AllThingsD: Really Live This Time

AllThingsD.com, the digital site from the Wall Street Journal and the fertile minds of D conference founders Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg is live, a little more than a week after the celebration … Kara is one of our speakers at EconSM and looked awfully relaxed Wednesday night for someone launching a site. Not a lot of time to explore until after the conference but it looks much as I expected back in December when we were first to report about the new site: a clean look, a spotlight on work by the two executive editors and lots of video to start. The key editorial addition so far: John Paczkowski, late of GMSV. He’s blogging and doing a daily digital video.

– In the first-day edit offerings: BoomTown, Kara’s column turned blog, features some unsolicited advice for Yahoo chief Terry Semel, including a suggestion that Yahoo soin off search, possibly merging it with MSFT search and backup on the notion that Yahoo should buy Facebook for $1 billion.

– Speaking of Yahoo, Kara also tackles the issue of whether or not Jeff Weiner will be audience head of Yahoo. Her sources say the move isn’t likely. I’ve been told — as has she — that Weiner didn’t want the job for a variety of reasons but that some people at the company would like him to change his mind.