Archive for June, 2009
Awesome party last night at Mezzanine. Boxee was celebrating 100 apps, .5mm users with 1mm expected by year-end thanks to new Windows release, its new user-friendly home page and the winners of its developer challenge. Avner Ronen was there tossing gorgeous black tees into the crowd and everyone was having a great time. The event was hosted by [...]
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Tags: Boxee, GDGT.com, GeekBrief.TV, Gnomedex, mlb.com, Tekzilla
Impressive was the crowd producer Charles Hudson amassed for the 2nd annual Social Gaming Summit. 500 came from near and very far…game developers, game show producers, VCs…from Vancouver, Australia, Argentina. There were moments of surprising candor, mass clicking, ooohs, ahas, gasps, laughs and booming applause. The networking was stellar, and as the crowd drifted off [...]
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Tags: Biggest Brain, Blackberry Partners Fund, CampFu, Challenge Games, Charles Hudson, DaoPay, Facebook, Farm Town, FarmVille, FremantleMedia, Friends for Sale, GMG, Green Patch, hi5, IGN, IMVU, Kim Vallee, Kongregate, Lil Green Patch, Mafia Wars, Metrics, Michael Arrington, Mind Jolt, Mob Wars, Mobsters, MySpace, MyYearbook, Offerpal, Pass a Drink, PayPal, Pet Society, Playdom, PlayFirst, Playfish, Plenty of Fish, Restaurant City, Richter Scales, SlashKey, SocialReach, Sparkplay Media, Super Rewards, Tagged, TechCrunch, Texas Hold Em, Three Rings, Tomio Geron, VentureWire, WonderHill, YoVille, Zong, Zynga
It was standing room only last night as hundreds huddled in Stanford’s Bishop Auditorium to get the lowdown on the exploding mobile ecosystem, learn best practices for charting the iPhone apps store, find out about write once, run anywhere platforms, and secure an invite to the Palm Pre SDK private beta. Gracing the MIT/Stanford VLAB stage [...]
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Tags: Android, Apple, iFund, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Nokia, Palm, Rhomobile, RIM, Trism
Jeff Pulver’s party kicks into high gear as tweeps from near and far arrive in NYC for his 140 Characters Conference tomorrow. Content NOW was thrilled to get an invite from Jeff to cover the event, but will be in Silicon Valley tomorrow night covering the MIT/Stanford VLAB’s Exploring the Mobile Apps Opportunity with Matt [...]
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Tags: web 2.0, CNN, Twitter, Veoh, Shelly Palmer, Ted Cohen, Edelman Digital, Jeff Pulver, Jack Dorsey, Tim O'Reilly, #140conf, Rick Sanchez, Erick Shonfeld, StockTwits, Sci Fi, Jimmy Fallon, Emmy's, Today Show, Robert Scoble, James Cox, CNNBRK, @adventuregirl, @ijustine, Mashable, Tech Crunch, #followfriday, Steve Rubel, RadioKate
For those of you feeling withdrawal from #WWDC, have no fear, iPhone Developers Camp is back for its 3rd year and this time on the Yahoo! campus at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale July 31 – Aug 2. At only $50, this event will sell out. Eventbrite is keeping a tally of tickets left at iphonedevcamp.eventbrite.com where you [...]
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#WWDC/iPhone 3G S Ships 6.19
On June 19, you do not need to party in line overnight for the amazing iPhone 3G S. The new phone, faster, smarter with a 3MP autofocus camera and video capture is available for pre-order online now for pickup or shipment on or around launch date. Selling at $99 for 8gb 3G, $199 for 16gb [...]
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Tags: iPhone 3G S
PGA Produced By Conference/Guide
Content NOW is honored to have been chosen to cover the first Producers Guild of America Produced By Conference taking place this weekend at Sony Studios. At this sold out event, Hollywood heavyweights James Cameron, Norman Lear, Clint Eastwood mentor up-and-coming producers, HBO, USA, AMC discuss scripted cable, Desperate Housewives, Lost showrunners explore elements of episodic [...]
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Tags: Sony, Jaman, Lionsgate, Nokia, Atari, Pixar, Marvel, Star Trek, Watchmen, Star Wars, Withoutabox, AMC, Lost, Clint Eastwood, Norman Lear, Roger Corman, Mass Animation, uWink, Arianna Huffington, Endemol, GoTV, Auditude, Tudors, TOKYOPOP, Inconvenient Truth, Thom Beers, Marshall Herskovitz, Desperate Housewives, HBO Films, Dark Knight, Digital Domain, ILM, Cloverfield, Iron Man, Lawrence Bender, Michael London, ABC Entertainment, Bunim-Murray, Starlight Runner Entertainment, MIT Media Lab, Die Hard, Day After Tomorrow, Benjamin Button, Gladiator, Ugly Betty, XMen, USA, FX, TNT/TBS/TCM, DisneyABC
300 brand marketers from around the world gathered at the Hotel Nikko to share best practices on social media marketing to youth, and the biggest names in the business were mixing in the crowd talking openly about their hits and misses: MTV, MySpace, Disney. In great contrast to TWTRCON, which took place the day before [...]
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Tags: MTV, MySpace, Nokia, Disney, Facebook, Loopt, MyYearbook, RockYou, Pentel, Alloy Media & Marketing, UOPX, Ask a Ninja, Rockstar Energy Drink, Kate Voegele, Gossip Girl, Teen.com, MocoSpace, Kajeet, YourSphere