is arguably the oddest hip-hop alliance since Public Enemy met Anthrax, Blueprint rapper Jay-Z is teaming up with Microsoft’s Bing search engine to help promote his upcoming book, Decoded.

It’s a fairly unique promotional push we’ll give it that much. Microsoft will be putting pages from the rapper’s upcoming book all around the world (primarily in Jay-Z’s native New York) and online.

Users who discover the pages in the real world and text a number to Microsoft will be entered into a drawing for signed copies of the pages. All those who enter the contest will also be entered into the grand Prize drawing–a chance to see Jay-Z perform with Coldplay in Las Vegas on New Year’s.

Bing spokeswoman Lisa Gurry shed a bit more life on the promotion, “Pages will be placed in locations related to the content, so that’s everything from high profile advertising like billboards to very very unique placements such as swimming pools and pool tables, and even high-fashion designer clothing racks.”

When they finally arrived on the surface after two months trapped underground, the group of 33 trapped Chilean miner no doubt got more than they bargained for. There’s talk of movie and book deals and the like–it’s all a lot to take in. The miners are no doubt just happy to be home with their respective families.

There’s another unexpected perk on top of all of that, as well. California-based high-end sunglasses manufacturer Oakley has donated sunglasses to all of the miners. The company let the miners pick between either the Path or Range models from its Radar line–the glasses start at $180.

The donation came after a Chilean journalist approached the company, explaining that the miners would need eye protection after having been trapped in the dark mine for so long.

Andy Griffith was spotted in Thailand 16 minutes ago. Someone saw Robert Pattinson in Southern California seven hours ago. James Blunt, meanwhile, was apparently in Italy 10 hours ago. So it’s come to this. Not even poor Matlock can get a moment of privacy.

This information comes from Just Spotted, a creepy new celebrity stalking site set to launch next week. The site relies on content from sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare to track thousands of celebrities globally on a Google Maps mashup.

Now you find out where the weird looking dude from Twilight is at all times–isn’t technology wonderful?

Privacy advocates, naturally, have jumped all over the thing, calling it dangerous–and really, there’s little question why. The site brings a new level of tech savvy and intimacy to celebrity stalking that would make our friends over Gawker blush.

The folks behind JustSpotted have, naturally, been doing all they can to talk up the site ahead of its launch, including, among other things, its relationship with Twitter. The site’s CEO, AJ Asver, told The Hollywood Reporter, “We’ve been working very closely with Twitter for two years. We’re one of a handful of companies that has that sort of relationship with them.”

The microblogging site, it seems, isn’t having any of it. Twitter is reportedly terminating a license with the site, due to a perceived change in JustSpotted’s focus. Here’s what a Twitter representative had to say about the whole kerfuffle,

JustSpotted, then known as Scoopler, had previously licensed Twitter’s ‘firehose’ data feed of all public tweets for its real-time search engine, Scoopler.com. JustSpotted.com is not the product we licensed, and we have terminated their agreement.

So much for a special relationship. But while the site won’t be able to gather content from Twitter’s real-time search, it will continue to grab info from the site’s open API.