Video: BoomTown Versus Texas Hipsters and Cheddar Cheese Cats at SXSW
As it turned out, BoomTown did not succumb to hipster poisoning on my sojourn this past weekend to Austin, Texas and the famous South by Southwest festival. The annual gathering, which has...
View ArticleViral Video: "Super 8” and "Portal 2” Interactive Movie Trailer
Though BoomTown was dubious, this trailer for the upcoming J.J. Abrams movie “Super 8″ is pretty cool beans. It is in the style of an interactive video game–in fact, Abrams worked with the creators of...
View ArticleArtists Experiment With Interactive Music Videos
Director Chris Milk’s new music video, released yesterday, introduces a young woman roaming a postapocalyptic landscape, and features a song from the coming album “Rome” by Danger Mouse and Daniele...
View ArticlePixazza Changes Name to Luminate, Launches Image Apps Platform
Pixazza is dead. Long live Luminate. Well, from a brand perspective, at least, as the image advertising start-up changes to an easier-to-say name and also launches a new platform for image...
View ArticleViral Video: Dorktastic Kinect Jockey!
I shall say no more than this: Pretty please watch this video for the Champion Jockey interactive game, which you can play on Microsoft’s Kinect player, if only for the bobbing and weaving dude who...
View ArticleExclusive: Apple's Mobile Ad Head Andy Miller Departs for Highland Capital
Andy Miller (pictured here), the high-profile VP of mobile advertising at Apple, is planning on leaving the company, according to sources close to the situation. Sources said Miller — who sold Quattro...
View ArticleExclusive: Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Blake Krikorian Joins Amazon Board
Well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur Blake Krikorian has joined the board of Amazon, according to several sources close to the situation. Krikorian — who is considered one of tech’s most savvy execs...
View ArticleLuminate Raises $10.7M in New Funding, Adds Image App Store
Luminate, the Silicon Valley start-up aimed at making digital images interactive, said it had raised $10.7 million in a Series C round of funding, led by Nokia Growth Partners and also including...
View ArticleThe Essential SXSW Tech Tool Kit
Hey, over here! Yeah, you — the person who’s pretending to respond to work emails while trolling the Internet today for anything related to “Apple” and “iPad.” There’s something else happening this...
View ArticleParty On … And On … And On, Geek (But Not Much Else): A Newbie Reflects on SXSW
Never having been to South by Southwest, I really didn’t know what to expect after I landed in Austin. As I take off on a plane away from Austin, I have a few observations, many of which seemed to be...
View ArticleCisco Acquires Israeli Video Software Firm NDS for $5 Billion
Update: This deal was just confirmed by Cisco, which moments ago pushed out a press release. I’ve embedded the text below, and will revise the post momentarily. Networking giant Cisco Systems said...
View ArticleExclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media
In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production...
View ArticleYahoo Gets Googley Q&A Tool at Friday FYI and Uses It to Ask About Exec...
Well, it wasn’t as tasty as free food this week at Yahoo, but in her second official all-hands meeting with employees — now reportedly called “Friday FYI” — new CEO Marissa Mayer rolled out another...
View ArticleMayer Will Extend Free Food to NYC Too, While "What Is Yahoo?" Question Is...
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer descended on two of its New York offices today, declaring that she would summarily be granting free food to all there as she had recently done to much acclaim at its...
View ArticleExclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Aiming for Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to recruit Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter’s head of international markets, to take a major job on the media side of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, according...
View ArticleAs Fantasy Football Servers Fumble on Game Day, Yahoo Rolls Out More Homepage...
Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Mayer is continuing her tweaking of the critical homepage of the Silicon Valley Internet giant. “Bucket tests” of new iterations are rolling out today to small sets of users...
View ArticleFormer MySpace and NFL Digital Exec Jeff Berman Tapped as President of...
Longtime digital exec Jeff Berman is joining Hollywood production company BermanBraun as its first president. Berman — who is no relation to BermanBraun co-founder Gail Berman — comes to the firm from...
View ArticleGavin Newsom Talks About Transparent Government (Video)
Last week, I ambled over to the Founders Den in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood to talk to California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom about his new book, “Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, Al Gore, Modern Blogging and More: Where to Find ATD...
Time again for app-flicking, party-hopping, BBQ-eating and, somewhere in between all that, panel-picking. The interactive portion of the SXSW festival — known as “South By” to hip conference goers —...
View ArticleThis Year at SXSW, the Next Killer App … Maybe Isn’t
In recent years, the annual SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, Texas, has become a hive for new platforms, with early tech adopters buzzing about the latest and greatest apps, sending some of them...
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