Liz Gannes in Social on April 20, 2012 at 7:00 am PT
How a leading Chinese mobile social network “broke” itself to allow a celebrity user — and it worked.
Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2011 at 12:15 am PT
BoomTown usually loves a good Britney Spears music video.
But this one, for the single “Hold It Against Me,” pretty much poses her in front of dancers and not much else.
Still, it’s garnering kabillions of views online and that’s kind of the point, I guess.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 8, 2009 at 2:30 pm PT
Vevo, the “Hulu for Music” site featuring videos from three of the big music labels, is supposed to officially go live tonight, and there’s a big party in New York to kick things off. But if you’re not going to that and want to see the site now, you can get a peek.
John Paczkowski in Social on December 1, 2009 at 9:31 am PT
If our search engine queries are, on some level, a reflection of who we are as a people, then we are a sorry, sorry lot indeed. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all released their lists of the top search queries for 2009 today and they reveal us to be a nation of celebrity-obsessed, swine flu-suffering, vampire-loving, Megan Fox-ogling, Lady Gaga-humming, World Wrestling Entertainment-patronizing Nascar fans.
Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2009 at 9:30 am PT
Well, it’s not like Twitter’s investors are Britney Spears or anything, but somehow, the $1 billion valuation of Twitter deserves a BoomTown all-lenses-shooting response.
Thus, the crack team at
All Things Digital went all out in trying to capture one such investor in his true state.
Click in to see photographic proof!
Peter Kafka in Media on September 14, 2009 at 6:11 am PT
It’s a not-quite-annual tradition: Something unexpected (but perhaps not unplanned) happens at MTV’s Video Music Awards and the Internet can’t stop talking about it. But Viacom’s copyright lawsuit means that you’ll have work a bit if you want to see for yourself on YouTube.
Kara Swisher in News on July 8, 2009 at 10:51 am PT
On the spur of the moment yesterday–as Los Angeles was gridlocked by the memorial service for pop legend Michael Jackson–BoomTown decided to pay a quick visit to Harvey Levin, who runs TMZ.
Located on Sunset Boulevard–
natch!–TMZ is the celebrity news Web site that actually broke the news of Jackson’s death, before any other media outlet.
And it has pretty much led the coverage as the sad story has unfolded–and keeps doing so.
Kara Swisher in News on June 25, 2009 at 10:18 am PT
BoomTown is at the lovely Santa Clara Marriott in Silicon Valley at the 2009 Yahoo annual meeting, liveblogging the event, which should be spectacularly dull.
Here is a rundown of what went on.
10:05 am: The meeting kicks off with a little video presentation with various and sundry television talking heads saying “Yahoo” in quick succession.
Actually, this was the year during which all of those hype-magnets repeated “Twitter” so many times that it has began to make my ears bleed.
But I like the spirit of trying to make Yahoo seem relevant and innovative again.
