6 posts and columns on The View

Viral Video: "The View" Vs. "The Talk"

in News on October 20, 2010 at 12:34 am PT

It’s a smackdown of chit-chatting ladies, as CBS’s “The Talk” debuted this week, in an attempt to grab audience from the powerhouse daytime ABC talk show “The View.” It’ll be hard, since those are some tough women on “The View,” which recently was in the spotlight after Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set in the middle of a segment with Fox News cable pundit Bill O’Reilly, after he impugned Muslims.

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Obama's BlackBerry: Tiny Contact List, Dull Mail, No Fun

in News on July 29, 2010 at 1:42 pm PT

When President Obama first took office, he pressed hard to keep his beloved BlackBerry and ultimately won permission to carry a model with beefed-up security features. Turns out he didn’t really win much. Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Obama said only 10 people have his number, and their email conversations are really boring. “I’ve got to admit, it’s no fun because they think that it’s probably going to be subject to the Presidential Records Act, so nobody wants to send me the real juicy stuff,” he said. Other tech notes from the interview: Obama said that the contents of the presidential iPod runs from Jay-Z to Maria Callas, and that “I don’t tweet on a regular basis….I think there’s an official president’s tweet, but some 20-year-old is doing a lot of the tweeting.”

Twitter Business Plan Count-Up: Snuggie-Tweet!

in News on March 6, 2009 at 6:46 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown decided to start a new “Twitter Business Plan Count-Up” because the fine folks over at the hot-as-Alabama-in-July start-up were taking too long to do so. Oh, they’ve been promising for a while to deliver the financial goods, but Twitter still has a devil-may-care attitude toward its lack of revenues. (Who do they think they are? General Motors?) Thus, my next idea: A Twitter-branded device and fleece blanket outfit that you wear and that vibrates every time you get tweeted.
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Five Geek Guys, Just Sittin' Around Talkin' About Online Media

in News on March 2, 2009 at 12:33 pm PT

Last week, I went to the 15th Stanford Accel Symposium, hosted by Stanford University’s MediaX and the VC firm Accel Partners. With the honking big title of “The Delta Conference: The Impact of 2008 Dramatic Events on the World of Digital Media and Technology,” it included a panel on online media with a stellar gang, all talking about microblogging, content and where it is all going in this economic environment. It was kind of like “The View,” except all guys in khakis and oxford shirts. You know, a typical Silicon Valley gathering. Here are video interviews with the panelists.
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The Yahoo-AOL Jabberfest Continues Ad Infinitum (Plus Some Jerry Yang Chitter-Chatter on Video)

in News on November 12, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

Last week–in a clear sign that BoomTown has spent way too much face time in front of the idiot box–I compared the endless bickering back-and-forth between Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to the annoying push-me-pull-you antics of Ross and Rachel on the television show, “Friends.” But the continuing discussions–oh, yes, there have been more this week–between Yahoo and AOL execs over the merger of their struggling online companies have their own TV comparison: The never-ending roundelay on “The View.” In other words: Blah, blah, blah. Chitter-chatter. Pointless arguing. Chin-scratching. More blah, blah. More chatter. Blah.