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You almost have to admire the shape-shifting–if not a wee bit slippery–stylings of Slide CEO Max Levchin.
The serial entrepreneur and widget king has signed distribution deals with media giants, such as Time Warner’s Warner Bros. unit, CBS and Comcast’s E! Entertainment channel, to allow users of its FunSpace video service to look at clips from shows.
To make money, Slide will get a cut of ads sold by its media partners.
Oh my, how incredibly traditional of Levchin.
But it should probably come as no surprise that Levchin is now singing a bit of a different tune these days, as the daunting task of actually building a sustainable business model and attracting long-term advertisers has dawned on him and probably many other Web 2.0 wunderkinds.
Posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 12:04 AM PT in BoomTown
According to popular legend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once kept two versions of his business card in his wallet–one with the title CEO, the other with “I’M CEO . . . BITCH.” Seems that before Facebook became the de facto platform of the “attention economy,” it was a platform for the attention-starved.
Posted on Thursday, July 24th, 2008 at 3:00 AM PT in Digital Daily
Facebook said this afternoon that it is opening its Translation Application to any developer using Facebook Platform. Beginning today, all Facebook developers can make their applications available in any of the 20 languages currently available on Facebook.
Posted on Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 1:45 PM PT in Digital Daily
BoomTown was right, Facebook has scored itself a “golden geek.” TechCrunch reports that Netscape/Opsware/Ning founder Marc Andreessen will join Accel Partners’ Jim Breyer, Founders Fund’s Peter Thiel and, of course, founder Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s board of directors.
Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 at 10:17 AM PT in Digital Daily
In its ongoing bid to prove there is a robust and sustainable ad business in the social networking space, widgetmaker Slide opened a New York office and hired a big deal online ad exec.
Of course, because it has to be hip, the office is in the always trendy West Village, instead of uptown on Madison Avenue.
Posted on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 at 10:32 PM PT in BoomTown
Facebook applications don’t really do anything special yet. Neither, for that matter, do Facebook’s ads. But that’s OK, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg insisted yesterday at the D6 conference. Some of the applications, like Slide’s SuperPoke, are really popular. Just like Elvis, she says.The comparison fails on two counts.
Posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 9:09 AM PT in Voices
Because Mark Zuckerberg is barely in his mid-20s, his résumé is a bit thinner than others here. Well, except for his first job as founder and CEO of Facebook, perhaps the most explosively popular social-networking company ever and the most high-profile Web 2.0 start-up. The Harvard undergrad brought the company to Silicon Valley before he had a chance to graduate from college, but managed to get a $15 billion valuation for the company anyway. Sheryl Sandberg was Facebook’s first high-profile hire, coming to the social-networking site from Google earlier this year. At Facebook, she manages a wide swath of the company’s business operations, including sales, marketing, business development, human resources, public policy, privacy and communications.
Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 at 5:56 PM PT in D6
With Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates soon relinquishing his daily role at the software company he co-founded as it grapples with Google, European regulators, Yahoo and Windows Vista critics, tonight’s conversation with Gates and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will be a memorable one.
Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 6:25 PM PT in D6
This morning, Facebook is planning on showing a little leg to the press, throwing a “casual Open Door session… to learn more about the upcoming New Profile Design.”
You know, the long expected renovation of main Facebook pages consumers use daily, which has third-party developers in a hubbub and is likely to cause an even bigger one among users no matter how good it is?
Posted on Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 1:02 AM PT in BoomTown
BoomTown’s most favorite part of the Yahoo takeover circus?
The dueling letters, of course! How the lovely practice of missives has fallen out of favor, as soulless emails have grown in use.
Well, not in the land of hostile takeovers!
So here’s our decoding of billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s thankfully brief letter to Yahoo’s Chairman Roy Bostock, informing Yahoo that he begins bombing in five minutes.
Posted on Thursday, May 15th, 2008 at 2:01 PM PT in BoomTown
If you read this blog, you might think that Kara Swisher isn’t a big fan of fun. Or at least of silly, fun apps like SuperPoke! and what we call “social entertainment.” Call me silly, but I’d take entertainment over utility any time, and you know what? I bet you would too.
Posted on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 at 12:01 AM PT in Voices
So I was in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for a lovely wedding, traveling back to a city where I started my career and worked for 15 years after college.
And I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for the wedding, all of whom were quite intelligent, armed with all [...]
Posted on Monday, April 28th, 2008 at 1:38 AM PT in BoomTown
OK, I like Twitter a lot, but what is up with all this tech news coverage of its outages?
With the Twitter service being glitchy all weekend, for example, the jump-to-the-next-big-thing champ Robert Scoble wrote another piece yesterday smacking his old amour and praising his new love: FriendFeed.
You know, the new pretty young thing in [...]
Posted on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 AM PT in BoomTown
Ah, more pointless eye candy from BoomTown’s good friends at Facebook!
Not satisfied to just entertain the masses with inane Vampires and SuperPokes, the social-networking site unleashed Lexicon on users this week.
It’s kind of like Google Zeitgeist except… well, it is exactly the same concept, all part of Facebook’s admiration of Google (GOOG) things, like, [...]
Posted on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 1:00 AM PT in BoomTown
Yes, the board of Yahoo is meeting today to try to devise new and more dastardly ways of wringing more money out of Microsoft.
For viewers just tuning in, so far this week on “As the Tiny-Incestuous-Petty-Juvenile-Digital World Turns,” Yahoo has been plenty busy:
An AOL mashup deal!
A Google search-ad partnership!
Even–cue the trumpets!!!–the late entrance of that man-about-Silicon-Valley from Web 1.0, Frank Quattrone, working for Google, which is helping Yahoo on AOL (and, fun, snake-eating-itself fact: as a banker, Quattrone worked for Yahoo when it was contemplating buying eBay).
This is so deliciously sweet, in terms of geek soap opera, that I fear I may get a major cavity soon.
Posted on Friday, April 11th, 2008 at 2:16 AM PT in BoomTown
