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Here's Why McKinsey's Coming to Condé Nast: The Coming Black September
Here’s why Condé Nast is bringing in McKinsey & Co. for an emergency overhaul: The publisher’s lousy year isn’t getting any better. New numbers Condé released today show that its September issues...
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Loïc Le Meur Speaks About New (and Improved?) Seesmic!
When BoomTown went to visit serial entrepreneur Loïc Le Meur early last year at his San Francisco HQ, he was stoked about the prospects of his “video conversation” community start-up called Seesmic....
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Liveblogging the Google Search Event: Gutenberg, Goggles and Scrolling...
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google. Right now, BoomTown is sitting right behind the very affable Jason Hirschhorn, chief product officer of MySpace, who is here to make one of the...
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Nook E-Reader Has Potential, but Needs Work
Amazon’s Kindle has been the king of the nascent, much-hyped, category of wireless e-readers since it came out in 2007. Now, numerous companies are determined to challenge the Kindle with dedicated,...
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Is YouTube Finally Ready to Turn a Profit This Year?
Starting last summer, Google executives have consistently promised that YouTube was close to becoming profitable. When will that finally happen? This year, says Barclays analyst Douglas Anmuth. He...
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Apple iPad Event Liveblog
After months of feverish speculation and as many years of wishful thinking, Apple uncrated its tablet computer–the iPad–at an invitation-only event in San Francisco this morning. Liveblog 9:13 am PT:...
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Touch-Up: Apple's iPad Improves Multitouch and Gesture Capabilities
Apple’s iPad, announced this morning, will definitely make waves in the e-reader market. Undoubtedly, much of its appeal will lie in its color display and ease of use. Much like other OS X...
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The iPad Is a Multimedia Device. So Where Are the Media? Be Patient.
As predicted, Steve Jobs showed off a new multimedia device today. One thing he didn’t show off, though: Much in the way of new media. Jobs and company clearly plan on incorporating new products from...
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The Entire BoomTown Video of the Mossberg-Jobs Chit-Chat at Apple iPad Launch!
A video BoomTown posted earlier this week–following around my All Things Digital partner Walt Mossberg at the launch of the Apple iPad–has gotten an awful lot of attention, due to a little over two...
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iPad Porn: Apple's Guided Tours
There’s no substitute for real hands-on time with Apple’s (AAPL) iPad (or any as-of-yet-unreleased gadget), but here’s the next best thing until it arrives at market Saturday: A series of 11...
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Found! A Magazine Guy Who Yawns at the iPad.
The magazine industry has placed tremendous–very likely, unrealistic–hope in the iPad. One exception: Magazine god George Lois. Lois influenced generations of art directors during his 10-year tenure at...
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iPad Apps Now Live on iTunes
Looks like Apple (AAPL) is lighting up the iPad App Store in advance of the device’s official launch. iTunes is now showing a number of iPad-specific applications, all of them evidently available for...
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Google at the Gallery: Turning Search Results Into Works of Art
Most people see Google’s image search as a quick way to find a picture. Ken Solomon sees art. Literally. Solomon is a Brooklyn-based artist who has spent the past couple years working on stuff with a...
View ArticleMagazine Publishers Turn Back From the Abyss
Magazine publishers took a particularly brutal beating during the last ad recession, so they have a very long way to go if they’re going to climb back. Still, this is a start: Ad pages increased 3.6...
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Spoiler Alert: PlayBook Outshines iPad in RIM Video
Research in Motion hasn’t yet launched its new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and won’t until 2011, but it’s already kicked off the campaign to position it against what’s likely to be its archrival:...
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Flipboard Partners With Web Publishers for Full Content (and Full Disclosure:...
Yesterday, I wrote about Pulse, a news-reading app with innovative design, going social by integrating Facebook. Now Flipboard, a social news-reading app based around Twitter and Facebook, is adding...
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Top iOS Apps of 2010: Flipboard, Hipstamatic, Plants Vs. Zombies and Osmos
Just nine days into December and the “Best of 2010″ lists are already piling up like early snow. The latest, Apple’s iTunes Rewind, highlights the store’s most popular content of the year and, while...
View ArticleThat Was Fast: About.Me Acquired by AOL
Less than a week after its public debut, About.me, the start-up offering simple personal profile pages that tie together social networking contact info from other sites, is being acquired by AOL. The...
View ArticleGrand Opening: Mac App Store Debuts With 1,000 Apps
Apple’s Mac App Store went live this morning with the release of Mac OS X 10.6.6. And it’s off to a good start already. At launch there are some 1,000 apps, paid and free, spread out over the standard...
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Apple Brings iWork Apps to iPhone and iPod Touch
Making more news ahead of its developers conference next week, Apple said on Tuesday that it is bringing its iWork collection of productivity apps to the small screen. Already available for the iPad,...
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Apple Helps Devices Get Their Heads in the Cloud
[ See post to watch video ] Apple devices can be addictive: People buy one tiny iPod, fall in love, and end up with three or four other Apple products. Now if only they could see all their data on all...
View ArticleMicrosoft Office on iPad
Q: Which app do you recommend for using on the iPad 2 for opening Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel, PowerPoint?) A: If you literally just want to open the documents to read them, you don’t need any...
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Boo, the World's Cutest Dog, Calls a Facebook Employee "Mom"
If you’ve been anywhere near the Web over the past few years, you’ve probably come across Boo. He’s the self-proclaimed “World’s Cutest Dog” — a 6-year-old pomeranian with a carefully coiffed hairdo,...
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Apps Raise the iPad's Aptitude for Real Work
There’s a popular myth that Apple’s iPad and other tablets are simply media-consumption devices, unsuitable for productivity applications. That’s just not so, and this week I tested a variety of office...
View ArticleFacebook Mobile App Hooks Up With OpenTable
Facebook on Monday announced a new integration with restaurant reservation network OpenTable, which will allow Facebook users to book reservations directly through the Facebook mobile iOS app. The...
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