Rock 'n' Blogroll: Diller, Murdoch, Zucker Friend Each Other at Internet Week Soiree

On Thursday night, June 4, media moguls Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch looked down from their perch atop a rooftop deck at Rockefeller Center on the crowd of more than 175 of the industry's rising stars, both young and old, who had gathered for a star-studded Internet Week party, hosted by the entrepreneurial Founders Club.

Late Night's Jimmy Fallon arrived with producer wife Nancy Juvonen on his arm. Heroes hunk Milo Ventimiglia mugged for the camera. NBC head Jeff Zucker, the Wall Street Journal's deputy managing editor Alan Murray, and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes huddled on the same patio, with light rain pattering their heads.

Many of New York's brightest young tech entreprenuers where sipping Patron cocktails or playing with little boats bobbing in a shallow pool. Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk provided the vino for a wine tasting and was showing off pictures of his new baby girl, Misha. Avner Ronen, creator of Boxee, was schmoozing with NBCUniversal executives, hoping to open up a conversation about their tiff with Hulu.com.

Mahalo.com's Jason Calacanis was there, too.

Mr. Diller was co-hosting the party, along with Founders Club, um, founders Dina Kaplan, Blip.tv's chief operating officer and a former NBC-TV reporter, and Bain Capital Venture's Dan Allen and Jason Rapp, formerly head of mergers and acquisitions at Mr. Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp.

The party was in honor of Tim Armstrong, AOL's new chief executive, and Jon Miller, the former AOL executive who took over as digital head at News Corp. in late March.

The Observer caught up with Mr. Armstrong, who recognized us from our last encounter at the Silicon Alley 100 party, also hosted by the Founders Club, when he was still working as head ad sals guy for Google.

Did he hear about Mark Zuckerberg's recent interview, saying that his own coding experimentations with AOL were early inspirations for creating Facebook's application platform? "Oh, really? That would make sense," Mr. Armstrong said. "He's come to my office a few times, I've met him and obviously have a lot of respect for him."

Click on for more scenes from the party!