OK, I am definitely not Princess Grace-worthy (well, who is?). But I am headed right now to her glam neck of the woods for the Monaco Media Forum, which is set to take place from tomorrow through Saturday in Monte Carlo. Hosted by HSH Prince Albert II, its subhead this year is “Leadership for the Digital Revolution,” and the group gathered is pretty heady and packed with American Webheads, as well as from around the globe.
Yesterday, the battle between InterActiveCorp.’s Barry Diller and John Malone of Liberty Media got much more interesting.
As luck would have it, I will be interviewing Diller on stage at the Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo this week–yes, it’s as glamorous as it sounds–so now there will be lots more to talk to him about at the digital gathering. Diller is an excellent interview as he likes to parry more than the average CEO and he is good at it.
Very good, as it turns out, when dealing with Malone.
Also in BoomTown today:
Marc Canter talks a blue streak about Google’s OpenSocial and we actually listen!
Don’t miss this most excellent article by Jessica E. Vascellaro in The Wall Street Journal this past weekend about the mogul-tussle–an Olympic sport!–between IAC/InterActiveCorp.’s Barry Diller and John Malone of Liberty Media (both pictured here).
It’s called: “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” And what are they fighting over? Control, of course, and big piles of money [...]
Now, in living color, the entire historic joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Jobs of Apple.
D: All Things Digital, the annual tech and media conference Walt Mossberg and I host, has been sold out with a long wait list every year we have put it on.
That has meant only a few hundred people [...]
For those who missed it in “The Sopranos” frenzy (and stop arguing now–it was a good ending), CBS’s “60 Minutes” did a pretty warm and fuzzy profile of media and Internet mogul Barry Diller on Sunday.
He comes off charming and smooth, expertly batting away all suggestions by interviewer Lesley Stahl that he is tough to work for, or too imperious, or paid too much or that his various Internet companies under the InterActiveCorp banner are too disparate.
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