#housekeeping Click here to read Valleywag: An Instruction Manual

Valleywag: An Instruction Manual

Dear Ryan:

As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. More »
05/15/09
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By Owen Thomas
#twitterati

The Very Worst of Twitterati

Day in, day out, as I've collected tweets from the media elite in our daily Twitterati, readers keep asking: Is this the best you can do? A fundamental misunderstanding: Twitter is best at its worst. More »
05/15/09
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By Owen Thomas
#servicey Click here to read How Valleywag Got MySpace to Drop Its Sony Ban

How Valleywag Got MySpace to Drop Its Sony Ban

Sony Pictures employees can now waste their time on MySpace again, thanks to Valleywag. (You're welcome.) Here's the tale, from inside Sony's Internet operations, of how our story got the ban lifted. More »
05/14/09
4,0364,036 views on this post, 1 new visitors
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By Owen Thomas
#twitterati

The Twitterati Refuse to Sell a Horse for an Aeron Chair

These tweets are made for venting. Joanna Pearlstein, Susan Orlean, Jim Louderback, and other media twits found plenty to complain about on Twitter: More »
05/14/09
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By Owen Thomas
#birthdaywishes Click here to read Happy Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! Welcome to the Rest of Your Life

Happy Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! Welcome to the Rest of Your Life

What do you get the social-networking mogul who has everything? Click to see Valleywag's gift to the 25-year-old blunderkind CEO of Facebook! More »
05/14/09
8,7008,700 views on this post, 33 new visitors
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By Owen Thomas
#breakdowns Click here to read Sony Moviemakers Banned from MySpace

Sony Moviemakers Banned from MySpace

A tipster tells us that when Sony employees in L.A. try to log onto MySpace, "it directs you to google.com." Bizarrely, Sony's IT staff is saying it's MySpace's fault. More »
05/14/09
2,8652,865 views on this post, 13 new visitors
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By Owen Thomas
#printisdead Click here to read Google Planning to Rob Bloggers to Pay <em>New York Times</em>

Google Planning to Rob Bloggers to Pay New York Times

Give the newspaper bosses this much: In their desperation to fix their dying businesses, they are going after logical targets. Google's rise has exactly nothing to do with their fall — but Google has money. More »
05/14/09
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By Owen Thomas
#shutuptwitter Click here to read Why #googlefail Is Really a #twitterfail

Why #googlefail Is Really a #twitterfail

An hour-long outage of some Google services this morning has turned into a full-fledged Twitter storm. What this really shows is a failure of Twitter to be meaningful and relevant to anything but Twitter. More »
05/14/09
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By Owen Thomas
#schadenfreude Click here to read Peter Thiel's Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He'd Like You to Think

Peter Thiel's Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He'd Like You to Think

It's one of many casually accepted, unchecked assumptions in Silicon Valley: Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal and Facebook investor, is a billionaire, right? Leaked documents from his hedge fund, Clarium Capital, show he's not. More »
05/14/09
9,0689,068 views on this post, 36 new visitors
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By Owen Thomas
#leaks Click here to read Parking-Lot Typo Roils Apple Campus

Parking-Lot Typo Roils Apple Campus

Did contractors pave imperfection into Apple's parking-lot paradise? A controversial photo showing a misspelled traffic warning sent one employee out on the asphalt to disprove yesterday's report of a chip in Steve Jobs's flawless facade. More »
05/13/09
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By Owen Thomas
#twitterati Click here to read The WSJ's Twitterati Break All the Rules

The WSJ's Twitterati Break All the Rules

Oh, the rebellious minions of Rupert Murdoch! The Wall Street Journal has issued precious new rules for how its reporters and editors must conduct themselves on social networks. They are, of course, being ignored. More »
05/13/09
4,9074,907 views on this post, 5 new visitors
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By Owen Thomas
#priorities Click here to read Twitter Is Down! Twitter Is Down! What Will CNN's Rick Sanchez Do?

Twitter Is Down! Twitter Is Down! What Will CNN's Rick Sanchez Do?

What does it take to move CNN newsman Rick Sanchez? Not, apparently, a plane crash which killed 50 people. More »
05/13/09
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By Owen Thomas
#sextrade Click here to read Craigslist Clarifies: It Wants to Be Paid to Get You Laid

Craigslist Clarifies: It Wants to Be Paid to Get You Laid

Here's the backwards result of the legal crusade against Craigslist: The site never used to make money from its "erotic services" ads. But the service tells Valleywag that it's now planning to profit from porn. More »
05/13/09
8,2628,262 views on this post, 51 new visitors
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By Owen Thomas
#shutuptwitter

Finally, Twitter Learns When to Shut Up

Click here to read Finally, Twitter Learns When to Shut Up
The Twittersphere is up in arms over a move the message-broadcasting service made to make its site a bit less noisy: You can no longer easily eavesdrop on conversations with strangers. Hurrah! More »
05/13/09
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By Owen Thomas
#sextrade Click here to read Craigslist Employees Will Be Paid to Read Sex Ads All Day

Craigslist Employees Will Be Paid to Read Sex Ads All Day

Under pressure from state officials after a Boston medical student reportedly killed a masseuse he met on Craigslist, the classifieds site is cancelling its racy "Erotic Services" section with a new one reviewed by employees. More »
05/13/09
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By Owen Thomas
#spyphoto

Why Apple Is Doomed Without Steve Jobs

What happens when Apple's famously perfectionist CEO takes a six-month medical leave? Everything at Apple goes to hell. Like the parking lots. Feel better soon, Steve! More »
05/12/09
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By Owen Thomas
#twitterati

The Twitterati Stay Up All Night Cursing Their Honda

Don't take an iPhone to a movie screening, don't Twitter when you should be making coffee, don't buy a 2002 Honda, and don't be Meghan McCain. This and more we learned from Twitter today! More »
05/12/09
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By Owen Thomas
#flirt140 Click here to read Meet Your Mate in 140 Characters or Less

Meet Your Mate in 140 Characters or Less

FuckedCompany creator Philip "Pud" Kaplan will soon be a married man. So why did he just unveil Flirt140, the world's most awesome online flirting site? More »
05/12/09
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By Owen Thomas
#copyfight Click here to read If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You

If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You

Writers are getting mad as hell about digital versions of their books getting pirated online. Ursula K. Le Guin and Harlan Ellison will sue you. But we like horror mogul Stephen King's approach: insults! More »
05/12/09
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By Owen Thomas
#nerdfight

New Yorkerers in Scandalous Twitter Brawl

Our dreams have come true! New Yorker contributor and Twitterati regular Susan Orlean is whaling away on whiny, blogorrheic ex-staff writer Dan Baum on Twitter. Grab some popcorn, follow @susanorlean and @danielsbaum, and enjoy! More »
05/12/09
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By Owen Thomas
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