3 posts and columns on ski

Viral Video: Larry and Sergey Buzz You Up, While Zuckerberg Is Board

in News on June 12, 2010 at 12:55 am PT

How in the world did BoomTown miss these very funny new puppets from 1938 Media of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? Here are the videos.

Social Media Storytelling at Sundance: MySpace, YouTube and Oprah Dudes–Also, My Twitter-Hating Mom–Discuss!

in News on January 25, 2010 at 7:01 am PT

On Friday, BoomTown was back at the Sundance Film Festival for the fifth time for my annual techie panel at the famous independent film confab. This year, we opened the New Frontier on Main series with a session titled “Spotlight on Social Media: Successful Strategies for Storytellers.” Here are my interviews on this and more with three of the panelists, as well as thoughts from my mother, who most recently was bashing Twitter in this column. She’s at it again, although she said she would be happy to watch a movie via magic glasses.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow… 3-D Digital Ski Slopes Even Cooler

in News on February 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Wishing I had had the foresight to head up to the Sierras in California before they finally got a ton of snow dumped on them this past week, I was fiddling around the Web looking for various ski sites as a way to approximate being there. And, like all things in mapping, the best way to see slopes is now in 3-D, the technology that is going to become more and more prevalent on the mostly flat Internet in the years ahead–and well beyond obvious applications.
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