8 posts and columns on idea

Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook’s Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

in News on March 12 at 3:00 pm PT

Even if increasingly irrelevant, being there at the start apparently has to count for something, says Yahoo in its allegations against the social networking giant.
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HuffPost and TED Will Ring Out the Year With an Online Idea-Thon

in Media on December 1, 2011 at 8:20 am PT

Get your big-thinking cap on.
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Winklevii: How Can We Miss You If You Won't Go Away? (Plus the Full Court Ruling)

in News on April 11, 2011 at 11:27 am PT

It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully. So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a previous court challenge, they’ll have to settle for $65 million. Actually, $100 million, which is how much shares in Facebook have appreciated since the pair and also Divya Narendra settled with the social networking giant.

Winklevii Vs. Zuck: Who'd You Rather?

in News on October 5, 2010 at 11:18 am PT

The Facebook movie might have performed slightly below box office expectations last weekend for Sony movie unit Columbia Pictures, but it certainly has invaded the mainstream zeitgeist. Still, BoomTown was quite surprised to see a mention of “The Social Network” on one of my favorite celebrity sites, TMZ.com.

Meet Flipboard: Mike McCue Talks About Stealth "Social Magazine" Start-Up That Just Nabbed $10.5 Million in Funding

in News on July 20, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT

Say hello to an innovative new social magazine concept called Flipboard, which is attempting to make the social networking universe more accessible, consumable and, perhaps most importantly, visually arresting via a rich app on the Apple iPad. Co-founded by longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mike McCue and former Apple iPhone engineer Evan Doll in January, Flipboard decloaked itself tonight, announcing both a $10.5 million funding from top Silicon Valley power players and also the acquisition of Ellerdale, a relevancy search engine for the real-time Web.

Mark Cuban Makes the Best Point of All About Charging for Content: Use Your Imagination!

in News on August 10, 2009 at 6:17 am PT

Yesterday–in a somewhat rambling and also riveting blog post about charging for content–serial entrepreneur and perennial gadfly Mark Cuban made a very important point that execs at every large media company should take to heart as they try to cope with the digital challenge. Use your noggins, why dontcha? He also threw out some very good ideas for doing so.
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The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500

in News on March 25, 2009 at 3:14 pm PT

The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of “Generation F”–the Facebook Generation. At a minimum, they’ll expect the social environment of work to reflect the social context of the Web, rather than as is currently the case, a mid-20th-century Weberian bureaucracy.