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Paris Hilton Taps GroupMe for Her New TV Show

Liz Gannes in Social on June 27, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

The Oxygen Network’s new show “The World According to Paris” will soon start promoting tiny start-up GroupMe with an on-air TV spot to encourage private viewer conversations using the group texting service.

BoomTown Decodes Twitter's Denial-of-Service Blog Post (So You Don't Have To)

Kara Swisher in News on August 7, 2009 at 5:17 pm PT

This morning, in a blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone gave more of an explanation for the outage that the microblogging service endured due to a denial-of-service attack. Fortunately, BoomTown can read between the lines in order to decipher the secret message herein! Biz wrote: The Adventure Continues. Translation: By “adventure,” I mean yet-another-friggin’-Twitter-birdie-crisis.

Time Inc. and Getty Images Go Back to the Future With Life.com

Peter Kafka in Media on March 31, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Here’s a refreshingly retro take for a Web site launching in 2009: One that only features photos. Lots and lots of really interesting photos. Meet the new Life.com, a joint venture between Time Warner’s Time Inc. and Getty Images that launches today. Not too many bells and whistles, just seven million arresting images.

Loves It: Life Was Better When Martin Sheen Was "Fake" President (We're Not So Sure About Paris, Though)

Kara Swisher in News on October 9, 2008 at 12:34 pm PT

Famous-for-being-famous celebrity Paris Hilton continues her comic run for “fake” President of the United States, with a new online video for the Funny or Die comedy site. In the latest, Hilton consults the most famous of fake Presidents, actor Martin Sheen, who played President Jed Bartlett for many seasons on the NBC hit “The West Wing.” BoomTown really misses C.J. and the rest of the team.

The Simple Life: Gates and Seinfeld, the Hilton and Richie of Tech

John Paczkowski in News on September 12, 2008 at 8:53 am PT

The appeal of Fox’s reality show, “The Simple Life,” may have eluded you and me, but it has clearly struck a chord with Microsoft and its new ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, which seems to envision Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld as the Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie of tech. To wit, “New Family,” the second spot in the CP+B-produced campaign for Microsoft, which features Gates and Seinfeld moving in with a family of “real people” and connecting with them.

That's Hot: Paris Hilton Strikes Back at the "White-Haired Dude"

Kara Swisher in News on August 7, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

In a tempest-in-a-teapot political scandalette, Republican Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain used images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in a television ad attacking his Democratic opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, as a celebrity. It was tasteless and also offensive to Hilton and Spears, which seems an almost impossible task–way to go! Now, wasting no time in taking advantage of the brouhaha and drawing attention just where it should be–to herself, of course–Hilton did this clever video spoof for the Funny or Die comedy Web site.