Kara Swisher

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Facebook Ad Guy Deja Vu

Since I will be posting a piece later today about Yahoo’s new ad guy, here is a link–for those who did not see it–about my recent visit to Facebook, including a long interview with Mike Murphy, Facebook’s ad guy. The video is also posted below again.

Murphy, in fact, came from Yahoo, where he was a longtime and high-ranking sales exec. He hopes to jump-start the Facebook business and prove that social networking can be just as lucrative an advertising market as it has been and continues to be–despite the recent spate of difficulties–for Yahoo.

Here’s the video of Murphy talking about it:


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I feel sorry for Peter Thiel. Did he really want flying cars? Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another. On the other hand, 20 years ago we had the idea that information could become available at your fingertips. We got that done.

— Bill Gates, in an interview with Wired magazine’s Steven Levy