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Facebook publicists try to get only positive coverage of the company, so it’s got to be strategic that this Sunday’s “60 Minutes” is Mark Zuckerberg’s first television interview since the film The Social Network came out.
The chief executive officer’s appearance on the CBS show is scheduled for this Sunday, December 5, at 7 p.m. We can only speculate when the actual interview took place.
CBS posted a preview video this afternoon that looks like it could be part of the introductory footage. The timing of the preview posting could account for today’s spike in clicks on an AllFacebook story concerning Facebook’s original publicist Brandee Barker.
We can only conjecture how much the outgoing publicist has orchestrated Zuckerberg’s responses to the “60 Minutes” interview by Lesley Stahl. Regardless, CBS’s preview footage looks like this Sunday’s Facebook segment will be fun.
Other than the 47 seconds of preview footage, we have some hints about what we’ll see on Sunday from an email by CBS spokesperson Kevin Tedesco. He said:
“Zuckerberg talks about the film, the direction he’s taking his company and becoming one of the most influential CEOs in America.”
Readers, are you going to watch “60 Minutes” this weekend? What do you expect to see, and why do you suppose Facebook’s publicity team chose the CBS show for Zuckerberg’s first television interview after the movie The Social Network came out?
Source: All Facebook
Accessory maker PDP has released a few themed controllers in anticipation of upcoming game releases. The two controllers featured are the Epic Mickey Paintbrush Chuk for the Wii ($20) and the Wii Collector’s Edition TRON Controller ($50). One looks like a paintbrush and the other is a black Wiimote with handsome blue lighting. Both only have aesthetic [...]
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Following a blog post and some digging by games blog Kotaku, the world learned today that Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune left developer/publisher Capcom. Must be "quit week" for the industry or something.
Inafune made a blog post announcing his departure last night. The gist of it is, he was unhappy in his role as Head of R&D Management Group, Consumer Games R&D Division and Contents Management Division. He said that a manager's role is to evaluate workers and speak "their dreams." The implication is that he doesn't feel like he can do that at Capcom, although no specifics are given in the blog post.
Capcom sent out the following statement to media outlets inquiring about Inafune's departure: "Mr. Inafune submitted his resignation on Tuesday October 19th. His resignation is effective from the end of November, but given outstanding vacation time he will leave the company at the end of October."
Going forward, Capcom still looks to release Mega Man Universe -- the 11th console Mega Man game in the franchise -- in 2011. Inafune's next move is less certain, but he said he's moving on to a new challenge. The last Mega Man game Inafune worked on directly in the role of Producer was Mega Man 10.
UPDATE (Dec. 1, 2010): Inafune has a new blog. No game announcements, yet, but blog Andriasang has a translation of the introductory post.
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"Sayonara" Inafune blog post [via Kotaku]
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