6 posts and columns on Diane Sawyer

Liveblogging the Unveiling of the SFund at Facebook (With Guest Stars: Kleiner, Amazon and Zynga)

in News on October 21, 2010 at 10:44 am PT

BoomTown had to park a badillion miles away from Facebook’s suburban HQ in Palo Alto, and hoofed it there for a press event that unveiled the sFund. What’s that? A $250 million fund for social start-ups. Party on.

Weekend Viral Video: Mark Zuckerberg Gets the Kid-Glove Treatment From ABC's Sawyer

in News on July 23, 2010 at 3:58 pm PT

After a tough summer–including creepy trailers for a Hollywood movie in which he seems to be portrayed as the awkward villain and also his sometimes difficult session at the eighth D: All Thing Digital conference with me and Walt Mossberg–Mark Zuckerberg catches a break in an easy-peasy multi-part television interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. It aired earlier in the week, and a smilier-than-usual Facebook co-founder and CEO does a good job lobbing back Sawyer’s queries, which touch on the usual controversies (privacy, I-know-what-you-did-at-Harvard), the usual gee-whiz Silicon Valley oohing and, of course, the obsession with Zuckerberg’s age (upon which I declare an official BoomTown moratorium, since he is no longer that young).

Jon Stewart Plays Chatroulette, And We All Win

in Media on March 5, 2010 at 8:31 am PT

We’ve done a pretty good job of avoiding Chatroulette talk here. But this is worth breaking our unofficial ban: Jon Stewart’s take on the voyeur site–and, of course, the media’s obsession with it.

Dear SNL: Facebook Will Force You to Friend Betty White

in News on February 18, 2010 at 8:15 am PT

Of all the whacked-out Internet schemes that get cooked up to promote some such thing or another–like crowning Ashton Kutcher as King Twit–BoomTown has finally picked one that seems to make a whole lot of sense. That would be the grassroots movement on Facebook to get “Saturday Night Live” to invite legendary comic actress Betty White to host the late-night comedy television show.

On the Internet, Everybody Knows You’re a Name-Caller: Google Unmasks the “Skank” Blogger

in Media on August 19, 2009 at 8:21 am PT

Want to call someone a “skank” on the Web while remaining anonymous? Might want to rethink that: Following an order from a New York court, Google has outed a woman who insulted a former model using the company’s Blogger service.
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