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Turning a Web Page Into a Keeper
What do you do if you come across an interesting online article or Web page but don’t have time to read it? You could bookmark it for a visit to the page at another time, or email the URL to yourself...
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Full Disclosure: ATD Adds Meebo Toolbar
As we have with every change to features and functionality on All Things Digital, today we are writing to give you details about a new Meebo toolbar on this site. It appears at the very bottom of each...
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The D8 Site Is Now Live
The conference site for the eighth D: All Things Digital is now up. There are posts related to D8, and we will be adding more in the next two weeks, ahead of the June 1 start of the conference. The...
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The D8 Site Is Now Live
The conference site for the eighth D: All Things Digital is now up. There are posts related to D8, and we will be adding more in the next two weeks, ahead of the June 1 start of the conference. The...
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MySpace's Jason Hirschhorn Talks About "Futura," New Logo and Marketing Dude...
Yesterday afternoon, BoomTown got on the phone for a little chitchat with MySpace Co-President Jason Hirschhorn (pictured here) about the company’s latest hire, as well as an update on major changes...
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The Freak-Out Flight Attendant's Internet Moment: Facebook Fan Page, Ballads...
BoomTown has not been much of a fan of Facebook fan pages, finding most of them sterile affairs with empty marketing messages and little in the way of real life. But things are actually hopping if you...
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Ongoing Brain Drain Claims Yahoo Finance Head
Another significant departure from Yahoo: Steve Schultz (pictured here), who was GM of its important and powerful Yahoo Finance unit, has left the company to become COO of Pageonce, an online...
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Yahoo Upgrades Search Experience With "Accordion"–As It Ports Over Tech to...
Tonight, Yahoo is introducing a new set of search upgrades, moving to focus on boosting its experience for consumers as it ports responsibility for underlying search technology over to Microsoft under...
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Liveblogging the Bing-Facebook Bromance: "Underdog" Search With a Little Help...
BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event. The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep...
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Looks Like Facebook Connect Is Coming to Myspace Tomorrow
Myspace and Facebook have just invited the press to a joint GoToMeeting webinar (how very not social media!) tomorrow at noon PT. The announcement comes on the heels of a report from the Telegraph on...
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PayPal Introducing "Social Way to Shop"
PayPal has decided it’s about time to break into social e-commerce, following the lead of just about everybody. I received a user email today introducing PayPal Shoptimist that linked to a Facebook...
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Viral Video: "Fast Five" Trailer Debuts on Vin Diesel's Facebook Fan Page
There are certainly a lot of movie trailers on the Web, but this one made its first appearance on the Facebook fan page of its meaty star. That would be action star Vin Diesel, who is the star of the...
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Gawkergate Collateral Damage Now Includes the New York Times
It’s now been at least 10 days since the Gawker group of Web sites was hacked by a group calling itself Gnosis in one of the side threads to the WikiLeaks controversy. Within two days, sites like...
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How to Open a Beer Bottle With a Magazine. Is That a Web Ad Worth Saving?
It’s not just me! News that AdKeeper, the start-up that wants Web surfers to save ads they like, has raised $35 million has lots of people scratching their heads. You can see a pretty enlightened...
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I Can Has $30M: LOLcats Become Funny Business
Would the thought of investing $30 million in a set of WordPress blogs and tools for captioning pictures of cats make you laugh out loud? That’s what Foundry Group, Madrona Venture Group, Avalon...
View ArticleReleased Google Exec Speaks on His Role in Egyptian Protests (Video and...
Wearing a T-shirt bearing his employer’s name, Google executive Wael Ghonim spoke with reporters after being released today from 12 days of detention for his role in protests against the Egyptian...
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Liveblogging Yahoo's Q1 Earnings Call: Get Me to Funky Town
MicroHoo is funky! At least according to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on the Silicon Valley search giant’s first-quarter earnings conference call about its recent financial performance. Yahoo’s results...
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The Future of Social Media at AllThingsD
AllThingsD has undergone a lot of changes in the past year that Walt and I are truly proud of, and today we are posting together about changes to social media on the site. Social media, especially...
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A Social Update From AllThingsD's Social Media Editor
A few months back, after our staff more than doubled in size, AllThingsD launched our redesigned Web site. Today, we’re taking another step forward by launching an updated social media strategy. You...
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It's Called Google Propeller and It's Aimed at Flipboard (and Facebook, Too,...
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Earlier today, well-known digerati dude Robert Scoble posted on his social feed on Google+ that the search giant was working on a social and news...
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Yahoo's Product Runway: Are You In or Out?
I am here at Yahoo HQ in Sunnyvale, Calif., to check out “Product Runway,” which is the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s attempt to show that it can still innovate. First and foremost is the launch of...
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Meet Billy, the Bison Mark Zuckerberg Shot and Hung On Sheryl Sandberg's Wall
Remember when Fortune magazine wrote in September that Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had reportedly bagged a bison as part of a “personal challenge” to eat only what he had killed? Well,...
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Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me: Yahoo's Latest New Homepage Redesign Tries...
Another week and yet another new design for the Yahoo homepage is being tested out on users — this time, it appears to be one (which you can see below) that looks a lot like Microsoft Windows 8’s...
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Tumblr Brand Will Remain -- With Mostly "Hands-Off" Product Approach by...
According to numerous sources close to the situation, the Tumblr brand will continue on in the wake of its $1.1 billion acquisition by Yahoo. That includes definitive promises by Yahoo CEO Marissa...
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Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation
According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs. The new funding puts the valuation of the...
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