7 posts and columns on wedding

Geek-tastic! Twitter Queen Kim Kardashian Reportedly to Wed at Eric Schmidt’s SoCal Estate (Or at Kleiner Partner’s Luxe Crib).

in Media on August 17, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT

Here’s a delicious juxtaposition you don’t get often: Various reports indicate that reality show empress Kim Kardashian’s upcoming wedding to New Jersey Nets basketball player Kris Humphries will be held at either the Montecito estate of Google’s Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt or that of a VC legend.
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Save The Date! Smart Wedding Invitations Use Smartphones

in Mobile on May 28, 2011 at 3:20 pm PT

With wedding Web sites now the norm, some folks are looking for new ways to push the state of the art when it comes to prenuptial technology. One couple is experimenting with using QR codes, special bar codes that can be red by a smartphone, to offer guests more than the standard save-the-date information.
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‘With This App, I Thee Wed…’

in The Digital Solution on February 1, 2011 at 2:57 pm PT

Several wedding-planning applications for mobile devices let brides- and grooms-to-be reach for an iPhone to manage the process, from finding the dress to registering for gifts to editing the guest list.

BoomTown Will See You in September

in News on August 21, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

Starting today and through next week, BoomTown is headed south down California’s lovely Highway 1 for as much of a vacation as I can possibly take. Which is to say, just a week off from posting. In other words: Partovis, Wenda, Owen, play nice! Yahoos, please hold your internal memos. And I hope Apple’s tablet is not delivered from on high this week while I relax beachside (it won’t be).
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Even Better: The JK Divorce Dance

in News on August 6, 2009 at 1:26 pm PT

Earlier today, BoomTown posted on the difficulty of making scratch off of popular online videos, including the Jill and Kevin wedding dance video. Here’s an inevitable spoof about the divorce dance, six months later. At least someone’s going to pay up!
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United Might Break Guitars and the Funky Wedding Video Has Buzz, But Will It All Have a Susan Boyle Ending?

in News on August 6, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

Oh, who doesn’t just love, love, love the two latest viral videos to hit the Web–“United Breaks Guitars” and the joyful wedding dance of Minnesotans Jill and Kevin? Combined, they have more than 20 million views on YouTube. While that’s all well and good, like a lot of these kinds of viral phenoms, neither is likely to make much money and become more than watercooler wonders.
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Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name

in News on April 28, 2008 at 1:38 am PT

So I was in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for a lovely wedding, traveling back to a city where I started my career and worked for 15 years after college. And I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for the wedding, all of whom were quite intelligent, armed with all [...]