Ymail And Rocketmail? Sorry, Yahoo, But That's Not Enough to Thwart Gmail
At 12 PDT today Yahoo will for the first time start offering free e-mail accounts under two new domains: ymail and rocketmail. Both ymail.com and rocketmail.com already lead to the Yahoo Mail landing...
It Gets Worse: Joshua Schachter Leaving Yahoo
We just got confirmation from Joshua Schachter, the founder of delicious, that he has decided to resign from Yahoo!. Mike Arrington just spoke to him and he said that the recent news coming out of Ya...
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold
Apple Renting & Selling Over 50,000 Movies Per Day — Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is t...
I'm Joining Craigslist in July
I wasn't really looking for a new job a few months ago when I received an email from Eric Scheide (see Team Bios), the CTO at craigslist. He mentioned that they were looking for someone with MySQL ex...
Bebo: Facebook Redesign's Could Screw Us (TWX)
How do you get the army of developers who've made apps for Facebook to go to work for you? Emulate Facebook. That's what Bebo, AOL's $850 million baby, did last year when it unveiled a clone of Face...
Friendster's growth in Asia could make it the top social network in the world, once again
In the current international land-grab among leading social networks, Facebook is overtaking MySpace as the largest social network in the world. But there's a big caveat — Asia …
Developers Bailing on Twitter
Welcome to Facebook, homeschoolers
Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone. Well, almost everyone. — We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willi...
Who's Next to Go at Yahoo as Reorg Looms?
My special BoomTown Yahoo tip inbox is is filling up fast this week from Yahoo employees-who, by the way, seem to like to use Gmail as their secret one-all buzzing about the next shoe to drop. — Tha...
iPod touch shortages suggest new iTouch in September
There are those among you who enjoy constantly pointing out your disappointment with the iPod touch. There are plenty of iPod touch users out there, this writer included, that are perfectly happy wit...
Internet-a-Gogo: Airlines to Offer In-Flight Access
Attention, laptop-toting U.S. airline passengers! You are either about to become much more productive and happy, or to lose one of your last refuges from the digital deluge that afflicts your life. ...
Citi: YouTube Can Generate $500M In 2009 (GOOG)
Either Google (GOOG) is figuring out how turn YouTube from money pit into a real business, or it's figured out how to convince everyone else that it's doing so: Estimates for the channel's revenue pot...
Tracking Former Yahoo Execs - Where Are They Now?
Out of pure curiosity we started tracking Yahoo execs who've left the company since January 2007. It's hard to believe, but at least fifty of them have bailed out in the last year and a half. — Som...
China denies Microsoft monopoly reports
BEIJING - China's anti-piracy bureau on Thursday denied reports it is investigating possible monopoly behavior of large software companies including Microsoft Corp. — China's State Intellectual Prop...