5 posts and columns on Cake

Did You Get Your System Administrator a Cake Today?

in Enterprise on July 29, 2011 at 2:12 pm PT

You, uh, did know that today is System Administrator Appreciation Day, didn’t you?
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QOTD: Make Music For Fun, Not Profit

“Can you put food on the table with music? Probably not. I see music as a really great hobby for most people in five or 10 years. I see everybody I know, some of them really important artists, studying how to do other jobs.”

– Cake lead singer John McCrea talking to NPR, via Digital Music News. Showroom of Compassion, Cake’s most recent release, is the lowest-selling number-one album of all time.

Happy Groundhog Day: Some Lovely Punxsy Phil Video and More, of Course!

in News on February 2, 2010 at 3:19 pm PT

Every year on Groundhog Day, my friends–such as Liz and Treby, from when I was but a wee BoomTown (well, I am still wee)–call me with holiday greetings. Why? Because freakish child that I was, I actually threw an annual Groundhog Day fest at school, complete with a cake–I used a rabbit-shaped pan, cut off its ears and added slivered almonds as teeth. So, as I take off to bake another cake with the kids–passing on a noble tradition–here are some videos to enjoy.

Yahoo Content Model Gets Remixed as Product Development Is "Globally" Centralized

in News on February 20, 2009 at 5:45 am PT

Will Yahoo’s media properties fall flat with sweeping new changes that are afoot that will drastically change the way the company bakes its content offerings? Or will the ability to have a single, highly scaleable, centrally developed architecture make the media programming Yahoo delivers more responsive and flexible in the era of fast-twitch bloggers (all while cutting costs)? According to many sources inside and outside the company, product development for Yahoo’s heavily trafficked media operations–including its powerful News, Finance and Sports sites–is set to be moved under Ash Patel, who is EVP of the company’s Audience Product Division.
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They Will Survive–Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Talk Downturn!

in News on October 30, 2008 at 2:32 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown posted a video of star venture capitalist John Doerr’s 10 tips to start-ups for surviving the econalypse that he ticked off at a roundtable in Silicon Valley on Wednesday. Beside the words of wisdom from the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner, I also trolled for advice from the panel of well-known entrepreneurs I moderated at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn” event. The message: They will survive! (Cue the disco ball.)