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Viral Video: "Fast Five" Trailer Debuts on Vin Diesel's Facebook Fan Page

Kara Swisher in News on December 16, 2010 at 12:30 am PT

There are certainly a lot of movie trailers on the Web, but this one made its first appearance on the Facebook fan page of its meaty star. That would be action star Vin Diesel, who is the star of the “Fast and Furious” car thief series and has–no, really, including BoomTown–20 million fans on the social networking site.

TwitterGate: Out Damned Spot!

Kara Swisher in News on July 16, 2009 at 3:10 am PT

For all the noisy hubbub over should-we-or-shouldn’t-we-publish confidential documents hacked from password-protected accounts of Twitter employees, as well as a Twitter spouse, it is actually pretty simple. Stolen equals stolen. But, because this is a “hot” issue and it concerns an even hotter Web 2.0 company–Holy traffic-gooser, Batman!–the debate will surely go on and on, even as the stolen information inevitably leaks its way out. Still, let’s not pretend what it is and is not.