AllThingsD.com was a US online publication that specialized in technology and

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news, analysis and coverage. It was founded in 2007 by

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and

Walt Mossberg Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American technology journalist and moderator. From 1991 through 2013, he was the principal technology columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal''. He also co-founded '' AllThingsD'', ''Recode'' a ...

, as an extension of the annual meetings ''D: All Things Digital Conference''. All Things Digital was a wholly owned subsidiary of

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, and was a member of ''

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''s Digital Network, which includes WSJ.com,

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, and

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. In September 2013, Swisher and Mossberg failed to renew their agreement with Dow Jones. On January 1, 2014, Swisher and Mossberg introduced their own site, ''

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'', based in San Francisco, California.

Site content

AllThingsD.com expanded upon the All Things Digital conference, which was launched in 2003 by Swisher and Mossberg. While the conference quickly became popular and prestigious among the business and technology communities, the number of attendees was limited to approximately 500 people. The web site was set up to "open the conversation to everyone." Although the site operates year-round, during each "D" Conference it offers comprehensive and direct coverage of all events and presentations AllThingsD.com focused on news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media, but considered itself a fusion of diverse media styles, different topics, formats and sources. Initially, the two main features of the site were Kara Swisher's BoomTown blog, and Walt Mossberg's technology product review columns from the Wall Street Journal. Since then, the site had expanded greatly in personnel and focus. Although most of the staff were based in San Francisco, many contributors, including Mossberg, worked primarily in other parts of the United States. All Things Digital utilized

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to permit readers to comment on news stories. In September 2022, Swisher stated that most of All Things Digital's content (including video interviews with

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and

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early in their careers) had become unavailable, despite an agreement with the WSJ and

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to preserve it after her and Mossberg's departure.

Featured writers

AllThingsD.com featured nine different writers at the time of closure, where each had their own section of the site, as well as a separate category for other featured writers, both within and outside of the publication: *

's BoomTown: Swisher's coverage of digital issues which originally appeared under the same title in the Wall Street Journal, before being published in AllThingsD.com. *

's reviews and personal technology column, also originally run in ''

''. *

Katherine Boehret Katherine "Katie" A. Boehret (born 1980) works in internal communications for the Devices team at Amazon, an e-commerce and cloud-computing firm. Biography A native of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Katie Boehret is a graduate of the University of Del ...

's Digital Solution: a review of consumer technology. *

John Paczkowski John Paczkowski (born August 10, 1969) is an American journalist and blogger who authored the technology blog ''Good Morning Silicon Valley'' for Knight Ridder and ''The San Jose Mercury News'' from 1999 to 2007. He's a graduate of Brown Universi ...

's Digital Daily: an often humorous look at the tech industry and its major personalities. * Peter Kafka's MediaMemo: media and technology coverage. * Liz Gannes' NetworkEffect: reporting with a focus on social networking and the intersection of entertainment and technology. *

Ina Fried Ina Fried (born December 17, 1974), formerly Ian Fried, is an American journalist for Axios. Prior to that, she was senior editor for All Things Digital, a senior staff writer for CNET Network's News.com, and worked for Re/code. She is a frequ ...

's Mobilized: coverage of wireless issues and devices. * Tricia Duryee's eMoney: reportage on earnings, transactions and financial statistics that move the technology industry. *

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's NewEnterprise: articles and entries concerning the online business world, covering both hardware and software. * Voices: a portion of AllThingsD.com which featured posts by the site's staff writers, pieces from other Dow Jones properties, and reporters and bloggers from all over the web.

Conferences

AllThingsD.com also hosted content concerning its D Conferences; besides the annual main event in late Spring, in December 2010 they hosted D: Dive Into Mobile,D: Dive Into Mobile Conference Coverage
/ref> the first brand extension of the conference in which representatives from leading mobile device and software producers were interviewed by members of AllThingsD.

In popular culture

The ''AllThingsD'' logo can be spotted during the

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opening credits of the

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series ''Silicon Valley'', before being taken down and replaced by the ''

'' logo as the intro animation progresses.

References

External links

All Things Digital
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