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Why American Newspapers Gave Away the Future (Excerpt)

Richard J. Tofel, General Manager, ProPublica in Voices on February 8 at 9:27 am PT

Maybe the extinction of newspapers was inevitable once digital publishing moved from proprietary services and the slow speeds of dial-up delivery to the open access of the worldwide Web.

EA Kicking Off New In-Game Advertising Efforts With Madden Sweepstakes

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 9, 2011 at 9:00 am PT

Electronic Arts will give a new Chevy Cruze to the lucky player who masters the free version of Madden NFL 12 that became available for download this morning on Xbox and PlayStation.

Viral Video: The Whole Fuddy-Duddy "60 Minutes" Zuckerberg Interview

Kara Swisher in News on December 6, 2010 at 12:11 am PT

Here is the whole CBS interview on “60 Minutes” last night of Mark Zuckerberg. The quick poll of the piece on Twitter and in the blogosphere: The Facebook co-founder and CEO did great and his Harvard University nemisii, the Winklevoss twins, looked goony and graspy (even though Zuck did sandbag them).

CBS's "60 Minutes" Revisits Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (And BoomTown Takes Back "Toddler CEO" Title)

Kara Swisher in News on December 1, 2010 at 3:49 pm PT

This Sunday, the CBS news magazine “60 Minutes” returns to Facebook after several years to check in on co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the first interview by correspondent Lesley Stahl in early 2008, Zuckerberg’s social networking empire was much smaller, beset by a series of management snafus and mired in yet another privacy controversy. Plus, he was more than a lot more awkward. Fast-forward to today: Zuckerberg rules one of the most powerful tech companies in the world and BoomTown dubs him a prodigy! The worm has officially turned.

The New Yorker's "Face of Facebook"

Kara Swisher in News on September 13, 2010 at 4:52 am PT

The New Yorker finally came out with its profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today, “The Face of Facebook.” And while the piece by Jose Antonio Vargas reads well, there is not much new in it for those who have followed the career of the young wunderkind of social networking. Except the irony of the “The West Wing” Like button part.

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Almost Famous: Chris Messina of Google

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.