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Friday, October 19, 2007

Kara Visits Web 2.0 Summit: Day 2

Here’s some more video from the halls of Web 2.0 Summit, which is taking place this week in San Francisco.
Look to John Paczkowski of Digital Daily for liveblogging from the conference yesterday, which included appearances by Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and eBay’s Meg Whitman.
Today is the final day, with digital bigshots onstage like: AT&T’s Randall Stephenson, [...]

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Dinner and Chatting with Rupe (aka BoomTown’s New Boss)

Did I wangle a seat right next to soon-to-be Dow Jones owner Rupert Murdoch last night at the Web 2.0 Summit dinner?
Of course I did, continuing in the shameless BoomTown tradition of trying to get gratis meals with moguls (like our ongoing efforts to raise money for DonorsChoose.org and get a free lunch with Yahoo [...]

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Kara Visits Web 2.0 Summit: Day 1

Here’s some video from the halls of Web 2.0 Summit, which is taking place this week in San Francisco.
As you will see, it is quite the Bubblefest, with all sorts of geeky bonhomie and aspiring hopefulness of also landing a $15 billion valuation, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg noted he was about to do onstage [...]

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Mirror, Mirror on the Super Wall: Who’s the Leakiest One of All?

We know Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is all hot and bothered about the news and quotes that have been appearing in BoomTown–like this post from yesterday–especially related to the recent round of funding the social-networking start-up has been pursuing at a $15 billion valuation and most especially if it comes from a “Facebook exec” or [...]

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Friday, October 12, 2007

The Week to Come: Lots of Money Stuff and Rupe Visits the Geeks!

For those making plans for next week on this lovely Friday, here’s a few things to look forward to in BoomTown, including a visit by our new Big Boss Rupert Murdoch of News Corp. to San Francisco.

(And should we take it personally that he still hasn’t called to ask to inspect AllThingsD HQ–also known as the ramshackle cottage behind my house–when he is here?)

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Web 2.0 Dinner and Schmoozefest

I went to a dinner last night hosted by John Battelle and Tim O’Reilly of the Web 2.0 Summit, and it was one of the more schmoozy events I have been to in a while.
The event–this year at Foreign Cinema in the Mission District of San Francisco–is held to elicit feedback from the Internet’s movers [...]

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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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