4 posts and columns on Woody Allen

Viral Video: Will the 3-D Movies Never End?

in Media on June 3, 2011 at 12:12 am PT

Yet another Hollywood movie–this time, a sequel to the penguin-dancing “Happy Feet”–is coming out in 3-D. Will the noisy madness never end?
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Liveblogging the Geo-Location Announcement: Oh, the Facebook "Places" You'll Go

in News on August 18, 2010 at 4:28 pm PT

BoomTown motored on down the lovely Highway 280 in Silicon Valley to Facebook to hear execs talk about a new geo-location feature the powerful social networking site is rolling out. The new name of the service, which will be deeply integrated into its current update system, as I reported earlier, will be “Places.” There will be no games, no mayors and no special discounts either in Facebook Places–just plain and simple checking in and, presumably, taking names.

Yahoo Earnings: What to Expect When You're Not Expecting (Much)

in News on October 21, 2008 at 6:55 am PT

Here’s a bright spot in Yahoo’s third-quarter earnings announcement later today: Sources told BoomTown that the company will not announce a specific number of layoffs tomorrow, although it will give an overall percentage of employees and costs to be cut. In other words, you get to practice your long division and multiplication skills! Fun! Other than that, of course, when Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang gets on the horn at at 2 p.m. Pacific time, the outlook is likely to be a wall-to-wall glumfest.