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Where in the World Is America's CTO?
With the naming of Oracle (ORCL) President Charles Phillips to President Barack Obama’s 16-Member Economic Recovery Advisory Board a few days ago, another Silicon Valley tech mandarin fell off the...
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Liveblogging the Facebook Our-ToS-Is-Your-ToS Press Conference
BoomTown is impatiently cooling heels, waiting for a press conference to begin about “new steps Facebook is taking to improve user understanding and ownership of the Facebook terms of service and,...
View ArticleNew Effort Hopes to Improve Software Security
It’s not much of a secret that a lot of software has security flaws. One reason is that there aren’t any real standards for designing secure software. In fact, the right way to secure programs is...
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Hey There! RITreasury is Using Twitter!
Twitter accounts are like… opinions: Everyone’s got one. Even Rhode Island’s Office of the General Treasurer, which recently announced plans to Twitter the state’s daily cash flow in real time. “As we...
View ArticleWalt's Digg Dialogg with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
Walt recently sat down to interview FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, and asked him the top questions submitted via Digg.com. Check out the entire Digg Dialogg right here (you can also find it on...
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Philip "Pud" Kaplan Talks About Blippy–the Twitter of $$
To start, let’s just dispense with huffing and puffing angst over whether or not people should broadcast their credit card transactions online. Because that’s what you can do on a new site, with the...
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In Search Of… Images Worth 1,000 Results
If you’ve ever visualized something in your head but couldn’t think of its name, you might appreciate a new method of online discovery: visual search. Screenshot of Google Image Swirl This week, I...
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Parallels Zips Past Fusion in Running Windows on Macs
One of the advantages of the Apple Macintosh is that it’s the only computer consumers can buy that is able to run both Apple’s own Mac operating system and Microsoft Windows on the same machine. That...
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Buzz Kill: FTC Urged to Investigate Google Privacy Flap
This is obviously not to the sort of buzz Google was hoping for when it launched its new social networking service. Little more than a month after the bungled launch of Buzz and the company has...
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After Some Flashy Investing, Is Andreessen Horowitz's Next Move a Big New Fund?
Since it launched almost exactly a year ago with a $300 million fund, the venture firm of Andreessen Horowitz has cut a rather high-profile path through the Silicon Valley investing community. And...
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Decoding Google's Net Neutrality Proposal Blog: The Pixie Dust-Free Edition!
The opening line of the classic J.M. Barrie book “Peter Pan” reads, “All children, except one, grow up.” Actually, that one grew up, too, and now the whole Internet is angry at Google (GOOG) and...
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The Facebook Movie's First Review Is Boffo: Here's How Mark Zuckerberg Can...
Apparently, the review is in–only one review, so far–but it’s a corker. Although “The Social Network,” the Columbia Pictures movie about the origins of Facebook, is not coming out until its premiere...
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BoomTown as Judge Judy, Um, Judge BigApps
With All Things Digital Global HQ located in the heart of the Castro in San Francisco, BoomTown tries hard not to judge–even that dude who likes to come into the Starbucks (SBUX) naked. But I made an...
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Is Larry Page the Consummate Anti-Social CEO?
Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out...
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ISS Calls for Apple CEO Succession Plan
Apple doesn’t want to divulge its executive succession plan, but it may soon have to. With CEO Steve Jobs on indefinite medical leave for an undisclosed condition and the company’s annual meeting...
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Apple Reports Progress on Supplier Responsibility, But Major Violations...
Apple was recently accused of ignoring hazardous and unhealthy conditions at its overseas suppliers, so the company’s 2011 Supplier Responsibility Progress Report arrives at a particularly apt time....
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Godspeed on That Investing Thing, Yertle–But I Still Have Some Questions for...
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site...
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Groupon Updates Privacy Rules, Including on Mobile Tracking and Sharing of...
Groupon sent out emails to its users this weekend, about changes it has made to its privacy statement and terms of use. Among the most notable changes is more information about the Chicago-based...
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Murdoch & Son Visit Parliament and Return With a Big Helping Of Humble (and...
This morning, News Corp. CEO and majordomo Rupert Murdoch, his son James (who is also a top company exec) — as well as former employee and full-time lightning rod Rebekah Brooks — march on down to the...
View ArticleRidiculously Transparent
I had a real struggle preparing to be a public company CEO. And it had little to do with having scalable internal systems or making the quarterly numbers: I just couldn’t keep secrets from my...
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