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Smithsonian Brings Classic Arcade Games to Life (Video)

Ina Fried in Media on March 24 at 9:00 am PT

Festivities highlighted the opening of a videogame art exhibit at the Smithsonian.

Here Are Some More Yahoo CEO Choices: Liddell, Rosenblatt, Desmond

Kara Swisher in News on December 27, 2011 at 4:12 am PT

Let’s throw a few more names on the fire!

HuffPost and TED Will Ring Out the Year With an Online Idea-Thon

Kara Swisher in Media on December 1, 2011 at 8:20 am PT

Get your big-thinking cap on.

Video Meme: Hallelujah for Flash Mobs!

Liz Gannes in Social on December 23, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

Flash mobs: They’re no longer elite events for cool kids with secret passwords. This holiday season has seen a remarkable run of flash mobs in North America (and subsequently on YouTube), with both participants and audience members eager to partake in an increasingly democratized art form and then post their experiences online.

Richard Branson's iPad App: $2.99, Instructions Included. You'll Need Them.

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2010 at 4:29 am PT

It’s a magazine app! With no magazine! But it’s still pretty similar to other magazine apps you’ve seen before. Click through for instructions (!) and a jaw-dropping photo of a dude going over a waterfall in a kayak.

Digital Cameras Improve Zooms, HD Function

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 9, 2010 at 2:26 pm PT

Katie compares digital cameras for potential buyers as they begin their search for gifts during the holiday season.

Viral Video: Kanye West's 34-Minute Music Video (No, Really!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

You have to hand it to the ego-soaked imagination of singer Kanye West, who has debuted what appears to be the longest music video of all time for his song “Runaway.” It’s not just his Twitter rants that are wild, as you will find after digesting this gem–an art film, really.

Twitter for the iPad Says Hello!

Kara Swisher in News on September 1, 2010 at 9:19 pm PT

BoomTown does not plan to get into the endless so-and-so launches an Apple iPad app news cycle, because it is not really news, except to the more breathless fanboy tech bloggers. But Twitter’s intro of one tonight in the App Store is probably more important than most. “Twitter for iPad,” said the company, “makes it even easier for people to explore Tweets and discover new content and accounts on Twitter.” We’ll reserve judgement on that.

Pig-Nibbling Inside 11 Giant Imaginations: The Latest Glimpse of Glitch

Kara Swisher in News on August 23, 2010 at 9:44 am PT

Here is some video of Glitch–the new game that Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield is in the midst of creating from the Vancouver HQ of his Tiny Speck start-up. Butterfield showed me the latest iteration of the game, which takes place inside the minds of 11 giants. Including, oddly enough, a pig that will give up some meat if you nibble it, but walks merrily away after.