9 posts and columns on queen

God Save the Queen: The Arianna Invasion of Britain Begins!

in Media on July 6, 2011 at 2:49 am PT

The U.K. version of the Huffington Post, which has been expected, went live today. It is the site’s first major international expansion beyond North America (Canada was first). And, while the content is aimed at the audience there, it will still have the usual HuffPo mix of saucy news, videos and blogs. Except with a charming British accent.
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Queen Sarah and Duchess BoomTown Talk Yahoo Layoffs on KQED Radio

in News on December 15, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Yesterday, TechCrunch Senior Editor Sarah Lacy and I went on Michael Krasny’s Forum show on San Francisco’s KQED public radio station to talk about the Yahoo layoffs earlier this week. During the talk, Lacy declared herself queen, so I dubbed myself a duchess. Thus, we are blog site royalty, which I compared to being the rulers of Latvia. Sorry, Latvia!

Another One Bites the Dust at Yahoo: Chief Technologist Sam Pullara Departs for Benchmark

in News on March 19, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Yahoo Chief Technologist Sam Pullara is leaving the company to become an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital. BoomTown inquired about the departure earlier in the week and got a call from Yahoo PR today confirming the move. He’s the second major exec to leave Yahoo for greener pastures in a week. The company’s head of North American Revenue, Joanne Bradford, quit Monday to take a top job at social media start-up Demand Media.

Viral Video: The Muppets Do "Bohemian Rhapsody"

in News on November 25, 2009 at 12:51 am PT

While BoomTown is trapped on, oops, fully enjoying, an overnight train trip to Portland for the holidays (and just beginning to sweat from not enough broadband), here’s a very funny video of the Muppets doing Queen. The puppets–part of Disney’s Muppets Studio–just got themselves a channel on YouTube and this is one of their most popular posts so far.
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Kara Visits the Oxford Social Media Convention: I Say Twitt-er, You Say Twitt-ah

in News on September 18, 2009 at 6:40 am PT

Today, BoomTown has traveled to England to see the Queen, but mostly to attend and speak at a conference at the University of Oxford, titled “Oxford Social Media Convention: Assessing the Evolution, Impact and Potential of Social Media.” In other words: What is up with this Twitter thing, but in a British accent.
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The Queen's Apps

in News on April 3, 2009 at 11:00 am PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Kara Visits London (to See the Queen Again)

in News on September 22, 2008 at 12:42 am PT

Actually, although BoomTown is staying right around the corner from Buckingham Palace in Mayfair, I am in London on my way to the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam later this week, where I will be interviewing some digital leaders onstage. We’re still working on rolling out a version of our D: All Things Digital conference in Europe next fall, so it’s important to get a sense of what is going on here in the digital sector and, of course, what is not.