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• Viral Video: When Forests Attack–Al Gore Is Taping Toy Guns to Trees

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Former VP and full-time envirogod Al Gore, who appeared at the fourth D: All Things Digital in May 2006, turned out to be a very funny guy onstage. And he’s funny on television too, as you can see from his hysterical appearance this past weekend on “Saturday Night Live.” In the bit, Gore talks about ...
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• While Microsoft Is Talking to Publishers, Paying Up to "Rent" Content for Bing to Thwart Google Is Unlikely

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  While it might be a dream of publishers–hard hit by the digital tsunami and blaming Google for the crisis–Microsoft is not likely to fork over the big bucks they’d need for exclusively indexing their content. “Microsoft isn’t the monopoly guy anymore,” joked one source close to ongoing talks between ...
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• AOL CEO Armstrong Talks About New Branding Effort and the Investor Road Show! (Plus Internal Aol. Logo Video)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  After AOL CEO Tim Armstrong unveiled the newly punctuated AOL logo –big A, little o, little l, period–last night, he got on the horn with BoomTown to chitty-chat about the change in image and, more pertinently, how it’s going on the road show to sell investors on the soon-to-be independent company. First ...
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• Google Search Stories–Including Batman!–Or Are They Anti-Bing Commercials in Disguise?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  It’s well known that Google doesn’t do much in the way of marketing around its search service. While you will catch advertising for the Chrome browser or for Android smartphones on the Web, given Google’s huge 70 percent market share in search, it hardly needs to attract users. So, then, what is one to make of ...
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• Weekend Update 11.21.09- The House of Cards Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 676
  In tough economic times such as these, even the biggest businesses get the urge to restructure, re-org and reshuffle. Kara began Monday with some of the hard facts from the pending AOL-TimeWarner (TWX) split. Stock issued for the post-spinoff AOL places the company’s total implied value at around $3 billion. ...
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• Hey, Hey, Hey, Twitter! Heres the Real "Whats Happening!"

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  BoomTown was intrigued when Mind-Your-Own Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter, penned a blog post yesterday about the microblogging service changing its prompting question. Now, above the little Twitter box, it reads, “What’s Happening?” and not the original tweet query “What are you doing?” ...
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• AOL Layoff Package: You Stay, You Pay

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  BoomTown has learned that AOL is offering those who “volunteer” to leave the company now a departure package that ranges from three to nine months of pay, compared to one to four months for employees laid off in the first quarter of next year. It’s a depressing rock-and-a-hard-place choice. An AOL spokesperson ...
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• MSN Head Greg Nelson Moves to MicroHoo Integration Role (Yahoo Picks Morrissey)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Greg Nelson (pictured here), who has had the thankless job of running MSN for Microsoft, has left that job and been given the even more thankless task of running the integration of the complex search and online advertising partnership struck by the software giant and Yahoo. Microsoft (MSFT) sent out an internal email ...
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• AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest–Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit . But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sale could ...
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• AOL Also Likely to Eye Sale of MapQuest–Is Microsoft a Possible Buyer?

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit . But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site. In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sale could ...
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• Yahoo Hires Amber Allman as New D.C. Director of Public Affairs

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Earlier today, BoomTown reported that Yahoo (YHOO) was poised to name a few new top execs at its Silicon Valley HQ. But, the company has also hired a new director of public affairs in the nation’s capital. After I queried the company, Yahoo confirmed that it has tapped Amber Allman , a vice president at 463 ...
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• Center for Digital Democracys Jeff Chester Talks About MicroHoo and More!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  While in Washington, D.C., BoomTown can’t just visit the policy wonks from Internet companies (such as my Facebook how-do-you-do here ), so I hightailed it several hundred feet and directly across Connecticut Avenue NW to visit with Jeff Chester. For those who don’t know him, Chester is the executive director of ...
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• Yahoo and Microsoft May Be Close to Signing

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 699
  Kara Swisher of Boomtown, who is normally a pretty reliable source of industry scoops, is reporting that Yahoo and Microsoft may be very close to finally signing their much-anticipated search and advertising deal . According to Swisher, though she has not received confirmation from either party, the two companies ...
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• Exclusive: Yahoo and Microsoft Poised to Finally Sign Definitive Search and Ad Agreement

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Yahoo and Microsoft are poised to finally sign the definitive agreement that will govern the complex and far-reaching search and online advertising partnership that they struck in late July, said sources close to the situation. If all goes well, the various Microsoft and Yahoo execs–who have been ferreted away over ...
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• Here Comes Tech-Heavy "Avatar" (and the Inevitable Smurf Spoof)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Hollywood director James Cameron is well known for his heavy use of special effects and techtastic techniques in his movies, which have included “Titanic,” “Aliens” and the first–and best–two “Terminator” blockbusters. In a few weeks, Cameron is hoping to hit geek gold again with a 3-D sci-fi ...
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• The 2009 Women’s Conference: Architects of Change

  
  e*star LA — Authority: 126
  Sheila Bair, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sir Richard Branson, Robin Roberts Imagine handfuls of power players in the international arena at one conference. Now imagine all those power players in one place to celebrate and further one theme: Architecs of Change. The California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on ...
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• Kara Visits Facebooks Washington, D.C. Office and Talks Policy!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Yesterday, BoomTown paid a visit on the Washington, D.C. office of Facebook to meet its reps in the nation’s capital. Perhaps not surprisingly, the social networking site has a very small–just a trio of on-the-young-side dudes–battening down the hatches from a funky office in a funky section of D.C., in Dupont ...
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• Palin Nears One Million Facebook Fans, While Lagging on Twitter

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin is certainly giving her Facebook fan page a workout this week, as she nears one million fans. Using the site to flack her new book, “Going Rogue,” which comes out officially today, it got a big boost today with her interview with Oprah Winfrey, clocking ...
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• Qualcomms CEO Paul Jacobs Talks About Smartbooks and More!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  When in San Diego recently, BoomTown paid a visit on Qualcomm and its Chairman and CEO Paul Jacobs to talk about a new “smartbook” device that wireless technology company unveiled last week. Well, sort of–while I got a gander at a prototype, the real one is not actually set to debut until the 2010 Consumer ...
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• The Missing Final Chapter of Aulettas Google Book: 25 Media Maxims

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 688
  Last week, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta launched his new book on the search giant: “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” But one final chapter was actually cut from the book, which Auletta posted this past weekend on his Web site. Auletta emailed BoomTown, explaining that he killed it, because it ...
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