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WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg: social and mobile is the “fourth phase of our evolution”
The founding developer of the popular blogging software WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, shared some of his thoughts about what’s next for the platform today. WordPress is completely open source, but Mullenweg founded the company behind the business arm ...
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Hey Mickey, You're So Fine: Meet the Man Who Landed Silicon Valley's Hottest Funding Deal in Pinterest

There’s no question that every venture capitalist within 100 miles of Silicon Valley wanted to squeeze their khaki-clad selves into what had become tech’s hottest deal of late.
That would be to get a piece of the new round of funding for soci...
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Even as Settlement Hopes Appear, Facebook Blames Shoddy Checking in Answer to Yahoo Patent Fraud Claim

When last we tuned in in the ongoing drama that is the patent infringement lawsuit that Yahoo aimed at Facebook, Yahoo had a CEO — Scott Thompson — who was full steam ahead in pressing the controversial legal action.
Now, multiple sources sai...
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Exclusive: Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (or Closer Cooperation)

According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue has approached Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and co-founder Jack Dorsey about moving off the board of Twitter.
It is not clear when McCue — who joined the board of the ...
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Google Chrome’s social theme tool is now available in 36 more languages
A few weeks ago, the Google Chrome team launched a new app in its store called My Chrome Theme, which allows you to create and share your own custom theme for Google’s browser.
Today, the team shared that My Chrome Theme is now available in 36 more ...
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Google Play gets Google+ functionality with “Shared With Me” for music
Sharing music is becoming a favorite social feature for many people with Facebook introducing the News Ticker and deep integration with apps like Spotify and Rdio using the Open Graph platform.
Letting people know what you’re listening to and what m...
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Facebook sent 160M visitors and 1.1B visits to mobile apps in April
The social mobile app boon is thanks in large part to Facebook and it’s Open Graph platform it launched last year at f8.
Many apps have seen explosive growth and engagement thanks to sharing actions on the Timeline of Facebook users, and the social ...
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Facebook IPO Docs Could Get Approval This Week, Followed by Road Show With Zuckerberg (No Guarantee on Tie)

According to sources close to the situation, Facebook is anticipating getting approval from government regulators to officially distribute its S-1 public offering prospectus to investors within days, which would mean its road show could begin as early as...
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Despite Crackdowns, Sina Still Winning the Weibo Game
Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo may be in the midst of its most aggressive crackdown yet following an explosion of political rumors among users, but it is still beating Tencent in the microblogging race in China, according to a McKinsey & Co. r...
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Viral Video: Dopetastic Winklevii

Oh, you surely already saw the Winklevii — the famous twin godlets who did not invent Facebook — on CNBC yesterday, but we had to also shove it up to maintain our 100 percent we’ll-post-whatever-those-goofs-do record.
Next chapter: They...
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Byte Me: Yahoo Files More Patent Claims Against Facebook

In spite of intense criticism against its patent infringement lawsuit in March, Yahoo filed additional claims against Facebook today.
“Today Yahoo! filed additional claims against Facebook in U.S. District Court in San Jose related to two additiona...
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New S-1: Facebook's Yearly Revenue Growth Up 45 Percent, But Down Six Percent From Last Quarter

Facebook filed an updated version of its S-1 public offering document today, which included first-quarter financials.
In the new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, its fourth update for its upcoming public offering, the social networking...
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All Things Hired: Bonnie Cha Is Our Latest ATD Reviewer

On the heels of our recent hiring of Mike Isaac to cover social tech for this site, Bonnie Cha will be joining the staff of All Things Digital as a senior reviewer.
She joins Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret, as well as recent hire Lauren Goode, as part o...
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In Pricey Microsoft Patent Deal, Facebook Delivers Another Smackdown to Yahoo Lawsuit

When I wrote that Facebook was going to play rough after Yahoo sued it for patent infringement earlier this year, perhaps it would have been more prescient to say that it was going to pay much.
Except not to Yahoo, whose bully-boy bluff has effectively j...
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Gmail adds photo and video thumbnails from Google+ to people widget
As expected, more of Google’s products are getting the social treatment with Google+ functionality. The latest project to get further “Plussed” is Gmail, and the features are actually quite handy.
The “people” widget that sh...
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Viral Video: Bubblicious, It's the Ultimate Silicon Valley Bubble

Here’s a video of an interview I did last week with CNN on whether there was a bubble in valuations of start-ups in Silicon Valley.
Of course, the report was prompted by the mobile photo-sharing phenom Instagram’s sale to social networking g...
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Welcome to ATD: The Very Social Mike Isaac

As many readers know, we have been adding to our staff here at AllThingsD, most recently in our new review section, with the addition of Lauren Goode earlier this year.
Now Walt Mossberg and I are proud to announce that Mike Isaac is joining our team to ...
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It's Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!)

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this email to Yahoo employees, about a new leadership organization for the company.
“It’s time for Yahoo! to move forward, and fast,” wrote Thompson (using punctuation I really like, with nice comma de...
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FaceTagram? InstaBook? Whatever You Call It, All Your Mobile Photo Are Belong to Facebook (for $1 Billion)!

If you want a quick analysis of why Facebook would pay $1 billion for popular photo-sharing service Instagram, please ignore the obvious financials that just don’t add up at all and have most of the typically unshockable digerati shocked by the she...
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L.A. Stories: What's the Frequency for Web Video Discovery? (Video)

Earlier this year, Peter Kafka wrote an update about Los Angeles-based Frequency, which is essentially a social TV Guide for online video.
I stopped by Frequency’s HQ — on a recent visit there to check out SoCal start-ups — to chat with...
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About.me makes social profiles mobile with iOS app and “Who’s Nearby” feature
The social profile network About.me, which was acquired by AOL in 2011 is continuing to expand its usefulness with a new iOS app that makes interacting with people easier.
About.me for iOS displays your profile beautifully on your device as well as tag pe...
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SF ad:tech – Advertisers understand “social”, but not everything that comes along with it

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As someone who isn’t ingrained in the culture of advertis...
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Yahoo and Twitter Get New Communications Heads From PayPal and Google
Big moves in the Internet PR biz, as Yahoo grabs Amanda Pires from eBay’s PayPal unit and Twitter snatches Google communications exec Gabriel Stricker.
Pires, who is currently senior director of communications and brand at PayPal, worked with new Ya...
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L.A. Stories: Mike Jones and Peter Pham Talk About the Science of Tech Studios (Video)

While swanning about Los Angeles last week, I paid a visit to a number of interesting techies, including Mike Jones and Peter Pham, who recently founded Science.
While there are a lot of incubators and accelerators out there fiddling with start-ups, the...
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SF ad:tech – Your data is all fun and games until someone wants to make money

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I’m here at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco and o...
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Here Are the 10 New Back-at-You Patent Exhibits in Facebook Versus Yahoo

Here are the actual 10 patents that Facebook is using in its just-filed counter-claim against Yahoo’s patent infringement lawsuit.
Several are held by Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as other employees of the social networking ...
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Google+ Profiles gets personal, now includes address book information from Google Contacts
The march towards merging all of Google’s products continues, and this time it’s Google Contacts that’s getting the social treatment.
The Google Contacts team announced last night that address book information will start being displaye...
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Viral Video: Tracy Morgan Can Cuss About Social Media in 140 Characters

I love “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan, most especially when he is naughty.
Which is pretty much all the time, including in this “Shorty Interview,” where Morgan talks about social media in 140 characters. Which irritates him. Which a...
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L.A. Stories: HipSwap Tries to Take the Creepy out of Craigslist (Video)

Last week, I visited Los Angeles to get a gander at some of the many digital companies that are doing some interesting things down south of Silicon Valley.
First stop: HipSwap, a community-based marketplace that is now in 14 U.S. cities after initial tes...
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Spotify's Special Projects Head Shakil Khan Moves to Path to Do Same

Shakil Khan, the well-known head of special projects for the popular Spotify music service, is taking a job with the same title at Path, the fast-growing personal social networking start-up.
Khan will be focusing on growth and international issues, and b...
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Why Wasn't SecondMarket Part of the SEC Pre-IPO Stock Attack? CEO Barry Silbert's Happy to Tell You on Quora.

It’s one thing to not be targeted in any regulatory action that strafed your competitors, but SecondMarket CEO Barry Silbert used the opportunity to tout just why his company missed the bullets.
In an unusual and interesting post on social answer s...
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Exclusive: BermanBraun Buys Most of Shelby Bonnie's Whiskey Media

In a deal that was just signed, longtime Silicon Valley exec Shelby Bonnie has sold his social publishing start-up, Whiskey Media, to Santa Monica-based entertainment and interactive production company BermanBraun.
As part of the deal, BermanBraun will g...
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Déjà Hoo: Yahoo Has Done the Pre-IPO Legal Shakedown Dance Before

A hot Internet company poised for an even hotter IPO is attacked in court by a competitor whose lunch it has been eating.
Sound familiar? Actually, it’s just as much Google in 2004 as Facebook yesterday.
What the pair have in common is Yahoo, for ...
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Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls "Puzzling" (Including Filing)

In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook.
The attack by the Silicon Valley Internet icon against perhaps the most powerful consumer social networkin...
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Worst But First: Yahoo Uses Words of Facebook's Zuckerberg to Poke Him in Patent Lawsuit

On the sixth page of its just filed patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo quotes the social networking company’s CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg:
“Getting there first is not what it’s all about.”
The quote, which Yahoo conten...
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Here Come the First D10 Speakers: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Entrepreneur Sean Parker, Zynga’s Mark Pincus and More on the Red Hot Seat
Even though our D: All Things Digital conference always sells out well in advance every year without our announcing even one single speaker (like this one, too), it’s the action on stage that truly matters.
And in 2012 — which also happens to ...
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Checking In With the Foursquare Founder Parting: More "Tense" (Of Course)
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This last weekend, Foursquare founder Naveen Selvadurai announced in a blog post that he was leaving the company, three years after launching the check-in service with Dennis Crowley. In a terse note, Sevaldurai wrote that he woul...
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Lilo Boosts SNL Online and Off, Despite Twittercism (Video)

Lindsay Lohan hosted “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, which gave the late-night comedy show a big 12 percent ratings boost and a few decent viral videos.
The talented actress-turned-perennial-tabloid-queen is not without her controversies...
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So It's the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo -- The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

It was Yahoo legal head Mike Callahan who had the thankless task yesterday of calling Facebook’s general counsel Ted Ullyot to tell him the Silicon Valley Internet giant was intent on pursuing patent lawsuits against the social networking giant.
Th...
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BBH London are looking to hire a Social Media Manager
Who we’re after
An experienced Social Media Manager. Someone who can help plan, directly implement and sustain brand relationships across various online social platforms for a range of BBH London clients. More often than not, you’ll be a integral member o...
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Future Human: Transparent Life
A version of this post originally appeared in the 16.02.12 edition of Campaign magazine.
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Billed as a dive into the “rapid evolution of data visualisation tools”, last week’s ‘Future Human: Transparent Life’ could hav...
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Facebook (Eye)PO: Early Investor Reid Hoffman on Mission Vs. Payday

With the seemingly endless mishegas at Yahoo these days, I have taken my eye off the Facebook IPO ball. (Eye)PO, get it!?!
But I am back until the next stumble in HooVille, with this interesting and short (and, I know, badly shot) video of Silicon Valley...
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Health Help: Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Talks About New CareZone Start-Up (Video)
I certainly was not expecting the kind of start-up that former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz — he of the fantastic ponytail — showed off to me at AllThingsD.com Global HQ earlier this week.
No enterprise. No servers. No software.
Ins...
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Lady Gaga’s strength in community starts to shine on ‘Little Monsters’
We all know how popular musician Lady Gaga is, but regardless of the popularity of her music she’s done something that not many other artists can say. She has built a sustainable and massive community around herself. She even gave her fans a name,...
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TasteMakerX Raises $1.8M for Mobile Social App Platform
TastemakerX, a San Francisco start-up that is developing a social mobile platform focused “targeted taste graphs,” said it had raised $1.8 million in funding from a variety of venture firms, including Guggenheim Partners, Baseline Ventures, Tr...
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Tidbits From the Facebook IPO Filing: I'll Have What SV VCs Marc Andreessen and Jim Breyer Are Having!

Because I am an obessive-compulsive and Facebook is my new target of stalkery, I have re-read its IPO filing from earlier this week about nine times so far.
It’s chock full of interesting little bits of tasty info about the Silicon Valley social ne...
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From the Life-Is-Unfair Files: You're Welcome, Winklevii. Love, Zuck.

Persistence — even if it is the whiny, likely undeserved, lunkheaded legal version of it — certainly pays off.
But you have to marvel at the bizarre karma going on, given that my favorite matching pair of digital ottomans, Cameron and Tyler W...
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During the IPO Quiet Period, Please Enjoy the D Stylings of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (Video)

We’ve been fortunate to host Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg twice on the stage of the D: All Things Digital conference, including one appearance with COO Sheryl Sandberg.
With the blockbuster IPO filing of the social networking giant y...
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Dude, Where's My Facebook IPO Filing? (Ashton's on Hold!)

Okay, okay, we get it: Morgan Stanley got the coveted left-hand lead position on Facebook’s blockbuster IPO filing. Goldman Sachs is there, too, but in the third-place, always-a-bridesmaid spo,t and is crying big salty tears about the injustice of ...
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Go the F**k Back to Sleep, Silicon Valley: Facebook IPO Likely to File Later Today at Earliest

Like political junkies waiting up for election returns (losers!), Silicon Valley folks, including tech journalists (losers!), are up this morning to await and then pounce on the long-expected IPO filing of Facebook.
But, several sources said, the social ...
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