7 posts and columns on Shelby Bonnie

Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie’s Whiskey Media

in Media on March 15 at 9:30 am PT

Can’t we all just get along? Yes! Hollywood grabs a piece of Silicon Valley content tech.
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Digital Marketing Start-Up Thismoment Raises $7.3 Million From Sierra Ventures

in Media on November 15, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Another day, another pile of funding for a social marketing start-up.

Whiskey Media's (And Former CNET CEO) Shelby Bonnie Talks Content and More!

in News on May 20, 2010 at 12:39 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown caught up with Shelby Bonnie, the former CEO of CNET who is now running Whiskey Media, the social publishing start-up. Sausalito, Calif.-based Whiskey is debuting its latest site today, called Screened, focused on video entertainment, which will combine both professional and user-generated content, much as its other four sites–Anime, Vice, Giant Bomb, Comic Vine and Tested–do. It’s yet another twist on the creation and distribution of content and another example of how quickly the publishing industry is changing.

Yahoo CEO Countdown, 26 Days to Go: As Chernin Declines, Will a Dark Horse Emerge?

in News on December 5, 2008 at 7:24 am PT

With Yahoo board Chairman Roy Bostock reportedly assuring investors and others that the company will have a CEO in place by the end of the year, it seems prudent for BoomTown to initiate an official Yahoo CEO Countdown. After all, this column had a 100-Day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest to mark the time that Jerry Yang said he needed to give Yahoo a top-to-bottom look-see when he took over last summer as CEO. So here’s today’s update: No Peter Chernin and a lot of thorny issues for other candidates.

More CEO Choices for Yahoo: Freston, Jordan, Bonnie and Two Rosenblatts!

in News on November 19, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

BoomTown might have been remiss in my post yesterday on top candidates for the Yahoo CEO job, in the wake of news that Jerry Yang was stepping down, by leaving out several key possibilities. Yesterday’s roster included News Corp.’s Peter Chernin, Google’s Tim Armstrong, Kevin Johnson of Juniper Networks and also two Yahoo board members, among others. So here is an addendum to my initial list–all of whom are Yahoo outsiders, the likely choice versus more tarnished insiders.

Would Ray Ozzie Take On(line) for the Microsoft Team?

in News on July 25, 2008 at 4:15 am PT

One thing is absolutely true: It is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and only Ballmer who knows for sure whom he is most interested in to take over the dicey job of head of the software giant’s long-suffering online services business. But there is a movement afoot among its developers and other execs at Microsoft to push for Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie, who replaced Founder Bill Gates in the job just over two years ago.

Who Will Be Microsoft's Next Online Chief? McAndrews? Miller? BoomTown?

in News on July 24, 2008 at 4:22 am PT

BoomTown was all busy trying to think of execs to replace Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, as pressure mounts on him to right the troubled Internet company. But now, Yang’s position feels safer than ever and it’s his nemesis–Microsoft–that needs a new leader for its long-stumbling online services business. Microsoft is already been cracking, according to sources, with a wish list of internal and external candidates that CEO Steve Ballmer is now considering.