Weekend Update, 3.14.09–Special Roman “Ides of March” Edition
In Silicon Valley, it's hard to believe that not everyone follows each shiny new thing on the Web, tracks OS versions as intently as Battlestar Galactica's storyline, and remains jacked-in pretty much 24/7. But it's been known to happen.
For instance, BoomTown was in Rome earlier this week attending a conference on business, brand and innovation that only happens once every seven years-and one of the biggest takeaways? Hardly any Italians have heard of Twitter, and those who have don't really use it. Well, that, and conversations with Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, and several Italian business leaders. Mark Zuckerberg, though, is most definitely on the white-hot micro-blogging service. This week, he used his Twitter account, plus an appearance on "Oprah", as a platform to herald the launch of Facebook's own Twitter-esque homepage redesign. In other news, Time Warner (TWX) CEO Jeff Bewkes laid off AOL President and COO Ron Grant and Chairman and CEO Randy Falco. BoomTown interviewed Falco's replacement, Google (GOOG) ad sales exec Tim Armstrong, who'll start at AOL as Chairman and CEO on April 7.
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