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Following Path Address Book Uproar, Many Apps Clean Up Their Acts

Liz Gannes in Social on February 15 at 7:18 am PT

App makers, including giants like Twitter and Yelp, say they are updating the way they ask for users’ permission to share their contacts.

Honest: Jessica Alba’s Now an E-Commerce Geek (Video)

Kara Swisher in Commerce on January 25 at 10:05 am PT

Can a Hollywood star sell online consumers on a healthier lifestyle for them and their kids?

Exclusive: Disney Acquires “Sophisticated” Mommy Blog Platform Babble Media

Kara Swisher in Media on November 14, 2011 at 6:45 am PT

Organic arugula alert: Disney’s interactive unit is calling all urban hipster parents!

Hipster App Gives Digital Postcards a Spot on the Map

Liz Gannes in Social on October 5, 2011 at 3:18 pm PT

A new app called Hipster helps users post geo-tagged digital picture postcards from their iPhones.

Don't Rain on Microsoft's Ad Parade (Except It's Raining in Seattle, Natch!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT

BoomTown scrambled the All Things Digital jet (aka, United Airlines, Seat 7A) late last night to get up to Microsoft’s big event for its online advertising clients today. Called “Imagine 2011: Marketing Leadership Summit” and held at its Redmond, Wa. HQ, the two-day event is designed to wow peeps by trotting out a spate of strategery concepts those who buy advertising on Microsoft’s various digital offerings from its Bing search service to MSN to Xbox to Windows Phone 7.

Video: BoomTown Versus Texas Hipsters and Cheddar Cheese Cats at SXSW

Kara Swisher in News on March 14, 2011 at 12:18 pm PT

As it turned out, BoomTown did not succumb to hipster poisoning on my sojourn this past weekend to Austin, Texas and the famous South by Southwest festival. The annual gathering, which has interactive, music and film elements, started last week and is still going strong–fueled, as far as I can tell, by beer, blogging empanadas and excessive start-up hype.

Viral Video: "Attack the Block" and BoomTown Debut at SXSW

Kara Swisher in News on March 7, 2011 at 12:15 am PT

Like many a geek–and after a decade away–I’m headed to South by Southwest later this week. To get in the mood for the well-known multimedia festival in Austin, here’s one of the films making its debut this coming weekend. It’s called “Attack the Block,” and has the best tag line ever: “Inner City Versus Outer Space.” Which is just about how I am feeling about SXSW!

How the "Auto-Tune the News" Guys Turned the Bed Intruder's YouTube Fame into iTunes Money

Peter Kafka in Media on September 16, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

How a crime story turned into a viral video, which launched a much bigger viral video, which turned into a sort-of hit song. A Google/Apple success story.

The "Catfish"–A.K.A. the Other Facebook Movie–Dudes Speak!

Kara Swisher in News on September 3, 2010 at 10:37 am PT

Last night, BoomTown got to grill some “Catfish”–as in the three young hipsters responsible for the new documentary about a twisted online romance on Facebook. That was for a Q&A after a screening in San Francisco, where I got to talk to Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost and the film’s subject, Nev Schulman, about how they decided to make this rumination about identity in the digital age.

BoomTown Reimagines "Hamlet" Soliloquy for Foursquare's Crowley

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2010 at 12:49 pm PT

Much to the chagrin of valuation-hyping Silicon Valley VCs, Yahoo has still stayed in the running to acquire Foursquare, the hot social geolocation start-up, much longer than expected. So far, it’s been turned down flat, but turnabout could be fair play. It is apparently all in the hands of New York Web hipster and Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley now, whom one player said was doing “a very deft Hamlet act.” Could BoomTown resist a rewrite of Shakespeare? I could not!