AmHr: Speakers' Bios

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Caroline McCarthy has been a staff writer at CNET News.com since 2006, chronicling the rapidly evolving world of social media. She specializes in covering the likes of Facebook, MySpace, and Digg; in addition, she covers New York City's digital culture from eight-bit music festivals to video game tournaments.  Caroline, who holds a degree in the history of science from Princeton University, counts among her career highlights the time that she said on CNBC's "On the Money" that Facebook is the technology world's equivalent of Brangelina.