7 posts and columns on Shakespeare

BoomTown Reimagines "Hamlet" Soliloquy for Foursquare's Crowley

in News on April 19, 2010 at 12:49 pm PT

Much to the chagrin of valuation-hyping Silicon Valley VCs, Yahoo has still stayed in the running to acquire Foursquare, the hot social geolocation start-up, much longer than expected. So far, it’s been turned down flat, but turnabout could be fair play. It is apparently all in the hands of New York Web hipster and Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley now, whom one player said was doing “a very deft Hamlet act.” Could BoomTown resist a rewrite of Shakespeare? I could not!

Video: New MySpace Co-Presidents Hirschhorn and Jones Talk About the Past (Troubled!), Present (Work in Progress) and Future (Revival?)

in News on March 9, 2010 at 4:24 pm PT

On Monday, BoomTown traveled to Los Angeles for the day to finally check in with the new management at turmoil-plagued MySpace, Co-Presidents Jason Hirschhorn and Michael Jones. The unlikely pair are now ferreting away on a slow rollout of a plan to turn MySpace into a socially-charged music and entertainment hub. Here’s a video where they talk about it all, from corporate intrigue to what to do about declining traffic to–most of all and what unfortunately gets lost in all this mess–what the heck they are doing to innovate the product.

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Shakespeare Quotes, Version 2.0

in News on February 5, 2010 at 1:19 pm 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.)

A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun

in The Mossberg Solution on October 20, 2009 at 2:54 pm PT

Goby.com aims to take the guesswork out of finding leisure activities.
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Why Shakespeare Was So Prolific.

in News on October 7, 2009 at 4:11 pm 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.)

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‘Twitterature’ to Hit the Bookstores

in News on June 24, 2009 at 12:31 pm PT

Do you hear that? It’s the sound of Shakespeare, rolling over in his grave. That’s because Penguin Classics is publishing a Cliff’s Notes-style book about literature by two University of Chicago freshmen in which they summarize the great literary works–writing entirely in tweets.

Shortcovers, Iceberg Put Latest e-Books On Your Cellphone

in Personal Technology on January 14, 2009 at 6:04 pm PT

Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader has been a solid success. The device can access a catalog of over 200,000 digital books, including most current best sellers, according to Amazon. Its sharp screen, built-in downloading and long battery life have overcome a relatively high price and some poor hardware-design features.
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