8 posts and columns on adventure

Deep Diver James Cameron Talked Ocean Geekery Way Back at D8

in News on March 26 at 10:43 am PT

His love of the sea goes on (and deep this time).
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News Byte

Jonathan Shambroom Joins Zozi as COO Seeking New Adventures

in Commerce on March 20 at 8:59 am PT

Zozi, which ditched its roots as a daily deals company to focus on selling vacations and other adventures, has appointed Jonathan Shambroom to the role of COO. Previously, Shambroom was chief product officer at Ning, which was co-founded by Marc Andreessen and purchased by Glam Media last year. Zozi announced record growth in 2011 with a 700 percent increase in revenues, but was mum on specific revenue figures.

Zozi Gets Cozy With Celebrities to Separate Itself From the Groupon Clones

in Commerce on January 24 at 9:00 am PT

After slogging it out for two years in the daily deals business and facing competition from Groupon and hundreds of clones, Zozi believes it has started to find its niche.
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LivingSocial's Tim O'Shaughnessy About Local Deals and Not Being Groupon!

in News on October 19, 2010 at 8:09 am PT

Yesterday, before LivingSocial announced the acquisition of the social adventure company Urban Escapes, BoomTown sat down to talk with its CEO and co-founder Tim O’Shaughnessy. The entrepreneur has worked at AOL, as well as at Steve Case’s Revolution Health in Washington, D.C., before moving on to the local deals start-up that competes head-to-head with Groupon, which has garnered much of the attention in the space.

LivingSocial Buys Urban Escapes, As Social Discount Market Heats Up

in News on October 19, 2010 at 4:15 am PT

LivingSocial, the No. 2 social local deals start-up, announced today that it has bought Urban Escapes, a social adventure company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Washington, D.C.-based start-up now has about 10 million subscribers to its discount offers online, where it competes head-to-head with Chicago’s Groupon.

Exclusive: Former Yahoo and Microsoft Exec Dossett to Demand Media

in News on October 16, 2010 at 1:23 am PT

According to sources, Jeff Dossett–who has held top online jobs at both Yahoo and Microsoft–has taken a job at Demand Media as its SVP of Content Partnership Development. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand, which sources said is now prepping its road show for its upcoming IPO, has been picking up big company execs to add to its roster.

The New "Prince of Persia" Trailer: From Videogame to Jake's Awesome Abs?

in News on November 3, 2009 at 7:00 am PT

Here’s the new trailer for the upcoming videogame-to-live-action Disney fantasy adventure movie, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.” It still looks an awful lot like a videogame and is chock full of special effects–but the adaptation also seems to feature much in the way of shirtlessness and mascara-wearing on the part of star Jake Gyllenhaal.
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Departing Yahoo Media Exec Dossett to AdventureLink as CEO

in News on May 29, 2009 at 5:16 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote that Yahoo’s SVP North American Audience, Jeff Dossett, was leaving the Internet company after a very short stint there, because of personal reasons. But I also noted that sources said he was likely to quickly land at a start-up, and in fact, he has resigned from Yahoo to do just that. Dossett, who came to Yahoo from Microsoft in November, is taking a job as CEO of AdventureLink, an online site aimed at adventure travel and booking such trips.
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