Federated Media Buys Lijit Networks

A medium-sized online advertising company buys a smaller one.
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Online Shopping on the Side

Walt reviews Digital Folio, free software that lets you gather online shopping products to compare retailer prices.
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Microsoft Opens Colorado Retail Store in Wyoming

Lone Tree, Colorado, is not a city in Wyoming, guys.
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Phone-Controlled Robot Ball Set to Roll Around CES

There will be a lot of quirky gadgets rolling through Las Vegas as the Consumer Electronics Show this week in addition to all the big-time announcements such as new phones, TVs and tablets. Among those to keep an eye out for is a little robotic ball from Orbotix, a seven-person start-up from Boulder, Colo.

Wallow in Microsoft's Q4 Glory: The Show-Me-the-Money Slides

As it turned out, Microsoft blew past even the sunniest Wall Street expectations in its fourth-quarter earnings, spurred by a robust PC upgrade cycle. BoomTown was on a plane jetting to Aspen for the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference, so I missed liveblogging the conference call this afternoon (sorry, Frank!). Here are the software giant’s slides of the financial results to peruse at your leisure.

Blue Mountain Arts' Polis of Web 1.0 and His First Year as a Congressman in Web 2.0

While in Washington, D.C., last week, one of BoomTown’s last stops was at the office of Colorado Democratic Congressman Jared Polis on Capitol Hill. Although I usually try to avoid politicians at all costs, it was terrific to check in with Polis, who was one of the more interesting players in the Web 1.0 scene. Here’s the video.

CBS Digital Boss Quincy Smith’s Not-Quite Exit Interview: “Hulu’s a Great Service. That’s Part of the Problem.”

The man who helped shape CBS’s standalone Web video strategy explains himself, for the record.
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Geek in Black: Barry Sonnenfeld Comes Out From Behind the Camera to…Vlog?

For many years now, one of our regular attendees at the D: All Things Digital conference has been award-winning movie and television director, producer and writer Barry Sonnenfeld, who is–as it turns out–a not-so-closeted geek in his spare time with a gadget column for Esquire magazine called “The Digital Man.” Now he is branching out to a vlog about his geek passions on Crackle, which will appear every two weeks from wherever he is–either from his homes in East Hampton, N.Y. or Telluride, Colo., or from Hollywood sets.
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Sequoia's Voter Consternation Drive

Fantastic. Here we are, just two weeks before the 2008 presidential election and the integrity and accuracy of some of the electronic voting machines that will determine its outcome are in question. Again.

Sequoia’s Voter Consternation Drive

Fantastic. Here we are, just two weeks before the 2008 presidential election and the integrity and accuracy of some of the electronic voting machines that will determine its outcome are in question. Again.