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.

My friend Jenn often complains about her perfect, blonde hair. It’s either “too flat” (’70s, sleekly gorgeous) or “too poufy” (tousled, Victoria’s Secret model-ish), or her highlights are “too obvious” (like Sienna Miller’s).

When I received a frantic voice mail (”What do I do? They discontinued my favorite wave spray and it’s the only thing that makes my hair not-flat-but-not-poufy!”), I almost ignored it. But I figured Jenn would be the ultimate critical-yet-fair test subject for the for-blondes-only spray wax that I—unquestionably a brunette—was never going to try.

A week later, I got another voice mail: “Oh my God—I love it! My hair looks just right. It’s piecey, but it’s under control, and it doesn’t feel like there’s anything in it.”

I’m happy for her; really, I am.

–Dawn Spinner, associate beauty editor

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Yahoo’s latest project is Shine, an online magazine aimed at women in the 25-54 demographics. The site integrates some of Yahoo’s standard social networking features, but it doesn’t go too deep: it’s just your standard collection of articles in a nice, clean, magazine format.

There’s always room for a project like this, especially if it’s executed well and if you already have 40 million women visiting the site each month. Anyway you look at it, one can’t deny that Yahoo is trying hard to increase its value ever since Microsoft’s unsolicited takeover bid. Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Live, OneConnect, search video ads and now Shine are only a portion of new services, features and upgrades we’ve seen from Yahoo lately. Whether or not will all this make Microsoft add a couple of bucks to that bid remains to be seen.