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Yusuf Mehdi Gets a Big New Job at MSNBut Still No Digital Head in Sight
Longtime Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi is taking over the a big part of Microsofts online services portfolioincluding marketing, business development and product management for MSN and the search properties. But Microsoft has yet to name an overall digital head for these online properties, which has be …
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BoomTown Visits the Digital Dutch, Part 2
Heres the second of two videos I did while in Amsterdam for the PICNIC conference last week. The first video from PICNIC is here. More biking along the lovely canals of this Dutch city, along with even more odd digital stuff at the conference, as well as appearances by Liberty Globals Mike Fries, Ni …
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Dear Web 2.0: It Is the Economy, Stupid!Part 2
Before the recent crash-and-burn of the overall U.S. economy, BoomTown went all Cassandra and started talking about the worrisome weak tech stocks in the beginning of September. Then in mid-September, after listening to the frothy statements at two demo conferences from a series of start-ups then, I …
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The Entire D6 Interview With Dell Computers Michael Dell (1 of 3)
Were posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). Butas many readers have requestedthey will all be a …
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Sue Decker Makes the Yahoogle Case and (Finally) Gets It Right
This week, it will be Yahoo stepping up the volume in the debate over the controversial Yahoo-Google advertising outsourcing deal. And it could not come a minute too soon. Yahoo has been unusually quiet about the issue, after weeks of Googles more aggressive and listen-to-us-big-brains approach (alo …
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BoomTown Visits the Digital Dutch
Heres the first of two videos I have done while in Amsterdam for the PICNIC conference, which has been taking place in the picturesque Netherlands city for the past few days. In it, BoomTown bikes along the canals to the interesting event, which is being held until the end of today at the Westergasf …
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YahoogleBookmark This! (Warning: BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed by Google!)
It must have been the space cakes here in Amsterdamotherwise how could we miss mentioning a new Web site that Google has put up about its controversial search advertising outsourcing deal? Even as the Justice Department drills down on the deal (along with Canada now), a very helpful Google PR guy wr …
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No Walls Trademark Dispute (Maybe Microsoft Should Bring Back Seinfeld)
An unusual Israeli-Palestinian joint venture start-up, which makes cloud-based Web operating system letting users access their desktops from any computer with an Internet connection, is alleging a trademark violation by Microsoft in its new $300 million advertising campaign. G.ho.st, which stands fo …
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Rocky Seas for the Online Display Ad Market?
It is not so apt, if you think about it, that Yahoo has finally put up the details of its new system to let customers buy and sell display advertisingnow called APTright smack in the middle of the most serious financial meltdown of the modern era. Thats because the economic crisis is likely to becom …
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Rocky Seas For the Online Display Ad Market?
It is not so apt, if you think about it, that Yahoo has finally put of the details of its new system to let customers buy and sell display advertisingnow called APTright smack in the middle of the most serious financial meltdown of the modern era. Thats because the economic crisis is likely to becom …
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YahoogleBookmark This! (Warning: BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed By Google!)
It must have been the space cakes here in Amsterdamotherwise how could we miss mentioning a new Web site that Google has put up about its controversial search advertising outsourcing deal. Even as the Justice Department drills down on the deal (along with Canada now), a very helpful Google PR guy wr …
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YahoogleBookmark This! (Warning: BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed By Yahoo and Google!)
It must have been the space cakes here in Amsterdamotherwise how could we miss mentioning a new Web site that Yahoo and Google (GOOG) have put up about its controversial search advertising outsourcing deal. Even as the Justice Department drills down on the deal (along with Canada now), a very helpfu …
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Yahoogle: One for the Bookmarks! (Also, BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed!)
It must have been the space cakes here in Amsterdamotherwise how could we miss mentioning a new Web site that Yahoo and Google (GOOG) have put up about its controversial search advertising outsourcing deal. Said a very helpful Yahoo (YHOO) PR guy to BoomTown in an email: The site attempts to answer …
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Twos Company: Obama Girl and Ralph Nader
Okay, this one is so egregiously odd, BoomTown had to post it. From the folks at Barely Political, whose original Obama Girl video became a political pop phenom, heres one with Independent Presidential candidate Ralph Nader. It is done as a spoof on a cheesy sitcom and oddly sweet to see Nader crac …
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The Entire D6 Interview With TiVos Tom Rogers (4 of 4)
Were posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). Butas many readers have requestedthey will all be a …
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BoomTown Decodes Jerry Yangs Here-Comes-the-Weasel-Consultants Memo (So You Dont Have To!)
Oh, this is just too good to pass up, so it is once again time for BoomTown to let you know exactly what Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Jerry Yang actually meant in his internal memo to employees about the hiring of Bain Co. to evaluate its troubled business systems. Jerry wrote: yahoos, its time for another upd …
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Kara Visits Joost HQ in London: Restarting the Start-Up (With a Little Help From Its Friends)!
Well, heres a good reason not to write off Joost quite yet: When it officially debuts its new Web-based service in mid-October, it will have some pretty hot content with a half-dozen seasons of the former NBC hit, Friends. Also, there will finally be no more irksome plug-ins either. In other words, …
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Like BoomTown Said: Yahoo-AOL Talks on Again (But Now Its Official)
While it was somewhat breathlessly reported that the Yahoo board had authorized a plan to talk to AOL about a possible merger yesterday, its just a rubberstamp of what has already been going on. In other words, you dont need a leak by new board member Carl Icahn to point out the obvious and give it …
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Like BoomTown Said: Yahoo-AOL Talks On Again (But Now Its Official)
While it was somewhat breathlessly reported that the Yahoo board had authorized a plan to talk to AOL about a possible merger yesterday, its just a rubberstamp of what has already been going on. In other words, you dont need a leak by new board member Carl Icahn to point out the obvious and give it …
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Layoff Alert: Not If When
With the economic situation obviously worseningdont say you werent warnedBoomTown has no doubt now that Internet companies are in the midst of reevaluating their troop numbers to streamline themselves for the coming few months of financial winter. Thats why, according to several sources at Yahoo, fo …
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