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		<title>Kara Visits Offbeat Guides!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, I went on a trek to downtown San Francisco--from ATD HQ, located in the wilds of the Castro--to visit David Sifry, the jovial Web entrepreneur who recently launched Offbeat Guides.

The San Francisco-based start-up makes "personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations, using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts."

In other words, on-demand travel books with a touch of humanity.]]></description>
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<p>This week, I went on a trek to downtown San Francisco&#8211;from ATD HQ, located in the wilds of the Castro&#8211;to visit David Sifry, the jovial Web entrepreneur who recently launched <a href="http://www.offbeatguides.com">Offbeat Guides</a>.</p>
<p>The San Francisco-based start-up makes &#8220;personalized, up-to-date travel guides that cover over 30,000 travel destinations, using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, on-demand travel books, with a touch of humanity&#8211;an obvious and even innovative trend as custom printing gets cheaper.</p>
<p>But Sifry is also putting the guides on digital devices, like the Kindle from Amazon (AMZN).</p>
<p>Sifry, who also founded the blog search engine Technorati, talked to BoomTown about the business and gave me a quick tour of its HQ near Union Square.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video interview:</p>
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		<title>Kara Visits DLD in Germany: The Naomi Campbell Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company&#8217;s DLD&#8211;Digital, Life, Design&#8211;conference in Munich yesterday?
I have no idea, nor do I know why Burda broke out into song either&#8211;how much do you have to love a media mogul willing to do that?
But I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why was supermodel Naomi Campbell suddenly standing right next to German publisher Hubert Burda at the final lunch for his company&#8217;s DLD&#8211;Digital, Life, Design&#8211;conference in Munich yesterday?</p>
<p>I have no idea, nor do I know why Burda broke out into song either&#8211;how much do you have to love a media mogul willing to do that?</p>
<p>But I got it all on video and a whole lot more on the last day of the pre-Davos European gathering focused on digital issues and innovation.</p>
<p>(And here is a post by <a href="http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/general/kara-swisher-and-simon-levene-are-not-impressed-by-naomi-campbell.html">European serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky</a>, who apparently thinks his video shows that Accel Partners&#8217; Simon Levene and I were not impressed enough by Campbell.)</p>
<p>In any case, DLD&#8217;s motto was: &#8220;Uploading the 21st Century.&#8221; And while it did not quite do that, there were definitely a lot of interesting moments I captured for your viewing pleasure. </p>
<p>Along with Campbell (who was supposed to appear on a panel on Africa, but did not) and a singing Burda, the video features clips from two sessions today.</p>
<p>The first was titled  &#8220;Exploding Media&#8221; and included: pundit Clay Shirky riffing on flash mobs; a very funny clip of kids talking about television (made by Technorati&#8217;s Peter Hirshberg); Google&#8217;s Marissa Mayer noting that Google will <em>still</em> not be in the content business; Yahoo&#8217;s Bradley Horowitz discussing Yahoo&#8217;s plans to de-focus on making original content; and BuzzMachine blogger Jeff Jarvis advising old media to just ask WWGD? (What would Google do?). </p>
<p>Another session on the video features the founders of the genetics-focused social-networking company <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071119/kara-visits-23andme/">23andMe</a>&#8211;Anne Wojcicki, Linda Avey and Esther Dyson&#8211;answering questions about fears people have about learning too much about DNA.</p>
<p>Here is the video (and now I am off to Hamburg to visit <a href="http://www.xing.com/">Xing</a>, a business social-networking company):</p>
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