Jonathan Kaplan

There’s Some Cheese in My Tech: Jonathan Kaplan’s The Melt Opens Its Doors

Liz Gannes in Commerce on August 29, 2011 at 1:13 am PT

The first of Flip videocamera creator Jonathan Kaplan’s The Melt line of grilled cheese restaurants, first announced at this year’s D9 conference, will open in San Francisco on Tuesday.

Here’s Why Sequoia Thinks Melt Is Worth Millions: The D9 Demo (Video)

Peter Kafka in D9 on June 19, 2011 at 10:11 am PT

In the fall of 2008, Sequoia Capital declared “RIP: Good Times.” Flash forward to present tense: Sequoia is now putting millions into The Melt, a new grilled cheese shop chain from former Flip CEO Jonathan Kaplan.

Digital Grilled Cheese D9 Poll Results Are In: “The Kara” Edges Out “The Walt”

Kara Swisher in D9 on June 8, 2011 at 2:34 pm PT

Personally, I preferred “The Walt” over “The Kara.” But the attendees of the ninth D: All Things Digital conference seemed to like the grilled cheese sandwich made of “sharp” cheddar over more “experienced” gruyere, courtesy of a new start-up demo called Melt.

Jonathan Kaplan Still Doesn’t Know Exactly Why Cisco Killed the Flip (Video)

Arik Hesseldahl in D9 on June 1, 2011 at 10:17 am PT

Jonathan Kaplan still doesn’t know exactly why Cisco Systems opted to shut down its Flip Digital video camera unit rather than selling it. But he has a pretty good guess.

Video: After Cisco Sacrifices His Baby to the Gods of Wall Street, Flip Founder Jon Kaplan Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on April 12, 2011 at 1:08 pm PT

Right after BoomTown heard the sad news this morning that Cisco was jettisoning its Flip digital video camera division–part of a transparent effort to assure Wall Street that it was no longer serious about its wacky foray into the consumer market–I lobbed in a call to its founder Jonathan Kaplan to get him on video talking about the loss. The Flip, of course, has been my go-to tool to harass and annoy Silicon Valley moguls, since it appeared on the scene many years ago. The technique for the simple device was to essentially stick it up someone’s nose until they cried “Uncle!” and told me what I wanted to know.

Cisco's SlideHD Debuts: A Video Encounter of the Flip Kind

Kara Swisher in News on April 12, 2010 at 9:01 pm PT

Tonight, Cisco unveiled the latest version in its popular and innovative Flip digital video camera line, the SlideHD. The new device, which can record up to four hours of HD video and store up to 12 hours of content, has a dramatic slide-up touchscreen and a slide navigation bar. Here’s a video of BoomTown’s old Flips meeting the new kid in town.

Behind the Scenes at D@CES Event and Party (Including a Geek Chat With Punky Brewster!)

Kara Swisher in News on January 11, 2010 at 3:25 pm PT

Here’s a lovely video BoomTown did behind the scenes at our interview event and after-party at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last Friday, including interviews with Cisco Flip unit head Jonathan Kaplan, Billshrink’s Peter Pham, Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro and–drum roll–former “Punky Brewster” star Soleil Moon Frye, who was there for Kodak. Yippie! Grossaroo! Holy Macanoli! Punky Power!

Pure Digital: The Full D7 Demo Video

Beth Callaghan in D7 on June 15, 2009 at 10:23 am PT

Continuing our posting of the full sessions, in the order of their presentation at the D: All Things Digital conference in late May, here is the demo by Pure Digital, maker of the Flip digital camera.

Pure Digital: The Full D7 Demo

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 15, 2009 at 7:59 am PT

Continuing our posting of the full sessions, in order of their presentation at the D: All Things Digital conference in late May, here is a video of the demo of new personal channels from Pure Digital, maker of the Flip digital camera. Which is, as many readers of this column know, a key BoomTown accessory–with which I make my wobbly videos annoying various tech mandarins. Pure Digital debuted its first Flip at a previous D conference and was recently sold to Cisco.