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Amazon, LivingSocial Bring Back the Bubble! Or at Least the Awesome "Volume" SNL Ad

Peter Kafka in Media on January 19, 2011 at 11:54 am PT

How do you make money giving away $20 for $10? “Saturday Night Live” explained this a long, long time ago.

Return With Us Now to Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear When Chips Sales Were on the Rise and the Webvan IPO Seemed Like a Good Idea

John Paczkowski in News on May 7, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

2010 will likely be a better year for the semiconductor industry than 2009. In fact, it may turn out to have the best growth in nearly a decade. According to research house iSuppli Corp, worldwide chip revenue is expected to rise to $300.3 billion, up 30.6 percent from $229.9 billion in 2009. The last time the industry saw this kind of growth was in 2000, when revenue spiked 36.7 percent, driven upward by the same forces that made putting money into the Pets.com IPO seem like a wise idea.

Why Robert Scoble Is Wronger About "2010 Web": A BoomTown Translation!

Kara Swisher in News on June 2, 2009 at 12:37 pm PT

Oh, Scooby-Don’t… You could not be more wrong in your post last week–titled, “Why Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg are wrong about naming Web 3.0 ‘Web 3.0′”–about Walt and I being wrong about naming Web 3.0 “Web 3.0″ in an essay we posted at the start of our D: All Things Digital conference, which took place last week. I know writing “Kara Swisher,” “Walt Mossberg” and “Wrong” is well-nigh irresistible, but your solution of calling the digital era we are in the “2010 Web” is equally confusing and incorrect.

Want to Watch the Media Hug Twitter in Real-Time? This Is the Site for You.

Peter Kafka in Media on April 16, 2009 at 10:14 am PT

So why is Twitter growing so fast, anyway? Bunch of reasons. But one of them is that the media–from lil’ ol’ bloggers like me to the most mainstream of mainstream media–keep promoting it, for free, via nonstop coverage. And when we’re not doing that, we Tweet ourselves. See for yourself.

Twitter's No-Biz-Model Stone on "The Colbert Report"

Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2009 at 9:12 am PT

Here’s the video of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone with Stephen Colbert last night on the Comedy Central cable television show. Stone–the spokesmodel for the hot microblogging service–does very well and is even charming, even though Colbert nails the problems of the San Francisco-based Twitter cold in the lively interview. “How would you make money?” asked Colbert, who also noted that Stone’s unusual name sounded like a Flintstones character. No surprise–that question put Stone between a rock and a hard place.

Forrester CEO: Here's a Little Song I Wrote …

John Paczkowski in News on October 27, 2008 at 11:09 am PT

Wonderful news. The recession’s impact on the tech sector will not be nearly as pronounced as its predecessor’s, which turned Webvan’s refrigerated Freightliner trucks into hipster moving vans and made the Pets.com mascot piddle itself into oblivion like a submissive puppy. That’s the word from Forrester Research CEO George Colony, who believes the current downturn will be far kinder to tech than the one that heralded The Great Dark Time of 2001-2003.

Forrester CEO: Here’s a Little Song I Wrote …

John Paczkowski in News on October 27, 2008 at 11:09 am PT

Wonderful news. The recession’s impact on the tech sector will not be nearly as pronounced as its predecessor’s, which turned Webvan’s refrigerated Freightliner trucks into hipster moving vans and made the Pets.com mascot piddle itself into oblivion like a submissive puppy. That’s the word from Forrester Research CEO George Colony, who believes the current downturn will be far kinder to tech than the one that heralded The Great Dark Time of 2001-2003.