Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 10:29 am PT
It is always nice when an intern makes good, and that is entirely the case with Drake Martinet, who joins
All Things Digital–as of yesterday, in fact.
We could not be happier. Plus, we knew he was our kind of geek after he agreed to spend the night in a tent next to Robert Scoble, to cover last year’s Apple iPad release.
Drake will be working on a range of things for
ATD, from social and multimedia efforts to site analytics to discovering and writing about promising but nascent tech start-ups.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on May 28, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT
This week, we coffee’d at Coupa Cafe on the Stanford University campus to interview Ben Zotto. He’s the mind behind Cocoa Box Design, the app company responsible for Penultimate, a sleeper hit at the iPad App Store.
Ben is developing popular software that is just a little outside of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s vision for his “magical” device. That doesn’t seem to bother Zotto though.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on May 7, 2010 at 4:05 am PT
Never heard of Demotix? Don’t feel too bad, its founder says it’s a common problem. The London-based journalism start-up now operates in over 190 countries and territories and describes itself as a “street journalism” wire service. Our talk with founder and COO Jonathan Tepper gets into detail about how to do journalism and (hopefully) turn a profit.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in Social on April 30, 2010 at 3:41 am PT
This week, we stopped by Ooga Labs, a little incubator on Market Street in San Francisco, to meet Kent Lindstrom, CEO of PlacePop. PlacePop is an iPhone app and Web site, advertised as a check-in sharing service like Foursquare, but without the game.
Hmm… a start-up touting that it does LESS, you say? And the CEO used to run Friendster?
We
had to see about this.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on April 16, 2010 at 8:56 pm PT
This week we caught up with the globe-trotting David Maher Roberts, CEO of The Filter, a media recommendation engine founded by music legend Peter Gabriel.
David commutes between the United Kingdom where he lives and the United States, where he works. We found him during a stop in Texas, appropriately via Skype.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on March 26, 2010 at 1:09 pm PT
In this installment of “Almost Famous,” which we call “Need to Know,” focusing on less prominent but very important tech execs you need to know better, we did an interview with Chris Messina.
He’s a recent get by Google who is all about opening the Web. He’s a designer by training, so be ready for all kinds of visual metaphors, like walled gardens, tearing down silos and keeping the Web from looking like Nascar.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on March 12, 2010 at 2:30 am PT
This week: We grabbed a Caltrain up to San Francisco to meet with Lance Podell, CEO of Next New Networks, the Web video network whose shows usually mix hi-fi production and lo-fi hosts for that ultra-Webby feel that the kids are raving about.
Or so Podell hopes.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on March 5, 2010 at 1:35 am PT
This week: We took a coffee break with Mehdi Maghsoodnia, CEO over at Bookrenter.com. In Web 1.0 style, they do what their name suggests–rent textbooks to students and try to compete with school bookstores, Amazon, and a certain egg-themed competitor.
Chegg it out.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on February 26, 2010 at 6:16 pm PT
This week: We dropped by the Gates Computer Science building at Stanford University for an interview with Pat Hanrahan. He isn’t just a professor of computer science and electrical engineering–he’s also the chief technology officer at Tableau, a software start-up that specializes in data visualization for businesses.
Why do we think he’s the epitome of geek-chic? Maybe because he’s also a two-time Oscar winner. Seriously.
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Drake Martinet, Intern, All Things Digital in News on February 16, 2010 at 1:50 am PT
This week, we got an all-access pass for an interview with Julia Hartz, president and co-founder of Eventbrite, the Web-based ticketing company. We talked about life with a husband for a co-founder, the Silicon Valley state of mind and how she gives Ticketmaster five years to live.
