Along with a long interview I did with Slide founder and CEO Max Levchin, BoomTown also got a tour of the Web 2.0 start-up’s new San Francisco HQ from him.
Here’s the video of the visit…
Here are three screenshots of Microsoft’s internal test of a new search product called Kumo.
The long expected upgrade to Live Search from Microsoft is being tested for a public rollout later this year.
Sources at Microsoft said the company has not yet decided whether it will keep the Kumo name, which sounds a little too much like that crazy dog from the Stephen King novel.
Maybe that’s the point, at least related to Google. (Chomp!)
In Japanese, actually, Kumo has two definitions–cloud and spider.
Actually, it is always time for a dancing dog video.
That’s especially true before boarding the Southwest Airlines bus to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today and, thankfully, leaving behind the Steve-Is-Dead meme (but did you know if you spin an iPod wheel backwards, you can hear…).
But drudgery begone–bring on the cavorting canine!
This week, “Saturday Night Live” comic and spoof video impresario Andy Samberg got some ink, because another one of his groin-focused rappish music videos–this one called “J**z in My Pants”–was racking up 6.7 million views on YouTube. But while “My Pants” is very funny in that overgrown teenaged boy sort of way that a lot of Samberg’s videos are, BoomTown is much more intrigued by the short episodic online comedy videos that he is making at his production company–The Lonely Island–with his longtime partners Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone.
Did I say that there was no limit to my pandering in order to raise the most money of all in the DonorsChoose.org’s Blogger Challenge 2008!
I did, indeed!
Thus, this week, the Swisher boys make their annual appearance to deliver a pitch about why you should give early and often to fund technology projects for high school students.
Well, more a threat than the soft sell actually, since they just saw the new Disney film, “Beverly Hills Chihuahua” and are clearly hopped up on tiny dog power.
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said in an interview today that he’s still open to a deal with Microsoft.
Yang told Reuters referring to Microsoft’s execs, after they walked away from their takeover efforts Saturday: “If they have anything new to say, we would be open…I am more than willing to listen.”
After Yahoo’s precipitous stock drop today, this kind of backfilling is not a surprise, of course.
So what more can BoomTown say, except that a picture is worth a thousand words?
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
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