About

Jolie O’Dell (@jolieodell on Twitter) has eleven years of experience in technology journalism. She joined VentureBeat after a stint at Mashable, where she helped that site through a year of impressive growth, breaking news and filing a series of insightful stories on Facebook, Google, Twitter and FourSquare. Before that she was a reporter and community manager for ReadWriteWeb, covering breaking news about startups and helping create the site’s video channel.