Audio photo-enhancement service Razz has just launched a fun little tool for mashing existing pop-culture photos with your own voice tags. Called Talking Photos, you can take images from your favorites movies, etc., and add in your own personal stamp by lending your voice for a funny quote. There are apps to go along with Talking Photo’s new service, including one for Facebook. Think of it as a never-ending photo caption contest.

The Facebook app of course allows for easier sharing of the Talking Photos with friends, while also presenting a practical place in which to promote your own personalized Talking Photo. There are a number of services that allow for such personalization of existing images, videos, slide shows, and other forms of media, such as Jabber. They seem to be most useful when th holidays come around, and sending friends personalized greetings makes the most sense.

Such personalization of copyrighted media, however, also presents an interesting marketing opportunity for brands that are brave enough to go down this road for commercial purposes. Depending on the type of media, such branding could be an easy consideration for companies looking to further integrate with social media.

Talking Photos is the type of content you’re likely to find on comment threads and guestbooks on sites like MySpace, but that doesn’t make it any less funny. Click here to check out the Facebook application for Talking Photos. If you’re a friend of Pete Cashmore’s, you’re likely to find a hilarious little quip that’s been created by Razz for demonstrating the Talking Photos application.

Believe it all not, this time the title really says it all. Reuters reports that Yahoo plans to send a letter to Microsoft on Monday, in which they’ll state they’re not opposed to a deal with Microsoft per se, but they think their company is worth more than the $31 per share which is what Microsoft is offering them.

They also plan to “reject Microsoft’s suggestion that its business is deteriorating,” but let’s wait for the actual letter to appear, shall we? What seemed like the most exciting tech story of the year is now turning into a snoozefest.

Just weeks ago, America knew where 50 Cent stood in this year’s presidential race: solidly in Camp Hillary.

“I just think she’d do a good job,” the MC said in a widely circulated Fox News video. “There’s nothing bad about Obama in my eyes either, but I just think Hillary would be my choice.

“I’m not sure America is ready to have a black president,” he continued. “I think they might kill him.”

However, after hearing Obama’s stunning speech on race in America earlier this month, the rapper pulled what is now commonly known in political circles as a “Bill Richardson.” In other words, he changed his mind after the speech and switched to Obama’s side.

“I heard Obama speak,” the rapper told the MTV News crew assembled at his Connecticut mansion to hear the new G-Unit LP and talk about his upcoming video game. “He hit me with that he-just-got-done- watching-’Malcolm X,’ and I swear to God, I’m like, ‘Yo, Obama!’ ” He threw his fist in the air. “I’m Obama to the end now, baby!”

However, he said he’s now not certain which side he’s on. “To be honest, I haven’t been following that anymore. I lost my interest,” he said. “I listened to some of the debate and things that they were saying, and I just got lost in everything that was going on. … Don’t look for my vote, for me to determine nothing on that. Just say, ‘50 Cent, he don’t know, so don’t ask Fiddy.’

“I just think there’s people that might not be ready for an African-American president,” he continued. “It’ll be an issue, believe it or not.”

The MC said that as a black man, “You’ve got to be conscious of racism, period. And it’s still there. We don’t deal with it as often as my grandparents did. My grandparents grew up in South Carolina, so they experienced the heart of that.”

Never one to mince words, 50 doesn’t mind that his comments get people talking.

“There’s a lot of people that agree with me that may not voice their opinions, and I don’t blame them for not voicing their opinions, but you need me.”

It remains to be seen if losing 50’s support will rattle Hillary’s campaign, but it’s safe to say it hasn’t been the best week for the New York senator. Along with the loss of Richardson, the press — and the Obama campaign — has continued to hit her over her “misspoken” claim to have landed in Bosnia under dangerous sniper fire back in 1996. She has since disavowed the statement, which angered many of the veterans featured in MTV’s “Choose or Lose Presents: Clinton & Obama Answer Young Veterans,” among others. (Former MTV News correspondent Tabitha Soren recently published her own account of flying to Bosnia fifteen days before Hillary. No sniper fire for her either.)

While Governor Richardson has begun to speak out on behalf of Obama at campaign stops and on television, it was unclear at press time whether 50 will receive similar requests from the Obama team.

Senator Barack Obama has videos by Will.I.Am, limited-edition T-shirts from Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and campaign posters by one of the hottest artists around, Shepard Fairey.

One thing he doesn’t have yet, however, is the Democratic nomination. He’s still fighting Senator Hillary Clinton for that. While Clinton is behind in the race, she’s still in the running. If she gets the nomination, all of those artists who have supported Obama — not to mention regular voters — will have to decide whether to follow the Democratic Party line or abandon ship.

“I can’t speculate on what would happen at that time,” said hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, who is putting out a mixtape for Obama with DJ Green Lantern. “But it is very important to me that John McCain, who is not as bad as his predecessor, but I can’t say for sure what he might do, he might blow the world up!” (We’re specialists in Russell-ese here at MTV News, so we’re pretty sure he’s saying it’s important that McCain does not get into the White House.)

Pete Wentz went the oh-so emo route and posted some lyrics on his blog about what he would do. “I quoted that MGMT song where they were like, ‘Let’s move to France and do drugs,’ but that’s probably NOT what I would do,” the Fall Out Boy bassist wrote. If Hillary does get the nomination, Wentz will be taking a closer look before he decides to support her.

“If it is superdelegates, people are going to call bullsh– on it. If she steals delegates, people are going to call bullsh– on it,” he said. “I think I’m always going to vote my conscience, or whatever, when it comes down to it.”

The music industry does have some more dyed-in-the-wool Democrats, including Roots mastermind ?uestlove.

“I’ll vote for Hillary. And I say that without any reservation — even though I am talking really slowly,” he said. “I’m a Democrat.”

For now, ?uest and some of his fellow bandmates are donating a lot of time to the Obama campaign. “We are pretty much at their disposal right now,” he said. “I know that there is a concert planned. I know that Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock are confirmed.” Details for that show are still being hammered out.

Not all of ?uest’s bandmates share his confidence, or exuberance, in the Democratic Party. Black Thought thinks there are a lot of Obama supporters who will simply stay home in November if Clinton is on the ticket.

“Maybe more Americans are able to identify with Obama than Hillary. He’s multiracial, he’s lived the immigrant experience,” he said. “This is the first time a lot of people have even felt it was important to vote, and that is solely because of the hope they get from Barack Obama. So if he didn’t win, I don’t think it would be important for a lot of people.”

One in six Obama supporters said they would stay home in November if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Party nominee, according to a CNN/ Opinion Research poll released March 27. The same number of Clinton supporters said the same thing about an Obama candidacy. And how about this? Twenty-eight percent of Obama backers said they’ll support presumptive Republican nominee John McCain if Clinton gets the nod. On the flip side, 32 percent of Clinton backers said the same thing, according to a Pew Research poll also released March 27.

“That would be cutting off your nose to spite your face,” said R.E.M.’s Mike Mills. “That would just be insanity. We’ve got to change. I don’t think Hillary would change it as much as Obama, but you’ve still got to get somebody aside from a Republican in there.”

Don’t worry, Mike, we still have seven months until the general election. That’s plenty of time for Democrats to get behind one candidate — or not. It’s also plenty of time for countless numbers of polls to come out.

R.E.M. have seen their fair share of political polls and presidential elections. Frontman Michael Stipe had been a longtime Clinton ally, but this time around, he is getting behind Obama.

“I’m really thrilled about voting for someone younger than me,” Stipe said. “I’m really excited to see what the generation below us and just below that might do with a president who is younger than me.”

But the typically outspoken singer didn’t say much more than that. “It might be better for Obama’s run for the presidency if I shut up.”

Chinese authorities have chosen to cease the blanket ban on English-language segment of Wikipedia, and will instead refine their method of “editorial discretion” to put the kibosh on specific elements within the Web-based encyclopedia. Two of topics that China’s is maintaining a no-no policy on are Tibet and Tiananmen Square, Reuters reports.

Despite the lifting of sanctions on the English-language Wikipedia, however, which was confirmed by Web users in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai this weekend, Chinese authorities continue to wholly restrict access to the Chinese-language version.

This partial removable of locks precedes the allowance of full uninhibited access to the Web promised by the Chinese government to the IOC (International Olympic Committee), which recently met with organizers in Beijing and made clear that the Internet “must be open for the duration of the 2008 (Olympic games).” How China will manage to convenience international attendees of the the events to be held this summer as well as ensure that it’s controls on the larger country as a whole are not subverted to any large degree is something that will surely be a subject of contention, especially as a global audience descends on the capital of Beijing in several months’ time.