While some girls just want to have fun, a select group of women want a lot more than that.

Forbes evaluates that Celine Dion’s fortune is roughly the same as those from both Julia Roberts and Jennifer Lopez… which adds up to a cool 250M$. Singing in Las Vegas, in front of audiences who pay an average of 136$ per ticket, has worked wonders for this female show-business monument who sold over 140 million albums, over the years.

Let’s take a peek at 2006′s the Top 10 weathiest women, in entertainment:

1. Oprah Winfrey – 52, 1,5MM$ – She pockets roughly 225M$ per year through her vast commercial empire of media properties.
2. J. K. Rowling – 40, 1MM$ – Perhaps you didn’t know that the author of Harry Potter has already been on social welfare… but nowadays, she’s enjoying the other end of the rainbow, to say the least.
3. Martha Stewart – 64, 638M$ – She’s spent 6 months in jail for playing the insider game, as the head of her own publicly traded company. Now, she’s out to make the world even prettier, Martha-style.
4. Madonna – 48, 325M$ – Although her fortune now comes more from her shows than her album sales, she keeps pumping the hits enjoyed by a very large fan base.
5. Celine Dion – 38, 250M$ – Of the 140 million albums she’s sold, worldwide, 15 million were for her hit song “My Heart Will Go On” from the hit movie “Titanic”.
6. Mariah Carey – 36, 225M$ – Back with a vengance in 2005, she’s already sold over 160 millions albums, in her career.
7. Janet Jackson – 40, 150M$ – She’s never been as rich as her brother Michael but hey, she has enough to get by.
8. Julia Roberts – 39, 140M$ – She now gets over 20M$ per movie and overall, she’s the actress who’s been paid the most… of all times.
9. Jennifer Lopez – 38, 110M$ – Her revenues come from all over: television, music, cinema, clothes, perfumes and restauration.
10. Jennifer Aniston – 37, 110M$ – At the time when Friends was still a popular series, there have been times when she was banking as much as 1M$ per episode.

Quick legend: name – age, fortune – comments.

About Oprah Winfrey’s ascension to absolute financial freedom, it’s important to keep in mind she’s originally from a poor, rural area in Mississippi. That’s probably why so many women, from around the world, can relate to her. To this day, she’s also one of only two black female billionnaires, the other one being Sheila Crump Johnson. Her annual revenue of over 225M$ comes from TV (namely through Harpo Productions), satellite radio, magazines and various multimedia ventures. For the handsome men out there, she’s still single… and doesn’t have kids.

Popular teen idol, Britney Spears, doesn’t make the Top 10 list even though, at a relatively young age of 25, she’s earned a 100M$ fortune, mainly from her 75 million music albums sold (remember the hit “…Baby One More Time”). More recently, her multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, namely her profitable line of perfumes, has helped pad her wallet.

Entertainment is a huge market segment which is driven by culture, innovation, quality and flair. These women have proven it’s possible to succeed in a world still massively dominated by men.

There’s no end in sight for the appreciation of the fortunes held by these generally young women who continue to… entertain the world.

Social networking is all about staying behind a computer while having the feeling to still be connecting with other human beings. While MySpace is typically open to anyone, at the opposite end of the spectrum exists a community you can only join if you’re invited and it’s called A Small World, or ASW for short.

Nobody knows for sure who’s active in there but there have been media reports about Paris Hilton and Naomi Campbell being members. This online community, created by the Weinstein Company (generally known for their movie ventures) expects the small membership base to help create closer ties between members. Around 130,000 people are allegedly members but the Weinstein brothers would like to grow that number in the lower millions, in the coming years.

This international network is meant to share information that might come in handy for anybody with lots of money and very little free time. Matters as mundane as choosing the best restaurant to eat snails, in Los Angeles to more commercial interests like where to find a 60 ft yatch already anchored in the Meditarranean sea are the bulk of what supposedly available, in A Small World.

It’s always assumed this information is correct because no media, including Expensive.Name, is being granted access to see, first-hand, what’s really in there. You’re free to watch the CNN and CNBC interviews, for added insight on this.

On her web page, for instance, Naomi Campbell is said to describe herself as a "busy worker" instead of all the other things that would come to mind considering the recent legal ramblings she’s been into. In other words, this is probably just another place to show off as well as ask about anything glitzy, expensive and more often than not, largely unknow to the general public.

While there have been members raving about A Small World’s ability to help them find reliable photographers for their wedding or even nannies for their kids, it’s pretty clear such "quality services" can be found elsewhere, just as easily.

Perhaps the people who get invited (read: sucked) into this social network feel some kind of peer pressure to actually invest time in it and eventually sprinkle a little dough around so some level of spin enhances their actual or perceived "reputation", in the group.

Without going so far as to say this whole thing is about the "herd mentality" where everyone wants to be there because everybody who seems to be anybody is already there, the fact that it’s private says a lot about how narrow the networking can get — it’s like digital inbreeding on steroids.

The whole thing and the mentality behind it appear to be the web equivalent of a gated community. People should rightfully ask themselves why they would trade their current access to a world of unlimited discoveries for a limited, secretive and closed community?

If the members of A Small World are having a blast burning their money among themselves, good for them. Happy people are always good for our planet’s karma but "gated web sites" (like ASW’s) look like the metaphorical equivalent of lonely islands within a sea of exciting… and unlimited discoveries.

If you already enjoy your multimedia content on your Mac or PC, you probably caught yourself wishing for a more comfortable chair, only to realize you already have a comfy one in the living room… but how can all that multimedia stuff follow you there?

Your newly found answer to address this situation is called the Apple TV and it lets you -wirelessly- recenter the heart of your digital life in your living room (or wherever your TV screen may be located, in your home — or office).

Watch movie, movie trailers, TV shows, podcasts and photos, from your computer, onto your TV. You can also listen to your favorite music through the living rooms sound system, which is usally better than that of your PC. In Apple’s own words, this new device brings iTunes to the big screen!

On the tech side, the Apple TV sports an Intel CPU, 802.11 b/g/n wireless networking, USB 2.0, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, HDMI, the standard "out ports" (including optical audio) as well as a convenient 40 GB hard drive.

Five computers can connect to the Apple TV so this box can be considered a true hub for all your local Macs and PCs. At a cool 299$, it’s can be yours now, from the Apple Store.

Rumors come and go but few people believed Steve Jobs when, last September, he hinted there would be an iPhone coming out, sometime "next year", in 2007.

Well, we’re "next year" and the iPhone is for real!

This latest Jobs announcement, from San Francisco’s MacWorld Expo, blows away anything announced at Las Vegas’ CES trade show. Literally. The iPhone is still hot off the stage and already, it’s set to redefine the way people use cellphones, Mac style.

The list of features is so overwhelming that this device might well replace more than one of yours.

For starters, it’s a very slim (11.6 mm = wow) device sporting a 3.5 in 480 x 320 pixels touchscreen display with multi-touch support as well as a smart proximity sensor which knows when the iPhone is close to your ear.

Add to the mix a 2 MP integrated camera, 4 GB or 8 GB of storage, Bluetooth with EDR and A2DP, Wi-Fi which instantly activates when in range for service as well as a quadband GSM radio with EDGE. It also runs MacOS X which is downright amazing!

The iPhone cleverly combines 3 products into one convenient device.

It’s a (1) mobile phone, a (2) widescreen iPod with touch controls and an (3) on-the-road internet communications device featuring desktop-class e-mail, web browsing, maps and searching.

The user interface used to control the iPhone is based on a large multi-touch display that lets you do anything and everything… with your fingers (no more need for a stylus).

There’s a lot more to say about the iPhone, namely through the partnerships with Google and Yahoo! but for now, let’s just mention it’s offered as a Cingular exclusive, in the US, for 499$ (4 GB) or 599$ (8 GB) on a 2 year contract.

It’s expected to ship stateside in June while Europe is scheduled around October and Asia, somewhere in 2008.

Keep in mind this device is most probably giving heart attacks to executives (and stockholders) at competing cellphone manufacturers who face Apple as a fierce new competitor that apparently has everything to please, even the price tag.