4 posts and columns on skate

FamilyFinds: Discount Deals Site Aimed at Families Launches With $5.75 Million Funding

in News on December 1, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

Even as Groupon is poised to sell itself to Google for badillions of dollars, the attack of the social buying clones continues. Today, it is the launch of FamilyFinds, a Santa Monica, Calif., start-up aimed at offering daily deals to families, with $5.75 million in funding to help it get going.

Surf’s Up? News Corp. Mulling Sale of “Action Sports” Channel Fuel TV.

in Media on October 29, 2009 at 11:52 am PT

News Corp. is reportedly interested in purchasing the Travel Channel from Cox for something like $800 million. Here’s one way to help pay for a small piece of that deal: Sell off Fuel TV, its modest surf, skate and snowboard-themed cable channel.
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Viral Videos: Something Old, Something New–But Still, Dancing Babies

in News on August 13, 2009 at 3:05 am PT

Here’s a new video that has been making the rounds recently featuring “Roller Babies,” which is essentially a computer-generated bunch of babies on skates doing a rap number. It’s a commercial for Evian Water, but BoomTown laughs every time I look at it anyway–probably because it reminds me of the most famous of all viral videos on the Internet: The Dancing Baby of 1997.
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The Economics of Skateboarding Videos

in News on March 2, 2009 at 12:05 pm PT

This weekend I wrote about the Berrics, a skateboarding Web site that was the sport’s most popular in January, thanks to an unusual competition free of ramps or handrails like you’d see on TV competitions. It revolves around a game called SKATE, which is a skateboarding version of the shot-for-shot basketball game HORSE. Skaters have been playing SKATE for at least two decades, and skaters of any skill level can play it, which helps explain the popularity of the contest.