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Viral Video: Happy 100th Birthday to IBM!

Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 12:33 am PT

Here is a very clever video by IBM for its centennial birthday in June, using 100 people representing every year of innovations in its existence. While the company it is now and the company it was then are very different, it still deserves kudos for all it has given to the tech industry. And, of course, for its perfect motto: Think.

Happy 10th Birthday, Wikipedia! What's Next? (Video)

Liz Gannes in Social on January 14, 2011 at 10:04 am PT

Wikipedia now seems like an enduring institution on the Web, but the site was only founded 10 years ago, tomorrow. In this video interview, Wikipedia Executive Director Sue Gardner tells us how far the site has come, and what’s next.

“Nightline” Gives YouTube a Fifth Birthday Present

Peter Kafka in Media on May 13, 2010 at 6:45 am PT

YouTube, it turns out, is a really big, popular video site, and it has minigolf in the office. Plus a bonus video! Meet Greyson Michael Chance, the next Justin Bieber.

A BoomTown Bier-Trinken Visit to the Gourmet Haus Staudt, Home of iPhonegate! (Can You Say Oktoberfest in April?)

Kara Swisher in News on April 27, 2010 at 5:33 am PT

When BoomTown was kibitzing with SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg about where to meet up this week for a chat to catch up, we decided to forgo the obvious and instead choose the complete Silicon Valley cliche of the moment. Destination: Redwood City and the now-infamous Gourmet Haus Staudt. As in, the the beer garden behind the German grocery store where the iPhone 4G prototype was snatched from a birthday-celebrating Apple engineer by person still unknown and sold to the now-police-shookdown Gizmodo gadget site. Here’s our Gemütlichkeit travelogue!

A Modest Proposal: Please Leave the Lost iPhone Dude Alone

Kara Swisher in News on April 23, 2010 at 7:37 am PT

Last night, I tweeted: “Good god, pls stop egregiously using this poor lost iphone dude for cheap traffic…sadly, I have to link to explain: http://bit.ly/cK28zb.” The link led to yet another post on the Web site Gizmodo, owned by Gawker Media, which bought a stolen prototype iPhone 4G from a still unnamed man who filched it after an Apple engineer left it in a Silicon Valley bar by accident. I’m not holding my breath for the Web site to do the right thing.

BoomTown in D.C. to Say Happy 25th Birthday to .Com and Wary Hello to Broadband Plan

Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2010 at 7:54 am PT

Last night, I jetted east to Washington, D.C., for an unusual confluence of events: The 25th anniversary of the .com Internet domain name and the Federal Communications Commission’s release of the National Broadband Plan. Both are set for tomorrow in the nation’s capital and both concern the impact of the Web on the United States in the past and the future. And after a quarter-century, let’s hope the federal government finally starts to take the Internet seriously.

In Case You Missed It: The CNBC Interview With Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz (Yes, She Disses Facebook, and No Trinket-Calling!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 5, 2010 at 2:45 am PT

Earlier this week, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was all over the place talking up the company on the occasion of its 15th birthday. Here’s a video of a longish interview she did with CBNC where she cracks wise a lot, but says little. My favorite part: When the interviewer oddly asks if Yahoo is a trinket and Bartz pipes up that it is a bracelet!

Yahoo Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary: Now, Is It Finally Time to Buy AOL as a Gift to Itself?

Kara Swisher in News on March 2, 2010 at 8:44 am PT

Today, Yahoo is turning 15, which makes it approximately 105 in Internet years. All joking aside–especially since that makes BoomTown 134 years old–reaching this mark is both an accomplishment and a burden, with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz pushing forward a very deliberate transformation and employing a fix-it management style in her tenure at Yahoo of just over a year. While the seasoned exec has most certainly gotten the trains running better, some are now wondering if there needs to be a more dramatic facelift at Yahoo to hurl it forward at even greater speed.

He Had a Dream: So, Have an Inspiring MLK Jr. Day (and ATD Will Return Tomorrow)

Kara Swisher in News on January 18, 2010 at 4:28 am PT

All Things Digital is not planning on publishing today, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthdate holiday. Until we return tomorrow, please listen to the famous “I Have a Dream” speech that King delivered at the Lincoln Memorial, which is in its entirety after the jump. As you will see, it is as resonant today as it was when spoken on Aug. 28, 1963, so thank goodness you can see it instantly on the Web.

Gandhi's Head Starring as the "G" in Google Today

Kara Swisher in News on October 2, 2009 at 1:14 am PT

For the last month or so, the Google homepage has played with the famous colored-letter logo by morphing it into a sci-fi in-joke and later adding another “l” to indicate the company’s 11th birthday. Now, a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi–the Indian leader whose 140th birthday anniversary is today–has become the “G” in the logo. Yes, indeed, the head of the man known as “The Father of a Nation” is a letter.