All Things Digital

Skip to main content.

BoomTown

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Best of 2007 Video: Kara Visits Facebook

Over the next week, I will be posting the most popular videos on BoomTown from 2007.
Here’s a video I did on a visit to Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto, Calif., that I made in July, 2007. In it, I take a gander at the offices (complete with artistic graffiti) and chat with a passel of [...]

Read More »

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Rumors, Rumors Everywhere, but Not a Lot to Think (Except AOL-Quigo?)

So there is a lot of swirl out there about a spate of companies and their supposed plans.
In the interest of time-saving, we will group them all here in one easy list that you can clip and save.
DEALS AFOOT?:
Yes, there is always a lot of sniffing around out there, especially given that a lot of [...]

Read More »

Monday, August 6, 2007

Facebook Ad Guy Deja Vu

Since I will be posting a piece later today about Yahoo’s new ad guy, here is a link–for those who did not see it–about my recent visit to Facebook, including a long interview with Mike Murphy, Facebook’s ad guy. The video is also posted below again.
Murphy, in fact, came from Yahoo, where he was a [...]

Read More »

Thursday, July 19, 2007

More on Chatty Marketing … Blah, Blah, Blah

Is there a trend in my post yesterday about the deal former Hollywood execs Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman struck with Pepsi to make original online content that the entertainment and marketing arm of the beverage giant will have a chance to fund and sponsor?

Read More »

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Kara Visits Facebook

It’s true I have been bugging Facebook–the Internet company of the moment–about showing me the money, that is to say the secret master plan to turn the popular social-networking site into a cash-gushing business.

Thus, I finally got a sit-down with the Money Guy at Facebook, Media Sales Vice President Mike Murphy.
I had known the affable [...]

Read More »

Latest BoomTown Videos

More Videos »

About Kara

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 »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

Read more »