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A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even...
Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and launched at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft (MSFT) search service revealed on its blog...
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Search Users Evidently Just a Bunch of Megan Fox-Ogling, WWE-Patronizing...
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...
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BoomTown Decodes Google CEO Schmidt's Shut-Up-You-Whiny-News-Folk Op-Ed (So...
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Google CEO Eric Schmidt did one of his patented throat-clearers in an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal today and it pretty much begs for...
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What Facebook Privacy Problem? Advertisers Yawn.
Plenty of Web folks–me included–hollered loudly when Facebook overhauled its privacy policy this month. But the Web is made for shouting, so that makes it pretty hard to get a sense of how most people...
View ArticleTwilight 3 Script for "Eclipse" Leaked to Internet
If you’re wearing a Team Edward or Team Jacob T-shirt, this is probably old news, but a 112-page screenplay for “Eclipse”–the third installment of the Twilight franchise–has been leaked to the...
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What if Facebook Ever Got Serious About Becoming a News Aggregation Vampire?...
Here are two quotes that got me thinking about what would happen if Facebook–whose user base is inexorably marching toward 400 million–ever got serious about the news aggregation business. First,...
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Viral Video: "Twilight" Is Back Again (This Vampire Just Won't Die, Will It?)
The “Twilight” saga, which seems to have just ended with the release of the second film in the series, “New Moon,” in November, is baaaaack. And, of course, the Internet is huffing and puffing over...
View ArticleMissed MTV's Movie Awards? The Web Has Collected All the F-Bombs You Want.
Big live events are supposed to be the one thing that pulls you away from your computer and toward your TV. But if you’re so inclined, the Web works as a very good substitute for things like last...
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Liveblogging Microsoft's Financial Analyst Meeting (Morning Session): It's a...
BoomTown took the corporate All Things Digital jet–aka Virgin America, seat 10A–up to Redmond, Wash., today to attend Microsoft’s annual Financial Analyst Meeting, which also includes a passel of...
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"Hit Me Up" Was Facebook's Breakout Slang in 2010
I suppose I’m a sucker for year-end trend lists, given I’ve written up reports about trends from YouTube, Twitter and Google in just the last few days. In short: Bieber, Bieber, Bieber. Next up is...
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Headless Lawsuit in Topless Blog!
On some level of journalism, I guess anything could happen. At least that’s according to a recent article by Business Insider’s Henry Blodget about an alleged “mole” at Twitter who was allegedly...
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Viral Video: The Fantastically Freaky CGI of "Snow White & the Huntsman"
And here I thought the sulky genius of Kristen Stewart would fade away after the final two “Twilight” movies made their debut — one opens this week (yay!). Instead, this trailer for “Snow White &...
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Viral Video: Donkeys Get Lonely on TWiT (Video)
I motored on up north to lovely Petaluma, Calif., on Sunday, to be on Leo Laporte’s most excellent “This Week in Tech” show. My fellow panelists included Milk’s Kevin Rose, CNET’s Rafe Needleman and...
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Still Looking for Gift Ideas? Wal-Mart Recommends a Box for Men.
Still don’t know what to get your loved one for the holidays? Well, you better decide fast. For many sites, today is the final day that orders can be placed to get guaranteed delivery by Christmas. If...
View ArticleColiloquy Steams Up Interactive E-Books (Video)
E-book publisher Coliloquy is doing a bunch of interesting things: The start-up is trying to overhaul the traditional book royalty system, for one thing. And it is built on an interactive platform that...
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Viral Video: "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter"
The popular, albeit odd, book is coming out as a movie this summer, with the description: “President Lincoln’s mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires...
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Survey Says: Yes on iPad 3 (Not So Much on Final "Twilight")
It turns out that people responding to our poll about whether they were buying an iPad 3 — which Apple is unveiling this coming week — are overwhelmingly planning to fork over the dough for a new one....
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Viral Video: Bella Is Now a Sparkly Vampire
We Twihards saw it coming at the end of the last installment of the “Twilight” movie franchise, as the main character, Bella, finally got to be a sparkly vampire. Actually, she seems to have become a...
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Viral Video: With "Dark Shadows," Vampires Go From Sparkly to Snarky
If you want a good laugh on a Friday, tune into this movie trailer for “Dark Shadows,” the remake of the popular television show from the 1970s that is being reborn by director Tim Burton and starring...
View ArticleOnline Audiences Are Famished for "The Hunger Games" (Though Vampires Still...
As of yesterday morning, the movie version of the popular teen novel “The Hunger Games,” which comes out Friday, accounted for 92 percent of total ticket sales on Fandango. That includes 1,200...
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