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Tool for Creating iPhone and Android Games Now Speaks Windows as Well as Mac

in Mobile on January 25, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

The tool, used to build games like Bubble Ball and Doodle Dash, now allows game development to take place on Windows PCs as well as Macs.

Man Bites Dog! Web Publisher Pays Writers

in Media on January 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Financial chatter site Seeking Alpha, which has relied on free stories from thousands of contributors for the past seven years, shifts strategies.

Comcast Unit Finds New Use for the iPhone: Getting Work Done

in Mobile on December 30, 2010 at 12:45 pm PT

While plenty of people are using their iPhones and iPads to watch video, a unit of Comcast is betting that the devices can also play a role in helping professional video get onto the Internet. Though a niche product, it is the kind of application that many expect to see more of as businesses find ways of incorporating mobile devices into their office workflow.

Let a Zillion Users Blab: Yahoo Debuts "Contributor Network"

in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:01 am PT

Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a thousand flowers to bloom. Or, more to the point, blab. The Internet giant is “inviting people to contribute to many of its most popular sites with the launch of the Yahoo! Contributor Network, a new platform for people to publish their creative content on Yahoo!.”

Naked Brett Favre Won't Make Money for Nick Denton

in Media on October 7, 2010 at 10:27 am PT

Gawker Media’s Deadspin site says it will run naked photos of the Vikings quarterback, but Denton says it won’t be a profitable decision: “These things are always money-losers”

Video: BoomTown Gets Blogging Tips From Yahoo (Actually, From Its New Style Guide, That Is!)

in News on July 23, 2010 at 11:05 am PT

Yahoo has been trying of late to double down on its digital content hegemony–from buying social media maker Associated Content to a range of new initiatives such as Upshot, an effort to delve deeper into the new push to determine content selections based on search. And now, it’s also trying to take over the old-dead-trees part of the equation with the publication of a massive style guide about new media publishing, which came out earlier this month, titled “The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, And Creating Content For The Digital World.” Here’s my video about it.

A Sneak Peek at Ted Leonsis's New Book: "The Business of Happiness"

in News on January 19, 2010 at 5:24 am PT

This weekend, BoomTown got hold of a new book by former AOL exec and longtime entrepreneur Ted Leonsis, which is set to be released on Feb. 8 by Regnery Publishing. Titled “The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work,” Leonsis penned the book with former AOL PR head John Buckley. And like the ebullient Leonsis, its entertaining fulcrum is a list he often talks about, one he made after a scary plane experience 25 years ago of the 101 things he wanted to achieve before he died.
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TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!

in News on July 16, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty simple. Stolen equals stolen. But, because this is a “hot” issue and it concerns an even hotter Web 2.0 company–Holy traffic-gooser, Batman!–the debate will surely go on and on, even as the stolen information inevitably leaks its way out. Still, let’s not pretend what it is and is not.
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