Since it debuted last week, a spoof video for Twitteleh is rising fast, with close to 200,000 views on YouTube.
It’s one of the many parodies of the popular microblogging service, Twitter, which attracts them the way it attracts valuation-mad VCs.
Oh, dear; now my mom is going to be really pissed at me for not making her a Twitter sensation.
Unlike Justin Halpern–who has been tweeting wacky quips uttered by his dad without him knowing much about it, under the handle: @s—mydadsays.
And, lo and behold, with only 28 tweets, the cranky 73-year-old has attracted almost 250,000 followers.
My brother and I did the same for my mom this summer, but obviously have to step up our game pronto.
What’s one of the ways you might attract a lot of attention online? Here’s one possible equation: Celebrity + Mom + Tips Galore.
That’s the formula behind a new site relaunching today called Modern Mom, which is backed by “Dancing With the Stars” winner Brooke Burke and partner Lisa Rosenblatt, wading into what the pair hopes will be a lucrative market.
It’s an interesting effort to watch in online publishing, to see if the pair can attract both an audience and advertisers without a big brand name in the mother space and by leveraging Burke’s online and offline popularity.
Several years ago, my longtime friend and colleague Amy Dickinson suddenly became, well, Ann Landers.
Well, not exactly Ann herself, as that would be weird–but she took over the famous syndicated advice column in the Chicago Tribune, which changed the name to “Ask Amy.”
So, BoomTown did just that on my recent visit to Chicago, interviewing Dickinson about what questions she gets about the Internet from readers.
BoomTown landed at New York’s JFK Airport this morning and, of course, could not resist visiting the flagship Apple store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on iPhone 3G-Day.
That’s right! JesusPhone 2.0 is nigh!
So I took my Mom for a look-see at the iMadness.
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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