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At 28, Few Tech Titans Could Hold a Candle to Zuck

Mike Isaac in Social on May 14 at 3:55 pm PT

Happy birthday, Mr. Zuckerberg. Where were your fellow tech luminaries when they turned 28?

High Five to AllThingsD.com — Happy Birthday to Us

Kara Swisher in Media on April 26 at 11:39 pm PT

No presents but your presence, dear readers.

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.