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Zynga Names VP Neil Roseman to Head Up Seattle Office

Zynga has hired Neil Roseman as VP in charge of building out the social gaming company’s Seattle office. Roseman, who has been serving as an independent advisor as of recently, was the former CEO of Evri, a semantic web startup funded by Paul Allen and one Amazon’s first VPs of Engineering. Roseman reports to Owen Van Natta, EVP of Business. Zynga will be looking at setting up offices in Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square neighborhood.

The Entire D6 Demo of evri

We’re posting all the interviews from the sixth D: All Things Digital conference that took place in late May. Unfortunately, due to issues too complicated to go into, we have to post all the D6 interviews in several 15-minute parts (I know, I know). But–as many readers have requested–they will all be available in their entirety in this column. In the less contentious spirit of DEMOfall and TechCrunch50, two demo conferences taking place simultaneously this week, we’re happy to bring you all the demos we had onstage at the D6 conference. Next up is evri, the semantic Web guide start-up, which is backed by billionaire techie Paul Allen and founded by former Amazon exec Neil Roseman.