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Viral Video: Zuckerberg Talks About the FacePhone (Not!) Plus Photo Proof (Also Not!)

Kara Swisher in News on September 20, 2010 at 3:25 am PT

Oh dear–a PR war with a social networking site? Really? In any case, such things are better left to the professionals who make Hollywood movies, opening October 1 at a theater near you. But here’s 1938 Media’s video interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg–sort of!–to clear it all up.

Viral Video: Nobody Is Listening

Kara Swisher in News on August 26, 2010 at 9:52 am PT

There’s been a bit of bloggery agonizing of late about the possibility that no one is listening to the endless stream of sharing via social updates and other social networking tools. As in, if a check-in falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Here is one answer.

Viral Video: Here Come the Facebook Movie Spoofs!

Kara Swisher in News on July 19, 2010 at 2:55 am PT

It was inevitable, I suppose, that the highly stylized trailers for the upcoming movie, “The Social Network,” would be ripe for mocking. The full trailer from Sony unit Columbia Pictures uses a creepy Vega Choir version of the Radiohead song, “Creep,” and has all kinds of dramatic flourishes–making it perfect for spoofs. Here are three.

Viral Video: Larry and Sergey Buzz You Up, While Zuckerberg Is Board

Kara Swisher in News on June 12, 2010 at 12:55 am PT

How in the world did BoomTown miss these very funny new puppets from 1938 Media of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? Here are the videos.

Steve Ballmer Unplugged: The Puppet Edition

Kara Swisher in News on July 31, 2009 at 3:21 pm PT

BoomTown is spending the day at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, Wash., interviewing a passel of execs about the Yahoo online advertising and search partnership. But, while here, I have not been able to resist trotting out this very funny puppet video by 1938 Media of sweat-stained Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gone wild, screaming about how he smoked the Yahoo partnership, to every Softie I see. Because I am that sensitive.

A Twitter Stolen Docs Response–From a Puppet–That Actually Makes Sense

Kara Swisher in News on July 27, 2009 at 8:20 pm PT

Finally, the kind of response this whole increasingly silly circus around TechCrunch publishing the Twitter stolen documents deserves. Funny, rude and pretty much the only good way to excuse it all, via expletives deleted, courtesy of 1938 Media. Now, BoomTown can go back to real issues, such as obsessing about when the Yahoo deal with Microsoft will drop, if ever!

BoomTown Talks to a Puppet

Kara Swisher in News on May 21, 2008 at 10:21 am PT

The ubiquitous puppet interviewer (not) Shel Israel–who BoomTown has definitively determined is powered by the hand of the very funny Loren Feldman of 1938 Media–came to ATD HQ (a.k.a., the cottage behind my house) yesterday for a lovely chat.