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Report: Linden Lab CEO Rosedale plans to step down

Authored by Jay Baage on March 14, 2008 - 11:00am.

San Francisco - Linden Lab, maker of the online virtual world Second Life, is looking for someone to fill founder and chief executive Philip Rosedale’s shoes as he will step down, according to Reuters.

Analysis: LinkedIn Is Becoming More and More Important to Recruiters

Authored by Robin Goad on January 28, 2008 - 6:48am.
LinkedIn is part social network, part jobs site. Facebook is the fifth largest site in its upstream clickstream, and last year Sandra wrote about the connections between the two websites. However, LinkedIn has a different user profile to your average social network. It over represents with two key Mosaic lifestyle groups: Group A – Symbols of Success (people with rewarding careers who live in sought after locations, affording luxuries and premium quality products) and Group E – Urban Intelligence (young, single and mostly well-educated, these people are cosmopolitan in tastes and liberal in attitudes).

Analysis: Business 2.0 vs. Valleywag

Authored by Scott Karp on June 15, 2007 - 10:28am.

Business 2.0 has had another trend defining staff departure, following the departure of blogger Om Malik last year to launch his own media company. Now, the news is that Business 2.0 editor Owen Thomas will be the new editor of Valleywag, the tech gossip blog run by gossip monger Nick Denton (picture). What I find interesting about this news is how it reflects the evolution of magazine media — particularly the staffing model.

Call To Fellow Bloggers: Provide Your Best 5 Tips for New College Grads

Authored by Rohit Bhargava on June 11, 2007 - 10:30am.

Who doesn't love a good graduation speech?  Usually they are full of great advice, wonderful hope and optimism, and more than one caution about expecting things to come too easily or focusing too much on money.  One day, perhaps I will be important and old enough to give one of those speeches and offer some sage advice from the stage.  In the meantime, I propose a question to my fellow bloggers: what tips or advice would you offer to the new college graduates that they probably didn't learn in school? 

Buzz Watch: Mike Volpi Confirmed as Joost's New CEO

Authored by Jay Baage on June 5, 2007 - 8:58am.
The rumors that DMW reported on May 31 that ex-Cisco crown prince Mike Volpi had been appointed CEO of Joost were confirmed by the company today. Volpi succeeds the company's founding CEO, Fredrik de Wahl, who remains at Joost as chief strategy officer. Volpi will assume full operational responsibility for the company effective immediately. So what conclusions can be drawn about Joost's strategy in the hot online video space from the appointment of a high-tech M&A expert that acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure at router-maker Cisco? Read my analysis from last week here. GigaOM also managed to get five questions with Volpi this morning that you can read here.

Is Xbox Live LinkedIn for Young Hollywood?

Authored by Jay Baage on May 13, 2007 - 12:49pm.
The young Hollywood media elite are networking by playing videogames online, via Xbox Live. At least according to a testimony in Friday's edition of Variety, written by Ben Fritz.
"I can be at home at 2 in the morning with writers and directors and producers and executives who all vaguely know each other in the business," notes producer-manager Aaron Kaplan in the piece. "All of a sudden, I get to know people the way they really are."

Career Moves: December 20, 2006

Authored by dmw on December 20, 2006 - 9:00am.
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LG Electronics today announced the appointment of John Herrington to president of the LG Electronics USA Digital Appliance Division. Since 2001, he has served as the division's vice president of sales.Effective Jan. 1, 2007, Herrington will succeed Soon Kwon, who will now be responsible for digital appliance sales and marketing in the Americas, Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Career Moves: December 19, 2006

Authored by dmw on December 19, 2006 - 8:32am.
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CBS Interactive
announced on Tuesday that the company has hired Michael Marquez has been named Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development. Marquez, who most recently served as Director of Corporate Development for Yahoo!, will now work with Smith to help set the division's overall strategy, as well as with Chief Development Officer Joseph Ianniello, to initiate investments and acquisitions. He will be based in San Francisco.
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