5 posts and columns on buzzword

Liveblogging Yahoo Q4 Earnings: "Encouraging" Is the New Black

in News on January 25, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT

BoomTown was looking over Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, as I blogged the conference call after Yahoo released its fourth-quarter earnings after markets closed today. It’s pretty! But Yahoo’s revenue growth–still, not so much. Yahoo exec, though, declared the results “encouraging.”

Buzzword Alert to All Geeks: Please Replace "Real-Time" Web With "Right-Time" Web STAT!

in News on April 16, 2010 at 12:38 am PT

Earlier this week at Twitter’s Chirp conference, Venrock’s David Pakman seemed to strike a chord by coining a new buzzword that deserves to gain some level of acceptance. On a panel BoomTown moderated, in answer to my question about what kinds of investments and trends he is looking for in the social networking space, Pakman said he was looking for someone who could deliver “right-time” information rather than real-time data. He’s actually right.

Windows Cloud Rolling In

in News on October 2, 2008 at 11:00 am PT

You Would Have Had a Better Shot With "Crap Computing™"

in News on August 18, 2008 at 11:28 am PT

Cloud computing providers need not worry about finding an alternative buzzword to describe their services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused Dell a trademark on the phrase “cloud computing.”

You Would Have Had a Better Shot With “Crap Computing™”

in News on August 18, 2008 at 11:28 am PT

Cloud computing providers need not worry about finding an alternative buzzword to describe their services. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has refused Dell a trademark on the phrase “cloud computing.”