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Video: New MySpace Co-Presidents Hirschhorn and Jones Talk About the Past (Troubled!), Present (Work in Progress) and Future (Revival?)

Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2010 at 4:24 pm PT

On Monday, BoomTown traveled to Los Angeles for the day to finally check in with the new management at turmoil-plagued MySpace, Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Michael Jones. The unlikely pair are now ferreting away on a slow rollout of a plan to turn MySpace into a socially-charged music and entertainment hub. Here’s a video where they talk about it all, from corporate intrigue to what to do about declining traffic to–most of all and what unfortunately gets lost in all this mess–what the heck they are doing to innovate the product.

BoomTown Channels Miss Cleo: A Twitter Transaction? More Facebook Follies? And Will There Finally Be a Yahoo-Microsoft Deal?

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2009 at 4:42 am PT

This weekend on Twitter, someone paid BoomTown a compliment of a sort: “I read you because you are a solid fact-based reporter with a Miss Cleo intuition :)” Yipes, because of being fact-based and since I had brought her up in an originating tweet, I had to point out that the well-known-via-infomercials Psychic Friends Network shaman turned out to be a bit of a fraud, although she’s always entertaining, with her jaunty Jamaican accent (she was not, of course, from there). Nonetheless, it got me thinking about how I would predict what would result from all the deal-making that is suddenly in the air, after six months of ennui from the current economic downturn.