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Shut Up, Twitter
New Twitter Show Sure to Annihilate Twitter Once and For All
Are you sick of Twitter yet? Probably! But if not, wait patiently because the spunky little messaging service is teaming with a group of Hollywood geniuses to bring you an "unscripted show" that would "harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format." Yeah. More »
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Comment by Claire Buoyant: Watching this show on an iPhone would be pretty meta, wouldn't it? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Shut Up, Twitter
Did Ashton Kutcher Cheat His Way to a Million Twitter Pals?
Ashton Kutcher, we wish we could quit you. The model-actor-director-wantrepreneur has been racing CNN to attract a million followers on Twitter, and he barely won this morning. People are already suggesting the contest was rigged. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lillywolf: I think that was done so that people couldn't add/remove themselves in an attempt to game the system and be... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Shut Up, Twitter
Oprah's on Twitter, Twitter's on Oprah, and Everyone's So Excited!
We think we've figure out Twitter's big news tomorrow: Oprah Winfrey is joining Twitter. Here's the evidence. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lobstr: Prepare for gems along the lines of "GAYLE AND I ABOUT TO ENTER THE SPA, CUCUMBERS SLICES TO BE... 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
On Twitter, Seeing Is Believing
Perez Hilton saw a market opportunity, Michelle Malkin saw her kid, Jimmy Fallon saw Martha Stewart, and CNN's Rick Sanchez saw red! Today's tweets from the media elite: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Golly Gee Holly: These people all remind me of my mother. Save for Perez, he's more like my mother's spastic attention crazed puppy. 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twitterin' In the Rain
Today in Twitter: Demi and Ashton love Los Angeles, Los Angeles loves Rachel Sklar, Jess Coen's vagina loves Drew Barrymore, and Brian Stelter loves Trenton (and technology). Happy Friday. More »
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Comment by cherie_chapstick: Dear Richard, You can do sooooooo much better than this. You can. You know it. You are an excellent writer. And... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Twittered to Distraction
Jennifer 8. Lee saw Cameron Diaz. Ashton Kutcher missed Demi Moore. Choire Sicha dreamed about his therapist. On Twitter, we are all the stars of our own movies. Today's narcissist watch: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Truculent: Any minute now Jenny will start developing her own gravitational field. Put down the chopsticks, Jenny, before you become Jennifer... 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Self-Improvement, 140 Characters at a Time
Today's tweets: Ashton Kutcher tried to be more tolerant, the New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones tried to be more zen, and a guy who dropped out of journalism school tried to be more drunk. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Sproing: If Ashton's neighbor is following him, the hammering will now commence at 5. 3 Responses | Other threads
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twitter
Demi Moore Introduced To 'Twitter Deal' By Ashton Kutcher
In between fielding calls from the CIA and praising "Love and Light," internet-savvy whippersnapper Ashton Kutcher procured an "assistant" (virtual?) to introduce wife Demi Moore to Twitter. Moore's already getting snarky. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by BxgrlJeri: Does anyone on this planet have any unexpressed thoughts? 4 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
Shira Lazar, Kevin Rose's Latest Fling
Having famously "plowed through" San Francisco's eligible bachelorettes, Digg founder Kevin Rose went L.A. for his most recent paramour, Shira Lazar. Who is this Web-video wannabe with links to Dov Charney and Julia Allison? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by LilyBartleby: She's an upgrade from his previous paramour, Roseys Palm. 9 Responses | Other threads
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ooma
How Ashton Kutcher killed a startup guy's Hollywood dream
It was a fantasy left over from the last boom: Hire a movie star to pitch your startup, and the dusting of tinsel will turbocharge sales. Those William Shatner ads sold plane tickets for Priceline, right? But the career of hard-partying entrepreneur Andrew Frame did not follow that script. We hear he was just fired as CEO of the Internet-phone startup he cofounded, Ooma. His most notable decision, hiring actor Ashton Kutcher as "creative director," did not pan out; Kutcher made a few incomprehensible videos, and then faded from the scene. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ElvisWorley: $250? When I can buy a Magic Jack for a fraction of the price and get the same free service. 2 Responses | Other threads
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ashton kutcher
MTV star's fashionably late office videos
Punk'd host Aston Kutcher showed up at TechCrunch50 last month to put some Web 2.0 spin on a cartoon from his studio, Katalyst Films. Blah Girls, from Kutcher's point of view, is surely a flop, having failed to stay afloat atop Google News and Twitter. But the fake behind-the-scenes clips Kutcher's crew post to YouTube are in some ways better than The Office. These guys are from Hollywood, so they always know where their third act is. Too bad they can't teach it to Sequoia.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Alaska Miller: That was pretty fucking lame. 1 Responses | Other threads
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ashton kutcher
Actor assures tech reporter he's not a puppet, but a real business boy
In a short interview for Yahoo, giggly Tech Ticker reporter Sarah Lacy gave model-turned-actor-turned-investor Ashton Kutcher a chance to let everyone know that he's not just a pretty face as a company founder, but "isn't getting much sleep" while managing every facet of his new startup, Blahgirls. This week he's been at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco promoting his new celebrity gossip and humor site, where cheeky, animated teenage girls keep a blog and appear in two short videos a week — in the first batch, we meet the character Stewart, a fey online gossip who, purely coincidentally, has a pink fauxhawk. Full interview after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by ld50: @jangregory his cartoons did not appeal to me one bit. and i can certainly appreciate cartoons- south park, family guy,... 1 Responses | Other threads
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commenter of the day
Rachel Marsden
I thought Ashton Kutcher at TechCrunch50 was just some elaborate year-long Punk'd episode. Ooma? Blah Blah Girls? But it turns out it's actually just Michael Arrington's publicity bait! Well today's featured commenter, Rachel Marsden, shares with us a glimpse of her ass-kicking notoriety: More »
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Comment by twig: This is a devastating commentary on the quality of Valleywag comments. 2 Responses | Other threads
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celebritards
Ashton Kutcher pulls in the press for TechCrunch50
The New York Times and Los Angeles Times don't normally write about tech conferences. But if the host of MTV's Punk'd shows up to launch a cartoon site, so does the MSM. In a Q&A for the LA Times with former San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jessica Guynn, Kutcher explains his ties to Silicon Valley: "We have offices in L.A. and New York." (Photo by Andrew Mager)
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By Paul BoutinComment by mager: Kutcher is a real dude. He's on top of his business. more » | Other threads
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the 250
Demi Moore and Robert Scoble's moment of mutual unrecognition
Just how isolated are tech pundits like Robert Scoble from the real world? In a telling moment at a "VIP" party for TechCrunch50, Michael Arrington's startup conference taking place this week in San Francisco, an attendee tried to explain Scoble's notoriety to fading film star Demi Moore. Moore was on hand to promote her hubby Ashton Kutcher's new Web show Blah Girls. The actress, like most of America, had never heard of the ruddy, flaxen-haired Fast Company videoblogger. More surprising was Scoble's confession that he hadn't recognized Moore, either. Which makes me think of a new motto for the 250, Valleywag's term for the Valley's self-appointed, self-obsessed inside crowd: "You don't know us, and we don't know you." (Photos by AP/Evan Agostini and Shannon Clark)
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By Jackson WestComment by categorically: Please, Robert wanked off to Demi when he was out of work in the 90s. He is so full... 1 Responses | Other threads
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venture capital
SaysMe latest startup to flirt with the curse of Ashton Kutcher
Startup SaysMe, which will produce generic, re-brandable commercial video spots for local businesses and small-town politicians, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from a group of venture firms, including Katalyst Films, home of male model-turned-VC Ashton Kutcher, as well as Intel and Prime Capital's funds. SaysMe's most direct competitor is Spot Runner, another production house which makes stock ads, customized to feature small businesses and placed on network and cable television. It can't possibly have a worse business plan than VOIP hardware maker Ooma, another startup anointed by Kutcher, can it? -
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Ashton Kutcher-backed startup Ooma is falling apart
Hold the phone: Voice-over-Internet startup Ooma is flailing, despite — or perhaps because of — a viral-video marketing campaign directed by Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher. Ooma launched its product, a $400 device which offers unlimited phone calls, last year, with a splash of press. Starstruck tech bloggers like TechCrunch's Michael Arrington gave away Ooma gadgets to readers in exchange for some facetime with Kutcher — and asked few questions about its nonsensical business model, which had it charging high upfront prices for hardware and giving away phone service. Now, we're told, its high-school-dropout CEO, Andrew Frame, has seen a host of executives leave. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by SuprabhaNoppit: Looks like there's some additional people leaving and layoffs at ooma. ooma has decided to terminate their entire... more » | Other threads
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geeks gone wild
New England geeks get best chance to score
Ashton Kutcher's greatest contribution to geek culture — and no, we aren't referring to Internet telephone startup Ooma — is coming to Boston. Fulfilling every nerd's wildest fantasies, the guilty-pleasure reality show Beauty and the Geek is coming to Beantown on Saturday . Producers are searching for dweebs and bimbos willing to provide the CW network's viewing audience with endless entertainment at their personal expense. And the specifics of the casting call? More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Tim Faulkner: @sample032: you definitely out nerded me, sample032. more » | Other threads
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Ooma gets creepier
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Say hello — and goodbye — to Ooma
Ooma, the voice-over-Internet gadget maker founded by entrepreneur and celebrity doppelganger Andrew Frame, finally makes its official debut. Starting today, the $399 box, which routes calls from regular phones over the Internet, goes on sale to the general public. Now you won't have to rely on blog giveaways to get your hands on the device. Assuming you want to. More » -
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Why Ooma is dooma'd
At first I was loath to even join in what Uncov calls the "A-list rub and tug" on Ooma, the telecom startup launched by Andrew Frame, the entrepreneur who looks like a model, and Ashton Kutcher, the Hollywood star who actually was a model. Like its founders, Ooma is all looks, no substance. Launched late, Ooma's product, a piece of hardware that lets you place free phone calls over the Internet, looks set to flop, as insiders predicted, because its creators fundamentally misunderstand both consumers and technology. But at least the box, like Frame and Kutcher, is pretty. Read on to learn why looks don't matter in telecom — and why we're putting Ooma on immediate deathwatch. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by dean.collins: Hey Owen, I think it's time for you to eat crow and admit you were wrong in your hasty assumptions. Dont worry... more » | Other threads
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