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• Weekend Update 11.14.09- Keeping your Heads and Data in the Cloud

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 685
  If you follow AllThingsD, and Weekend Update hopes you do, then one thing you’ve come to value is the special way the staff gets around the world to cover the important stuff and report it straight from the geek’s mouth. This week our bi-coastal brigade brought the tech news as it happened, and in Boomtown’s ...
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• Cameron Would Be a Fit for Yanks

  
  Mike Silva's New York Baseball Digest — Authority: 146
  Those coming to the site have heard me gripe about Mike Cameron being an unacceptable option for left field for the Mets. This doesn’t mean I feel the same way about Cameron and the Yankees. If Johnny Damon prices himself out of pinstripes then Ken Rosenthal reports that baseball people believe Brian Cashman ...
  2 days ago

• Viral Video: How Much Do I Love Taylor Swift? (Take That, Kanye!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  In this ruthlessly funny video–especially for such a sweet-looking young lady–singer Taylor Swift manages to ice pretty much everyone who ever dissed her. And Kanye West’s attention-grabbing antics at the MTV Video Music Awards in September are not the only ones getting a musical smackdown from the 19-year-old, ...
  2 days ago

• AOLs Mass Layoffs Will Cost $200 Million

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 745
  AOL formally acknowledged that it plans on a round of very large cuts: In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Time Warner (TWX) unit said it plans on taking up to $200 million in restructuring charges through the first half of 2010. Earlier this week, Kara Swisher reported that AOL’s coming ...
  2 days ago

• Want Women In Tech, Find The Role Models

  
  Regular Geek — Authority: 560
  The Next Web has an interesting set of posts regarding women in technology. The first post by Boris makes the accusation that women are holding themselves back. He even includes this inflammatory idea: The longer I work in our industry the more I’m starting to think that most women never miss an opportunity to ...
  2 days ago

• Is Google Scary? Not to Silicon Valley, Even at a Party for a Book About How Scary It Could Be!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  While at a book party for author Ken Auletta in San Francisco last night, BoomTown took the opportunity to ask those gathered whether they were scared or not of Google and its growing power. The Auletta book covers a lot about the search giant, but also drills in on how traditional media and advertising, as well as ...
  2 days ago

• Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks. That was one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview last night–which you can see below–with well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book , “Googled: The End of the World as We ...
  2 days ago

• From the Department of Oh No, She Didnt: Whitman Defends eBays Skype Debacle

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  If spinning is an intense political skill, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is doing her very best at trying to create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. As Om Malik reports on GigaOm , Whitman–who is trying to nab the Republican gubernatorial nomination for California–told a radio interviewer recently that ...
  3 days ago

• The Show is Over … Until Next Year

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 131
  I have now been a part of 60% of the Indiana Chamber’s 20 annual award dinners. OK, even my 10-year-old son (who sometimes has math homework that just doesn’t look familiar; OK, it befuddles me on occasion) would nail that simple little math problem without blinking an eye. What is the Annual Awards Dinner? More ...
  3 days ago

• Apple Uses "Switchers" Ad to Keeping Smacking Windows 7

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  While sales of Windows 7 are doing well–especially compared to the previous Vista operating, according to many reports–Apple (AAPL) is continuing to slap the Microsoft (MSFT) operating system software around. There were a bunch of mean-spirited “Get a Mac” ads right when Windows 7 was released in late ...
  3 days ago

• The Judge Was Wrong: RealNetworks RealDVD Appeal Document

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  RealNetworks just lobbed its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case revolving around its DVD-copying software, RealDVD. A U.S. District judge had put a preliminary injunction on RealNetworks (RNWK) to stop sales in August and then renewed it in October . In a typical Hollywood move, the Motion Picture ...
  4 days ago

• Viral Video: "2012"–Killer Special Effects…Literally!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Hollywood is selling the end times hard this week with the opening of “2012,” a blockbuster-style movie about the last days of the world for humanity. Apparently, we were warned! It’s based on junk theories about how the 5,125-year-long Mayan Long Count calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, which can only mean ...
  4 days ago

• TwinkedIn: The Reeses Cup Video of LinkedIns Reid Hoffman and Twitters Biz Stone

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Guess what? It’s yet another online company going gaga over Twitter integration–this time LinkedIn is announcing a partnership with the microblogging service. Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) recently announced various ways they were lacing their various services with Twitter’s feed, mostly around search. ...
  4 days ago

• AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then…the Big One

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California, it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off. Sources said the cuts, first reported by Valleywag’s Ryan Tate , will be widespread across AOL, even as it inches ever closer to ...
  4 days ago

• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion. That would be the sale of AdMob to search behemoth Google (GOOG) for $750 million in stock ...
  5 days ago

• Google Primer on AdMob Acquisition: We Can Believe We Ate the Whole Thing!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Google has a Web page up about today’s acquisition of AdMob for $750 million in stock, which includes the lovely image below of the differences between what the Silicon Valley companies do in the mobile advertising space. Said Google (GOOG) on its site about the purchase : “Mobile advertising is a rapidly ...
  5 days ago

• Google Acquires AdMob for $750 Million in Stock (Plus the Press Release and Video With CEO)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 735
  Google has acquired AdMob for $750 million, a huge price for an innovative start-up that has pioneered online ads on mobile and now smart phones. BoomTown visited AdMob last fall and posted about how it was likely to eventually be acquired by… Google (GOOG)! (Google has provided a primer on the sale , which ...
  5 days ago

• Nick Swisher Is A 12-Year-Old Fangirl [Mlb]

  
  Deadspin — Authority: 817
  As the Yankees cleaned out their lockers, " Nick Swisher s teammate photo collage, snipped from Yankees gameday programs and newspaper back pages, remained affixed to his locker." [ MLB.com ]
  6 days ago

• Weekend Update 11.07.09—Big Trouble in Little China Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 685
  Big news often comes in small changes, and Boom Town was all over the little moves that meant big stories this week. Kara covered a massive redesign of the MSN (MSFT) homepage that follows the old car racing mantra turned web design ethos. Add power and lightness. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when boom Town ...
  1 week ago

• The One Where Joe Jackson and Everyone Else Is Or Has A Dick [Gossip Roundup]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 872
  Joe Jackson: dick, obviously. That Slumdog Millionaire kid, the theory: huge wang. Levi Johnston: famously awaited dong. Jon Gosselin, dickfore. King Bloomberg? You tell me. Paula Abdul, Fergie, Josh...
  1 week ago

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