10 posts and columns on intern

Facebook Acqhirees Make a Quick Mark on Its Products

in Social on November 23, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Facebook has a well-defined M&A strategy of bringing in talent from young, small companies and shutting down their products. But there’s also a pattern emerging for what happens to that talent. Acqhired CEOs hold prominent roles on Facebook’s product team; nearly every recent Facebook product launch seems to have been introduced by an acqhired employee.

Intern Becomes Real Live Blog Dude–ATD Hires Drake Martinet

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.

Viral Video: More Nerdtastic Interns Rapping…

in News on July 27, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

Oh, let’s just go with this summer-intern-rapping meme, shall we? Here’s a trio of super-nerds at Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures in the Seattle area–Bellevue, Wash., actually–trying to best the efforts of Cisco intern Greg Justice, who imperiously dubbed himself “The World’s Most Interesting Intern.” And extra points for the lab coats!

Cisco Intern Rapper Beware! Here's a Challenge From Yahoo Intern Dude.

in News on June 30, 2010 at 5:01 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown posted a video from a rapping intern at Cisco named Greg Justice, who dubbed himself the “world’s most interesting” intern. The claim prompted another intern from Yahoo, Rich Yueh, to send me a very good video he made in 2007, which won an internal video contest at the Internet giant.

If a Cisco Intern Raps on YouTube, Does It Make an Interesting Sound?

in News on June 28, 2010 at 10:02 am PT

Here’s a video of Greg Justice, a social media intern in the Cisco Systems Communications department, who has just dubbed himself “The World’s Most Interesting Intern.” A sample of a challenge Justice is putting out to other corporate summer servants via a rap song: “I’m courteous and affable, my name badge is retractable/You other interns laughable, your thermos must be half as full.”

Meet the Two Grad Students Who Freaked Out the NYT–The Pulse iPad App Creators Speak!

in News on June 8, 2010 at 6:17 pm PT

The first thing to strike you about the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the banned and then unbanned news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, is how they look like an advertisement for all that is good about entrepreneurship. Sweet-natured, slightly naive, energetic and very product focused, they are the last techies you’d choose to be the ones who got the New York Times in enough of a tizzy to force Apple to pull the news aggregator from its App Store. See for yourself in this video.

Pulse iPad App Gets Steve Jobs's Praise in Morning…Then Booted From App Store Hours Later After NYT Complains

in News on June 8, 2010 at 12:53 am PT

Yesterday morning, the pair of Stanford University graduate students who made the hot news-reading iPad app, Pulse News Reader, were ecstatic to be mentioned first–for being among the most promising developers for the new tablet device–by Apple CEO Steve Jobs in his keynote address to the Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. But by afternoon, that flush of entrepreneurial success had turned sour, when Apple informed the two that Pulse was being pulled from the App Store after it received a written notice from the New York Times Company declaring that “The New York Times Company believes your application named ‘Pulse News Reader’ infringes The New York Times Company’s rights.” Pulse was down completely by 6:30 pm PT last night.

Yes, BoomTown Made Drake, the ATD Intern, Camp Out for the iPad

in News on April 5, 2010 at 3:18 am PT

This weekend, while BoomTown was still indisposed, All Things Digital intern Drake Martinet was dispatched to the Palo Alto, Calif., Apple store–in the heart of Silicon Valley–to camp out with the freaks and geeks awaiting the 9 am PT sale of the iPad on Saturday. Yes, he camped all night to nab two of them “magic tablets.” Here are the mission-accomplished videos.

Memo to Apple: You Might Want to Dispatch an iPad Team to Stanford U ASAP!

in News on January 29, 2010 at 2:22 am PT

Here’s a video that the intrepid All Things Digital intern, Drake Martinet, did on the campus of Stanford University–located in the heart of Silicon Valley–right after Apple launched its new iPad tablet computer earlier this week. His mission: To find out if the students at the famous institution of higher learning–presumably one of the big consumer targets for Apple–were going to go out and get an iPad asap.