Randi Zuckerberg

What’s Really Behind The Facebook/Google Real Name Debate?

Liz Gannes in Social on August 8, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

It seems to me that the larger issue in this ongoing real names debate is not who you say you are, but the usefulness of a unified Web identity.

A New Kind of Marketing Company From Former Apple Exec Forming With Backing of Twitter’s Dorsey

Kara Swisher in Media on August 8, 2011 at 3:51 pm PT

Is another “disruptive” marketing company coming to Silicon Valley?

Exclusive: Randi Zuckerberg Leaves Facebook to Start New Social Media Firm (Resignation Letter)

Kara Swisher in News on August 3, 2011 at 1:23 pm PT

Randi Zuckerberg, who is director of marketing at Facebook and also the sister of CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg — is leaving the company. IMHO, Facebook just got 100 percent less fun.

Viral Video: "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop" (at SXSW)

Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2011 at 1:43 am PT

Conan O’Brien has been all over the South by Southwest festival this week, hawking a new documentary about his time wandering in the late-night talk television wilderness after he left “The Tonight Show” last year, titled “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop.” His hysterical journey, of course, was deftly played out by O’Brien all over the Internet, which was definitely on “Team Coco.”

BoomTown Talks Girl Geek at Facebook Hack Event

Kara Swisher in News on September 13, 2010 at 8:08 am PT

This Saturday, BoomTown gassed up the Mini and motored on down to Facebook’s newest building for a Developer Garage and Hackathon, which the social networking giant did in partnership with Girls in Tech. The goal was to focus on women developers, although there were plenty of dudes in attendance, as per usual at any all-night nerd-off. Facebook, feeling empowered, gave me the stage. Oops!

Viral Video: Facebook Live vs. Google Beat

Kara Swisher in News on September 7, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

While the Silicon Valley digital giants are fighting on much bigger playing fields, BoomTown is enjoying the mini-battle brewing between Facebook Live and Google Beat. What, pray tell, are those?

Exclusive: Facebook Will Announce 500 Million Users Next Week With "Facebook Stories"

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2010 at 5:17 pm PT

Facebook expects to announce its 500-millionth user next week, and will mark the occasion with a new consumer marketing initiative called “Facebook Stories.” Last week, BoomTown got wind of the effort–which will center on a variety of life stories from users about the impact of the social networking site on their lives–and asked Facebook about it. The company confirmed its impending launch and put Randi Zuckerberg on the horn to tell me the story behind “Stories.”

Take That E!: Facebook Invades the Golden Globes–The Scandalous Video!

Kara Swisher in News on January 17, 2010 at 11:59 pm PT

Who says Facebook can’t be an online content company too? Not the passel of folks from the social networking behemoth, who plucked, primped and transformed themselves into a pack of glamorous nerds to hit the red carpet at the Golden Globes Awards ceremony in Beverly Hills earlier tonight. In other words: Silicon Valley meets Silicone Valley!

"Changing the World Through the Web": Video Interviews with Zuckerberg, Kutcher, Rospars and Shah

Kara Swisher in News on October 28, 2009 at 7:19 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown moderated a panel at California’s Women’s Conference titled “Changing the World Through the Web” for a crowd of several thousand people. The panelists included Hollywood actor/producer, Katalyst co-founder and Twitter demigod Ashton Kutcher; Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg, who leads the social networking site’s elections, breaking news and social change initiatives; Premal Shah, president of online microloan site Kiva.org; and Joe Rospars, founder and creative director of Blue State Digital and new media director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Here are video interviews I did with each of them.

Kara Visits the Women's Conference (Questions for Ashton Kutcher, Please!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2009 at 1:57 am PT

This morning, BoomTown will be onstage at California First Lady Maria Shriver’s well-known Women’s Conference in Long Beach, Calif., to moderate a panel titled “Changing the World Through the Web.” The panelists include Hollywood actor/producer, Katalyst co-founder and Twitter demigod Ashton Kutcher; Facebook’s Randi Zuckerberg; Premal Shah of Kiva.org; and Blue State Digital’s Joe Rospars, who was also new media director for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. In other words, as a group, they are all either prettier, smarter or better for the planet than anything I have ginned up so far.