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BoomTown's Top 10 List of Fact-Challenged Revelations That Should Be in the Facebook Tell-All Book

in News on June 24, 2009 at 3:34 pm PT

How much is BoomTown and everyone else in Silicon Valley trying to nab a copy of Ben Mezrich’s likely-to-be-entirely-made-up-but-who-cares tale of dirty doings at Facebook? Muchety-much! But, so far I have come up peanuts in grabbing an early copy of the work of “fact”-ion–titled “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal”–which is set to come out July 14, along with a movie later. Facebook is not pleased, of course, and will likely be challenging Mezrich’s work as specious dreck, but here’s my own list of 10 completely made-up, utterly fabricated, just-call-me-Jayson-Blair facts that should be in the book.
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He's Finally the Nominee–Time for BoomTown's Favorite Obama Videos!

in News on June 5, 2008 at 11:09 am PT

Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Presidential nomination this week, so we’d be remiss if we did not revisit some of the many videos online that have popped up around the charismatic candidate that this column has referenced. Tomorrow: McCain videos! Really
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"West Wing"-Obama Mashup

in News on March 4, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

BoomTown has decided to reinstate our practice of showcasing excellent online videos that we started posting during the writers’ strike. Our premise has been simple: That online video in both short and long form is the future and its development is important to pay attention to. As a huge fan of the now-defunct “The West [...]