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We got a new CEO

  • Nov. 6th, 2006 at 3:27 PM
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Flock Names Consumer Technology and Media Veteran as CEO
Former Yahoo!, AOL, NBC executive takes the reigns of social Web browser Mountain View, CA
November 6, 2006 – Flock, the innovative social web browser based on Firefox, today announced the appointment of Shawn Hardin as President & Chief Executive Officer. Hardin is a consumer Internet technology and media veteran, with experience at Yahoo!, AOL Broadband and NBC. He will assume the role of CEO effective immediately, as Flock readies its release of its 1.0 browser.



Flock Names Consumer Technology and Media Veteran as CEO


So I don't know much about him. His IMDB page has only one entry. But I did discover that his father is Deep Throat from the X-Files (not the movie) and his sister is Jan from The (US) Office.

I'm sure there's more to him than that, but that's pretty cool.

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[info]fraunahgooyen wrote:
Nov. 6th, 2006 11:35 pm (UTC)
Ooh, X-Files Deep Throat!

Odd how his family members went into the entertainment business.

What happened to the old CEO?
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[info]loic wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2006 07:09 am (UTC)
He worked for NBC and all kinds of folks. He's listed as a 'producer' on something. I'm going to miss meeting him tomorrow since I'm working from home, but I can report back with more details.

As to the old one - he left. It wasn't working out or something. I can't find the press release with the official line on it. It's actually sucked not having a CEO for a few months since it has distracted other folks.
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[info]alibee wrote:
Jan. 8th, 2007 10:05 pm (UTC)
BTW, just so you know, he was a "producer" in the web portal sense of the word, not the movie/tv sense of the word. And, he didn't work for NBC proper, but NBCi, which was a conglomeration of Snap.com (which is how I ended up there), xoom.com, and a couple of other small companies (one called Firefly, for example).
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[info]loic wrote:
Jan. 9th, 2007 02:27 am (UTC)
They canceled firefly?!!??
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[info]alibee wrote:
Jan. 9th, 2007 05:13 pm (UTC)
:P It was an IE app that would make words that are otherwise normal appear as links with content in any page you were looking at :D
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[info]bneely wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2006 06:17 am (UTC)
the press release has grammatical problems
> "Flock, the innovative social web browser based on Firefox, today announced the appointment..."

A web browser hired a CEO?
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[info]aquaplanage wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2006 01:44 pm (UTC)
Re: the press release has grammatical problems
Hey it's Web 2.0. Everything's possible!

:-)
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[info]lithboy wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2006 08:00 pm (UTC)
congratulations
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Nov. 17th, 2006 03:50 am (UTC)
actually, Hardin has directed quite a few projects
>His IMDB page has only one entry.

Actually, his experience is more as a director than a producer, from pre-IMDb days (hence, the reason he's in the DGA). He was second-unit director on The Pagemaster, which starred Macaulay Culkin, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, and Whoopi Goldberg. He also directed an acclaimed 30-minute short, titled 120-Volt Miracles, which starred Marg Helgenberger, Anthony Edwards, Ned Beatty, etc., that won a bunch of film festival awards. (It has an excellent script, but he didn't write it -- it was written by a now-fabulously successful screenwriter who shall remain anonymous.) Hardin has also directed a bunch of documentary shorts about baseball cards, conspiracy theorists, etc. He hasn't done any film work in about ten years.

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(Anonymous) wrote:
Sep. 5th, 2007 03:29 am (UTC)
Re: actually, Hardin has directed quite a few projects
Thank you for the post Mr. Hardin (or Mrs. Hardin). How lame. Didn't he (you) declair personal bankruptcy a while back?
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[info]loic wrote:
Sep. 5th, 2007 06:46 am (UTC)
Re: actually, Hardin has directed quite a few projects
Hi there Mr Hardin Hater. Looks like Shawn did file for bankruptcy at one point (http://sec.edgar-online.com/2000/01/25/07/0000912057-00-002159/Section14.asp) looks like thats long in the past.
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[info]alibee wrote:
Jan. 8th, 2007 10:00 pm (UTC)
I *know* Shawn Hardin. I used to work with him at NBCi.

I'm amused!
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Jul. 12th, 2007 07:49 pm (UTC)
One more masterpiece!
I had a chance to see live the cast of Harry Potter in Hollywood! Great guys! Good luck to then! Will go watch a movie!

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