Twitter And The Mark Zuckerberg Interview

When I arrived 15-minutes into the now famous interview of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, by BusinessWeek reporter Sarah Lacy the audience had already turned (it was two days ago and it still is the #1 topic of conversation on blogs and at SXSW, which is the conference that this happened at).

R.E.M. Launching New Album On iLike

When someone suggested that Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., release the band’s new album “Accelerate” on the social networking site iLike - he liked the idea. The move will make history and is another sign of the music industry’s loss of power.The entire album will be streamed on the site a week before it is released to the public on April 1st. Hopefully…

Extreme Places On Google Earth

Frank Taylor points out on his Google Earth Blog that a member of the Google Earth Community has put together an interesting collection of extreme places on Earth.

Eyeblaster Ad Firm Files For IPO

While it might be fun to discuss a toy with which kids should never be allowed to play, we're instead going to talk about a company that deals with online advertising.  Eyeblaster, as it's called, has filed for an IPO.

EU Allows Google, DoubleClick Merger

The process took longer than Google would have liked, but ultimately the European Union agreed with Google's position that the DoubleClick deal would merge complementary ad businesses.