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The New F.O.B.’s
In mid-October, about three weeks to go before election night, Barack Obama found himself in the classy old Metropolitan Club on 66th Street with a group of his top New York fund-raisers. He told them...
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Craig Newmark, Tech Genius, Is an Obama Man
Craig Newmark likes to call himself a "community organizer." In 1995, the stout, New Jersey-born, soft-spoken 55-year-old launched online classified listings site Craigslist, which has been slowly...
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Obama’s Internet Adventure: What’s This Transparent Government Gonna Look...
Talk about revenge of the nerds! If President-elect Barack Obama actually fulfills his promises to bring the White House into the Web world, the techiest among us may have the loudest voices of all...
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Newser’s Michael Wolff: Who’s Got a News Fee? ‘I’ll Give It To Them for Free’
Last night, on April 20, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and founder of Newser, was sitting on a chair—arms folded, legs crossed—on the third floor of the Time Warner Center while a downpour...
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Preview! The Most Powerful People in New York Real Estate: No. 15
15. Craig Newmark (6 last year) Founder of Craigslist As the old residential real estate order withers away (Coldwell Banker Hunt Kennedy just last month went the way of Alice Mason’s brokerage), the...
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The Future of Something: Nick Denton, Bonnie Fuller, and Others Hold Forth at...
All that inky meat “shaken loose” from magazine and newspaper layoffs might seem like tasty bait for blog companies, according to Gawker chief Nick Denton. But he doesn’t want ‘em. “It’s very, very...
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Craig Newmark Teams With White House All for Good
On June 22, Craig Newmark flashed Michelle Obama the “geek salute” on a playground in San Francisco. “I told her to pass it on to Obama,” Mr. Newmark told the Observer, calling in today from his...
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The Aggregator That Newspapers Like
At Daylife, a digital media services start-up, founder and chief executive Upendra Shardanand and his team of young engineers have a name for a new breed of journalists: RoboCop editors. These are the...
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Happy Hour With Craig Newmark
It was after work at an East Village bar, and everybody wanted to pitch to Craig Newmark. The founder of
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Introducing the Anti-McKinsey: Why Hire Career Consultants When You Can Ask...
Foursquare’s Naveen Selvadurai, Craiglist’s Craig Newmark, Dotcom doyenne Esther Dyson and Nassim “I see a Black swans” Taleb walked into
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Craigslist Goes Full on Troll, Sues PadMapper for Aggregating Its Listings
Remember the good old days, when Craigslist was a granola-crunchy, free-wheeling sort of place, filled with back alley studio sublets
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Last Night’s Girls Who Code Gala Proves Beyonce’s Thesis: Who Runs the World?...
There are precious few tech events for which Betabeat would agree to wear high heels. But if there was ever
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Rumor Roundup: Writing Slideshows About Hot Tech Ladies Sucks, But ‘It’s Hard...
40 Sexist Stereotypes It was not a great week for women in tech. Between the Adria Richards fracas and Complex deciding the
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HBO’s New Tactic for Promoting Game of Thrones? Courting Techies
As HBO drums up promotion of the upcoming season of Games of Thrones, the premium cable network is trying a
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Fears of the Web’s Dark Side—Strangely—Are Not Growing
Weirdly, fears haven't grown despite a year of dramatic breaches.
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