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Hello Ryan!

by Kara Swisher
Posted on July 17, 2007 at 4:15 AM PT

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While we were visiting at Mahalo, we ran right into Ryan Block, the majordomo of Engadget–the geek-lovers’ Web site that was once part of Jason Calacanis’s Weblogs empire. It is now owned by AOL, which forked over a large bag of cash, mostly due to the popularity of Engadget, to buy the company.

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Block was getting ready to throw a party for attendees of the E3 games conference in Santa Monica, Calif., so we decided to have a little video chat about the iPhone–Engadget’s bread and butter of late, including such posts as an imagined mock-up for a cheaper next-generation Apple device pictured here–and also WAP and other trends.

But, of course, we asked about life at AOL. Sorry, Ryan!

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  • P.S -My comment about the free camera was only because Kara was filming this using a PureDigital camcorder --the kind you get for free if you let some place like CVS make you a DVD of the video you record -- not because I think she's on the take. Then again, she is blogging, and the internet would have us know only bloggers take bribes...

    Think about it.
  • Free video players at CVS! The next thing you know they'll be handing out iPhones to those who buy a year's supply of alli
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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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