Do you find your job, diet, and existence inadequate? If not, make sure to read this latest dispatch from the New York Times trend squad: the city's startup jockeys are spending day after day pressing "calorie-packed" things into their fat fucking maws, chugging beer, and taking naps. They'll also probably be billionaires.
Further proof from Jakob Lodwick that you don't necessarily have to have a good idea
Bad News for Foursquare: Twitter Just Bought a Location Startup
Someone's gonna snatch up New York's finest local service, and it's not going to be Twitter: AllThingsD says the company just bought Spindle, a sort of poor man's Foursquare.
One of life's grand injustices is that it's very hard to come up with an idea that's both original and good. Even harder to make money from it! But that's not stopping anyone from trying to cash in with a half-baked version of someone else's startup. Uber for nose jobs. Pandora for plants. Silicon Valley has a serious imagination problem.
Newly filed court documents show Jennifer Allen won't recant: her attorneys say she's sticking with her story
Another Wired editor has been lured over to industry he once covered. Senior editor Michael Copeland will be heading up "content strategy" for Andreessen Horowitz, the VC firm he wrote about just two months ago for Wired. Heckuva cover letter, Copeland. Welcome to the Startup
30 Years Ago, the Next Silicon Valley Could Have Been in Vermont
There's Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Beach in Los Angeles, Silicon Alley in New York, Silicon Hills in Austin and lately tech boosters in New Orleans have been trying to get the name Silicon Bayou to stick. Everybody wants their region to be the next destination for science and…
Twitter closed a deal with Viacom in its big push for TV ad dollars. Since you can already find video highlights on Twitter, the sponsored clips amounts to "not much more than sticking an ad (for a product) on an ad (for a TV show)." The partnership will debut at the MTV Video Music Awards. Is no orgy of self-promotion…
PandoDaily Uses Journalist's Death to Discuss Some Software Bullshit
Pando, taken as a large green corpus, is generally tasteless. But is this a nadir? I think so: here's a post using the saddening death of famed journalist Michael Hastings to muse about a fucking startup.
