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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Europe Redux

For your Thanksgiving entertainment, don’t be so American! Go abroad! See the world! BoomTown did!
Here are links to the posts I have done from BoomTown’s trip to Europe–with glamorous stops in England, France and Monaco (and all the videos are below too!)–in chronological order going backward:

Kara Visits the Royal Society in London

Kara Visits Cambridge University
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Kara Visits the Monaco Media Forum: More Interviews on the French Riviera!

Here are some more video interviews I did at the Monaco Media Forum last week.
Talking about a range of Web issues, the interviewees include pundit and investor Esther Dyson, Real Networks’ Rob Glaser, Simon Assaad of Heavy, BSkyB’s James Murdoch and the ubiquitous Quincy Smith of CBS:

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Monaco Media Forum: Barry Diller Is Not Shy

One of the great things about interviewing Barry Diller, the Hollywood mogul turned Internet impresario (via InterActiveCorp), is that he actually answers questions you ask him.

Here is a sampling of quotes from my one-on-one interview with him onstage at the Monaco Media Forum on Friday morning, taken from the not-so-audible audio of my Flip [...]

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Friday, November 9, 2007

Kara Visits the Monaco Media Forum: Opening Dinner

So, the Monaco Media Forum in Monte-Carlo kicked off last night with a dinner at the famed Hermitage Hotel on the Square Beaumarchais.
It was a fancy gold-leaf setting for the gathering of Silicon Valley and European digital media execs, investors and entrepreneurs, a kickoff to two days of discussion about the state of tech [...]

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Kara Visits Monte-Carlo

So before the Monaco Media Forum began last night and I had to get all Web 2.0 again, BoomTown succumbed to the charms of this luxe town on the Riviera–home of James Bond movie moments, tax-evading expats and a whole lot of European royalty.

In others words, quantum levels of classiness above where we exist (although [...]

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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Kara Visits the Monaco Media Forum

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.

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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.

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