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Consider Your Needs, Then Use This Guide to Buying a Laptop
For years, I have focused my twice-a-year computer buyer’s guides on desktop PCs, with less-frequent columns focusing on laptops. Now that the latter are outselling the former, though, I am going to...
View ArticleLinden Bets on the Desire for Virtual Things
Virtual worlds have had some real problems. Google (GOOG), for instance, recently shut down an animated environment called Lively only five months after it was announced. And Linden Lab, whose Second...
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Good News for Twitter (I Think): It Has Scaled the "Peak of Inflated...
Can the hype surrounding buzzy tech like Twitter, the Kindle and cloud computing get any louder? No, pronounces tech consultancy Gartner Inc., which has a very official-looking chart to make its case....
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Prankster Jason Calacanis Talks About His Apple iPad Hoax (Warning: Cute Baby...
While in Los Angeles for a brief second on Friday, BoomTown motored over to the Brentwood home of puckish entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to talk to him about his prank tweets the night before the...
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Happy 25th Birthday AOL–Love, Snarky BoomTown
Here’s a video BoomTown did in honor of the 25th anniversary of the founding of AOL. I had to miss the party back East yesterday, as I am prepping for the eighth D: All Things Digital...
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Winklevii Vs. Zuck: Who'd You Rather?
The Facebook movie might have performed slightly below box office expectations last weekend for Sony (SNE) movie unit Columbia Pictures, but it certainly has invaded the mainstream zeitgeist. That’s...
View ArticleIn Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at...
“I’m not afraid To take a stand” —Eminem Disclaimer: my business partner, Marc Andreessen, is on the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ). I note that I have no inside information, and this blog...
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VC Ben Horowitz Takes Aim at HP Critics (Are You Listening, Larry and Jack?)
Today, in a sharply worded post titled “In Defense of Standards, Ethics, and Honest Financial Reporting at Hewlett-Packard,” prominent venture capitalist Ben Horowitz took to his blog to shoot back at...
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Google TV: No Need to Tune In Just Yet
The quest to bring the full range of Internet video to your TV in a simple way continues, but it isn’t going well. The latest team to try—Google, Logitech and Sony—has made an admirably bold effort,...
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Apple TV: Streaming and Renting From Devices
Of all the set-top boxes designed to bring online and computer content to your TV, perhaps the best known is Apple TV. But, unlike its maker’s other products, Apple TV hasn’t caught on in a big way. In...
View Article"The Social Network" Sweeps National Board of Review Awards
The National Board of Review has dubbed “The Social Network” the Best Picture of 2010, and has also awarded director David Fincher, star Jesse Eisenberg and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin top honors in...
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like a GeekPhone? Sprint's Android Makeover
Cellphone carriers have had a relatively easy time marketing Android phones to the early adopters who were looking for a powerful smartphone they could customize to their liking. That, after all, is...
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Google Goes To the Cloud For New Idea In PC System
In the personal-computer industry, where things change fast, one fact has been a constant for years: There are two major, mainstream operating systems for consumers. One, Microsoft Windows, runs on...
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Web Commerce Isn't Really Social…Yet
My colleague Tricia Duryee has an excellent post up on eMoney about the big trends in e-commerce: Mobile, local and social. But when you think about massive new Web commerce businesses like Groupon and...
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Even If It Had 500 Shareholders Today, Facebook Doesn't Have to Disclose...
For all those in a tizzy–including BoomTown–about Facebook’s deal with Goldman Sachs, which some think is designed to circumvent securities rules related to shareholder numbers and financial...
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Mac App Store Lacks Social Apps, Save for Twitter
Social apps are few and far between for the grand opening today of Apple’s Mac App Store, meant to be a desktop app marketplace equivalent to the highly successful app stores for Apple devices. The...
View ArticleA CES Long Shot: Meet the Beamz, Guitar Hero's Odd Cousin
Las Vegas is full of vaporware this week. Also, some mainstream gadgetry that’s almost certain to end up in real peoples’ hands. But one of the little pleasures of the Consumer Electronics Show is...
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Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Platforms, Reliability and Independence at D@CES
Twitter has crossed the threshold from Web novelty into something substantial. Now Dick Costolo’s job is to turn it into a business–one big enough to justify the sky-high valuation investors have given...
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A New Social Network Where Inquiring Minds Run Wild
If brief communications like Twitter’s 140-character messages, Facebook status updates and text messaging leave you longing for more substantial discourse, you may be in luck. This week, I took a look...
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You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and...
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. As part of the deal, Huffington Post...
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AOL + Huffington Post Won't Go to 11. But It Does Make Sense.
There are lots of Web M&As that don’t make much sense. But after you get past the “OMG!!!!!” novelty of AOL’s $315 million Huffington Post buy, this one has a straightforward logic to it: Old, big,...
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Exclusive: Microsoft Mulls Legally Poking Facebook Over Ad Talent Raid
Microsoft–furious over a recent talent grab of its top advertising exec by Facebook–has been considering a wide range of options, including legal action to block the move, according to sources close...
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Viral Video: Gimme That Old-Timey Journalism
Here is a very funny piece from cable television comedy show, “The Colbert Report,” about a reporter from Georgia. It’s hard to explain why it’s so funny, but it is a perfect send-up of the reporting...
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Twitter Tries Harder to Explain Itself
It’s common knowledge — Twitter is too tough for the average, non-techie person to pick up. Even CEO Dick Costolo agrees. That’s part of why Twitter is stepping up its efforts to become less opaque to...
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