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BoomTown's Short List of Yahoo CEOs (Sorry Jerry, but Fortune Favors the Prepared)

in News on June 17, 2008 at 4:00 am PT

As Yahoo continues to be in limbo, pressure is sure to mount heavily on its CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang, and it is not a stretch to imagine he will not remain in the top job at the troubled company for the long term. So who would be good to replace him? I have six candidates I like, so here’s my short list (and remember, the last time I made one for the job of the No. 2 leader for Facebook, its current COO Sheryl Sandberg was high on my list).
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Kara Visits Hayden Black of "Goodnight Burbank"

in News on June 17, 2008 at 12:37 am PT

BoomTown just spent a few days in Los Angeles recently, and will be there a lot more over the next year, part of a new vision quest in search of what makes great original content on the Web. And what better way to start than with Hayden Black, creator of two really interesting Web series: a behind-the-scenes spoof of a local news broadcast called “Goodnight Burbank” and “abigail’s ‘x-rated’ teen diary,” in which Black plays a very believable teen girl.
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Striking Out on Creating an Internet Hit

in News on November 7, 2007 at 3:23 am PT

So when, if ever, will there be a truly bona fide Internet hit? And please, pretty please, it just can’t be “lonelygirl15″ (pictured below) and some clever music videos. The lack of lasting and profitable professional content online is once again in sharp relief with the writers’ strike now taking place in Hollywood. In a [...]