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Video Tour of Redesign: Back to the Future at MySpace? Or Just Another Retread?

Kara Swisher in News on March 10, 2010 at 5:19 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown visited MySpace HQ in Beverly Hills, Calif., to interview its new co-presidents, Michael Jones and Jason Hirschhorn, and get a look-see at its evolving revival plans to stop the social networking ship from sinking further. Thus, I did a video tour of a storyboard-like room at MySpace, where the team is trying to formulate the “discover and be discovered” motto it is now using, which is pretty much its old motto restated. Can the old become new again?

The Outage Aftermath: Louie Swisher Hearts Facebook, but Twitter Not So Much

Kara Swisher in News on August 7, 2009 at 1:37 pm PT

Like grandmother, like grandson. Yesterday, I told my No. 1 son, Louie, that Twitter was down, after a denial-of-service attack. He was–shall we say–not very sympathetic, as you will see in the video following the jump. Interestingly, Louie’s response was similar to my mother’s, who mocked the microblogging service at a gas station on the way to my interview with its founders at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference. As it turns out, though, data actually back them up. (Plus, see their videos too.)