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Future-minded.(Business of Life)(Dick Costolo CEO FeedBurner Inc. )(Interview)(Brief article)

Crain's Chicago Business, June, 2007 by Copple, Brandon

Byline: Brandon Copple Three weeks ago Dick Costolo, 43, was CEO of Internet content distributor FeedBurner Inc. Today, he's group product manager in the Chicago office of Google Inc., which bought FeedBurner on June 1 for a reported $100 million. On his front burner: Like any good Web 2.0 exec, eschews hard-copy newspapers-except the Sunday New York Times.

"I'm more interested in world/national news than metro/local news.'' Otherwise, gets all his news from sites and blogs via FeedBurner's electronic feeds. Top of the list: dot-com blogs like TechCrunch. Also VC Confidential by early FeedBurner investor Matt McCall of Chicago's Portage Venture Partners. Gets most of his daily non-tech news from aggregator Memeorandum.com, which carries top stories culled...

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