Boomtown

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• MUSIC VIDEO: Gucci Mane – Lemonade

  
  FUCK YOUR BLOG!!! - THE3XGP.COM is all about MUSIC-FASHION-SPORTS-GOSSIP - Updated Daily — Authority: 152
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  12 hours ago

• Liveblogging the Google Search Event: Twitter, MySpace and More!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Right now, BoomTown is sitting right behind the very affable Jason Hirschhorn, chief product officer of MySpace, who is here to make one of the many partner announcements with Google, at its “search event” in Silicon Valley today. I also ran right into Twitter’s Biz Stone at the coffee stand. He is also here to ...
  15 hours ago

• Liveblogging the Google Confab at 10 am PT: Searchtastic?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. BoomTown will be motoring the MINI– top up , it’s pouring rain here!–down to Silicon Valley this morning to liveblog a “search event” that Google is holding at the Computer History Museum. Last week, Microsoft (MSFT) unveiled some new features ...
  20 hours ago

• Yahoo Adds New Privacy Tool for Users, Just as FTC Privacy Hearings Start Today (and MicroHoo Regulatory Approval Is Pending)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Yahoo announced a new consumer tool this morning, called “Ad Interest Manager.” BoomTown is going to ignore the could-it-be-duller name for the feature, which–Yahoo (YHOO) said in a press release you can see below–gives users a “central place where Yahoo! visitors can see a concise summary of their online ...
  21 hours ago

• Study Group Time: Here Are the Legal Briefs for eBay-Craigslist Trial Tomorrow!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  The trial begins bright and early tomorrow morning in Delaware between online auction giant eBay and Web classified kingpin craigslist. Since BoomTown is in a “Paper Chase” mood, I expect everyone to bone up on the legal issues of the Silicon Valley face-off, by reading the pre-trial briefs below. If not, as ...
  1 day ago

• Is the New Droid Ad Anti-Women and Anti-Gay or Just Plain Idiotic? Actually, All Three!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  What in the world can one make of the new ad for the Droid, the Motorola (MOT) smartphone with Google (GOOG) Android software on the Verizon Wireless (VZ) network, which apparently put out this commercial? Here’s what: It aggressively calls the Apple (AAPL) iPhone a dumb blonde and then a prissy dude in need of a ...
  3 days ago

• MicroHoo Signs on the Dotted Line: Final Agreement Done

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) finally dotted all their i’s and crossed all their t’s today on the final definitive agreement for their search and online advertising partnership. Somewhere a lawyer got his briefs. No one but tech reporters and hair-trigger Wall Street analysts care, but the pair had to extend ...
  3 days ago

• Freaky Geek Bear, Nooks, 3D Cameras, Head Massages and a Facial for BoomTown: The Churchill Club GadgetFest Video!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Last night, Walt Mossberg and I hosted our seventh annual “ What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” program for the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. Every year, we show off a range of new tech toys to the crowd, helped by our regular gadget freak, Greg Harper, and also guest “tech geek” ...
  3 days ago

• Google To Hold an Anything-Bing-Can-Do-We-Can-Do-Better Search Event (and Singalong?) Monday

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Google answered BoomTown’s blatantly begging plea to call, write or just say hi, after being inundated in news of Bing search from Microsoft (MSFT) this week–emailing yesterday about an “search event” to be held Monday in Silicon Valley. It will ...
  3 days ago

• Another Legal Tussle for eBay–and Its Not Skype This Time!–as Former CEO and Calif. Guv Hopeful Whitman Kicks Off Craigslist Trial Monday

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Auction giant eBay is headed to court again on Monday and, for once it is nothing to do with the litigious Skype co-founders. Instead, it’s a battle in Delaware with craigslist, the San Francisco online classified powerhouse that eBay holds a minority ownership position in. That stake is actually precisely ...
  4 days ago

• BoomTown Decodes Google CEO Schmidts Shut-Up-You-Whiny-News-Folk Op-Ed (So You Dont Have To)!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in as an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for translation. Well, BoomTown shall not tarry from the task of decoding the extra-long rumination from the head of Google (GOOG), who was responding to the recent spate ...
  4 days ago

• Two Microsoft Search Dudes Talk About Bing! (BoomTowns Flip Is Waiting by the Phone for the Google Search Gurus Call!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Yesterday, BoomTown liveblogged a demo session that Microsoft held for reporters about some new features on its Bing search service, a glimpse at what Twitter and Facebook integration will look like and also the debut of a nifty new beta of its online map service. It is still the bazillion-dollar question–and I ...
  4 days ago

• BoomTown Can Count on Scooby-Dooby-Dont for Laughs: The Roast Video

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Sadly, due to the sniffles and some minor hacking (thanks, kids!), BoomTown had to miss the roast of well-known blogger Robert Scoble that Startup2Startup had for its holiday party last night on Pier 38 in San Francisco. I was skedded to be one of the roasters, though, so I sent along a video of all the various video ...
  5 days ago

• Microsoft Slides of Bing Demo: Mapping and Mash-Ins

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  This morning, Microsoft (MSFT) showed off some new features of Bing and reviewed how the search service has been doing since its launch. Here are the slides that the company’s top search execs used in the presentation, which included not much new stuff, except for a cool update to its mapping and getting ...
  5 days ago

• Liveblogging Bing New Features Demo: No Donuts and John Mayer!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Earlier today, BoomTown posted about a visit this morning in San Francisco, from a passel of top Microsoft (MSFT) search execs rolling into downtown San Francisco to show off even more new features for Bing. I am here, but the donuts are not. Um, Google (GOOG) always has organic donuts! In any case, the line-up ...
  5 days ago

• Yahoos "Project Rushmore" Begins with Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  A few weeks ago, several sources at Yahoo begin telling BoomTown about a mysterious “Project Rushmore,” which was described as a massive integration of major social networking sites across the giant Internet portal. Now, the first unveiling of that comes with this morning’s announcement that Yahoo (YHOO) will ...
  5 days ago

• Bing Keeps Up the New Features Rollouts–BoomTown Will Liveblog a Microsoft Showcase at 10 am PT!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  This morning, a passel of top Microsoft search execs is rolling into downtown San Francisco to show off even more new features for Bing. They include: Satya Nadella, SVP for research and development for the Online Services Division; Harry Shum, a corporate VP who is leading core search development; MSN Corporate VP ...
  5 days ago

• Lets Make a Deal! Groupon Nabs $30 Million in Funding

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  Groupon, a group-buying social e-commerce service, has nabbed $30 million in its second round of funding, led by Accel Partners. The innovative Chicago-based service, which launched only a year ago, had previously gotten $4.8 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates, as well as $1 million from an angel ...
  6 days ago

• Nice Comment.

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  BoomTown gets guff about a lot of stuff, but none are more passionate than those who wanted us to make our comment system better. And they were right. So, while we never move fast enough, even for ourselves, tonight we have launched a new comments tool to improve the user experience on AllThingsD.com . It lets ...
  6 days ago

• Dont Miss the Annual GadgetFest at Churchill Club Thursday, Featuring Facebook Celeb Geeks

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 696
  This Thursday, my All Things Digital partner, Walt Mossberg, and I are hosting–for the seventh year running–the annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” program for the Churchill Club. This year, our guest “tech geek” celebs–drawn from the gadget-mad players of Silicon ...
  1 week ago

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