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BoomTown Talks Girl Geek at Facebook Hack Event

in News on September 13, 2010 at 8:08 am PT

This Saturday, BoomTown gassed up the Mini and motored on down to Facebook’s newest building for a Developer Garage and Hackathon, which the social networking giant did in partnership with Girls in Tech. The goal was to focus on women developers, although there were plenty of dudes in attendance, as per usual at any all-night nerd-off. Facebook, feeling empowered, gave me the stage. Oops!

Kara Visits Meebo!

in News on March 18, 2008 at 2:22 am PT

Last week, I visited Meebo, the Web-based instant messaging company, at their headquarters on Castro Street in Mountain View, Calif. Why? Well, like a lot of Web 2.0 companies, because it’s a hot and hyped little start-up with a fast-growing audience for its–wait for it!–widgets! But Meebo makes actually useful widgets, such as its flagship unified instant messaging offering. Thus, in an endless sea of useless and juvenile apps, that immediately makes BoomTown happy and interested. And, backed by Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, it also has a solid team, although it is one still in search of a much more solid business plan.