3 posts and columns on Alex Swisher

Bobbing for Apple, PC Hide-and-Seek and More: Swisher Boys Throw a Windows 7 Launch Party!

in News on October 13, 2009 at 5:17 am PT

To be totally honest, BoomTown was a little late getting a request in to Microsoft to host a Windows 7 Launch Party. Thus, no “special Signature Edition of Windows® 7 Ultimate and your very own Windows® 7 Party Pack to share with your guests” for a shindig at my house! So, because we admire the very gumption of Microsoft marketing types trying to make a software launch festive, which many have mocked mercilessly, the Swisher boys and I pressed on and created our own party to mark the launch of the much anticipated operating system software.
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Kara Visits Sundance and Interviews Hurley, Hastings and Kilar

in News on January 20, 2009 at 2:29 am PT

Here’s a longish video BoomTown did over the weekend at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. I was there to moderate a panel on Saturday titled, “Where Do We Go From Here? Icons of the Digital Age,” with YouTube co-founder and CEO Chad Hurley, Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings. I did interviews with each of them here, as well as a chat with my only indie celebrity friend, Jane Lynch, some scenes from the festival and an intro and outro from my own little stars, Louie and Alex Swisher.

MicroHoo: Some Web 2.0 Advice!

in News on April 23, 2008 at 1:26 am PT

Last night, BoomTown loaded the kids into the car–you try finding a sitter on a Tuesday night!–and went early to a pair of dot-com parties being thrown at some trendy spots in San Francisco related to the Web 2.0 Expo taking place this week. Our quest was to find out what some savvy Web 2.0 [...]