Adam D’Angelo

Quora Moves Beyond Writing to Curating

Liz Gannes in Social on December 19, 2011 at 3:19 pm PT

No longer just a question-and-answer site, today Quora launched a social bookmarking feature called Boards.

VCs Pay Up for Second(ary) Chance to Invest in Web Winners

Liz Gannes in Social on February 15, 2011 at 2:14 pm PT

Apparently some folks wanted extra cash to buy ultra-deluxe Christmas gifts last year. Current employees of private companies made up the largest single portion of stock sellers on SecondMarket in December, a huge leap from prior months.

Vicarious Systems Says Its Artificial Intelligence Is the Real Deal

Tomio Geron, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 10, 2011 at 12:41 pm PT

A number of websites, such as Face.com and Google Inc.’s Like.com, provide facial-recognition tools that enable users to search through digital photos. But new stealthy start-up Vicarious Systems intends to go much further with its artificial intelligence software.

Instagram Raises $7M Led by Benchmark

Liz Gannes in Social on February 2, 2011 at 9:08 am PT

The photo-sharing community Instagram this morning announced it has closed $7 million in a first-round funding led by Benchmark Capital’s Matt Cohler.

A Few Holiday Photos From Tech's Cool Kids: What They Did on Winter Vacation

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 2, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

For many in tech, 2010 was the year of photo sharing. So, in honor of a big year of sharing photos with friends, here is a quick gallery of shots from the holidays, gathered with care from the walls and feeds of a few of tech’s most social shutterbugs.

BoomTown Tries to Get Some Answers From Quora's Adam D'Angelo

Kara Swisher in News on October 11, 2010 at 10:56 am PT

Adam D’Angelo is too shy to subject himself to a BoomTown video–or perhaps too savvy–but he did agree to a sit-down for a short interview recently in a nondescript room in the Palo Alto, Calif., office building that houses Quora, the hot social answers start-up. D’Angelo was, of course, the CTO and VP of Engineering at Facebook, as well as a prep school friend of the massive social networking site’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

Say You, Say (Google) Me–When Will the Search Giant Get Social Graces?

Kara Swisher in News on August 25, 2010 at 8:16 am PT

We all want to be something else, don’t we? And so it is with Google, the robotic, algorithmic, black-box search behemoth girding the globe with datacenters stacked up to heaven. As it turns out, all it really wants is to be our friend. The big question is when it is going to do that, by introducing a social strategy that actually works, even as perceived rival Facebook barrels ahead.

Where in the World Is Owen Van Natta? Try Zynga…

Kara Swisher in News on July 15, 2010 at 10:15 am PT

After longtime Internet tech exec Owen Van Natta was ousted from his job as CEO of MySpace last February, he seemed to drop off the map a bit to chillax and regroup. Not for long, though, as the former Facebook COO and Amazon exec soon began doing mentoring and unofficial consulting work with various Silicon Valley start-ups. Most especially, according to numerous sources, that effort has been largely focused on Zynga, the red-hot social gaming company, where many think he might eventually land as a top exec.