Perez Hilton

Twitter Gets the Ken Burns Treatment From Funny or Die (Video)

Peter Kafka in Media on March 16, 2011 at 11:43 am PT

“What we do know for sure is that Ashton Kutcher invented Twitter in the year 2006.”

Viral Video: A Dilemma Solved (And Also for Perez Hilton?)

Kara Swisher in News on October 18, 2010 at 12:20 am PT

Here’s the new trailer for the upcoming movie “The Dilemma,” minus a joke that used the word “gay” in a negative manner. With the recent spate of bullyings of gay teens that have ended in tragedy, such a move is probably wise and not too surprising. More surprising was another, in which gossip blogger Perez Hilton vowed to stop being so mean on his popular (and very mean) Web site.

Site Builder Wetpaint Makes One for Itself Using the Demand Media Playbook

Peter Kafka in Media on September 6, 2010 at 4:00 am PT

Do we really need another pop-culture site? Sure, says Wetpaint CEO Ben Elowitz. His pitch: We’ll build a better mousetrap–one that covers every flickering detail about the likes of “Glee” and “The Jersey Shore”–using “data and science.”

Voices

Live Nation Entertainment's Irving Azoff Tweets Up a Storm

Ethan Smith, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on August 5, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Now we know why executives have handlers. Irving Azoff, Live Nation Entertainment’s colorful executive chairman, has long been known in the music industry for his short fuse. Now thanks to Twitter, anyone who feels like it can get a taste of Azoff’s legendary temper.

A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb?

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2009 at 5:25 am PT

Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft search service revealed on its blog last night that Perez Hilton–the irksome gossip blogger–beat out “Transformers” hottie Megan Fox and “Twilight” hottie-er Robert Pattinson for the top celebrity searched using Bing in 2009. Clearly, Bing’s algorithm needs some tweaking by real people.

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.

Finally, a Reason to Bring a Little More Lindsanity to BoomTown

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2009 at 5:11 am PT

Whatever her personal turmoil, troubled actress Lindsay Lohan–aka Lindsanity–has been the patron saint of the Web’s gossip sites, as well as magazines and more, most recently for the spectacular and restraining-orders-all-around breakup she has had with DJ Samantha Ronson. So where did Lohan go to get some control of the crazed situation back? Why the Internet, of course, with a pretty funny video of a spoof of an eHarmony online dating ad that is now a big hit on the comedy Web site, Funny or Die.

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.

App Aims to Up Social Status of Some Basic Cellphones

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on March 10, 2009 at 4:46 pm PT

Katie reviews iSkoot’s Notifier, an application designed to give basic cellphones smart-phone-like capabilities.

Cat Fight, Internet-Style: Perez Hilton Slaps the Face(book) of Not-BFF Mark Zuckerberg

Kara Swisher in News on February 17, 2009 at 3:36 am PT

In a BoomTown post last night noting that users should just get used to not having much control of their privacy and posted content online, in the wake of the controversy over Facebook’s Terms of Service changes, how could one leave out this gem of a digital diatribe on the issue by gossipmonger supreme, Perez Hilton? In an item yesterday, Hilton–who has gotten into a lot of copyright infringement legal trouble himself–asked his fans to boycott the fast-growing social-networking site anyway in one of my favorite pot-calling-kettle-black cyber-tussles yet.