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curses
The Voodoo Curse of Julia Allison's Dog on Tech Companies
Theory: the closer internet persona(e) (non grata) Julia Allison gets to your internet startup, the more it's bound to falter. The breaking moment comes when her dog shits on your carpet. More »
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By Foster KamerComment by Julia Allison: Hard up for stories, eh, Foster? This post doesn't even make any sense. PS. Lilly is very much housetrained. Although I... 7 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
Breaking Up with Julia Allison Is a Good Way to Make Money
Pranky videogame designer Charles Forman has scored another $5 million for his startup, OMGpop. We're beginning to see a pattern here! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Aaron Altman: OMG, can JA date the USA???!!! 5 Responses | Other threads
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commentards
Charles Forman thinks you're fat
Let's keep this nerdfight short and sweet — no, make that bitter: New York-based blogger/consultant Allen Stern thinks New York-based videogame designer Charles Forman is jejune and uninteresting. Forman thinks Stern is fat. In a predictably deleted comment on Silicon Alley Insider, Forman rails at Stern for complaining about his frequent appearances at the New York Tech Meetup. Here's Forman's counterpoint: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Matthew_Maurice: Damn, I'm all for men owning several pairs of shoes, but having that many pairs of ugly ones is abusing... 3 Responses | Other threads
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details, details
Correct out-of-touch New York style rag's Internet gossip!
It's complicated. God, is it ever. The same October Details story that follows around New York's "Internet playboys" and their bicoastal hangers-on runs with this chart of who dated, funded, or hated in this overdocumented side of the Web scene. So sweet to know we're not the only ones keeping a scorecard, but one of its subjects, Caroline McCarthy, claims there's inaccuracies! Let's do Details and the kids recently fanning their fameballs from the coverage a favor and fix it up then. Ready? Let loose in the comments with your errata.
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Comment by Duncan: Arrington dated Julia Allison? really? since when did a casual fuck count as dating? 2 Responses | Other threads
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All The Sad Young Startup Men
Introducing New York's own Web 2.0 "playboys"
The golden boys of New York's start-up scene are just as flashbulb-driven as the women who dote on them, a new Details mag feature reveals. Mostly they followed Tumblr's enfant terrible, David Karp, and his heterosexual beard Charles Forman, who pimps "social gaming" at iminlikewithyou but is still better known as last season's Mr. Julia Allison. There's a guest appearance by Kevin Rose, which you can just tell is going to get messy. He's inserted towards the end as the wise old sage, warning these new guys away from male Internet fameballing: More »
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Comment by Motoko Kusanagi: These guys are to the Internet as Drakar Noir is to perfume. 4 Responses | Other threads
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iphone
So you've decided to be an iPhone developer — now what?
A year and some after the Facebook platform's launch, few of its widgetmakers have made any real money — unless you count the venture capital they've raised. Just a month after the iPhone 3G launch, Apple CEO Steve Jobs says that $30 million has already changed hands through the iTunes App Store. Even the guy behind the do-nothing "I Am Rich" application made a few thousand bucks. So you, wantrepreneur Web developer, you're thinking: Gee, I made, like, four-and-a-half Facebook Zombie widgets this past year. Maybe I should cook myself up an iPhone app. But hold on there, Steve Jobs Jr. Do you really know what you're getting yourself into? More » -
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Cashmore's Kazakhstani wedding pics
Mashable founder Pete Cashmore makes a living throwing parties. Tumblr founder David Karp seems to get by on going to them, if only to make people say, "Why who's that fellow dressed so much like, Chuck Bass, and how can I join any website he's created?" This must explain why the two make such good dancing partners. But won't Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman get jealous? Write your own caption for this post and we'll use the best one as its new title. Friday's winner is bloggerman with "And in the end the stock you take is equal to the mess you make." -
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Lectroid Julia Bigboote's pheromonic camouflage fails at the worst possible moment
Iminlikewithyou creator Charles Forman whispers something to NonSociety creator Julia Allison at the Ignite party in New York last night, where he publicly announced their breakup. Can you come up with a better caption? Do so in the comments. The best one will become this post's new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Marissa Mayer demonstrates Google's new 'invisible cupcake' technology, currently in beta" by hopelessdeskmonkey. (Photo by Nick McGlynn)
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By Jackson WestComment by DelilahReindeer: Sweetie I never liked your "O" face and tonight I'm making it official. Sean Sullivan - Video.org more » | Other threads
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nerdfight
Charles Forman vs. Julia Allison
They always made for an unlikely couple. Besides a Manhattan address, a burning desire for tech-world fame, ties to Digg founder Kevin Rose, and towering self-regard, Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman and former Star TV spokeswoman Julia Allison had practically nothing in common. And now they have broken up, with publicly delivered disses. Allison's mechanism: Twitter, where she wished for "a boyfriend who isn't a whiny bitch." Forman's forum: YouTube, where a tirade against "celebrichauns with founder fetishes" was uploaded. The anti-Allison rant: More » -
copyfight
Hasbro sues Scrabulous creators, who could have gotten away with it
Hasbro, maker of board game Scrabble, has filed suit in a New York court against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the brothers who created Scrabulous, a Facebook-app version of the game. Hasbro also filed a DMCA notice with Facebook, asking that the company remove the game from its website because it infringes on Hasbro's copyright. I'm not a lawyer, and neither is Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman — but he has managed to get away with his own bit of copying other people's games, turning Tetris into Blockles and Pictionary into Draw My Thing, for example. Forman tells us that the Agarwallas would be totally in the clear if they'd only copied Scrabble's rules in building Scrabulous. Game rules can't be copyrighted, argues Forman. But since the Scrabulous guys also copied the physical appearance of the Scrabble board — which can be copyrighted — Forman thinks they're screwed.
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Comment by Shadowlayer: Is not that Iminlikewithyou cant be sued, is just that nobody uses it, so nobody knows it and no company... more » | Other threads
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wantrepreneurs
Julia Allison: HTML tutor to the nonstars
It's been just a little over a year since Julia Allison touched down in Silicon Valley, strutting past the hand-stampers at an arts fundraiser and informing anyone who would listen that she was looking for a boyfriend to help her with her website. It hasn't exactly paid off. The so-soft-it-hurts launch of her new startup, Nonsociety.com, is a technical tour de farce. The rumored-to-death project wraps glamour shots of Allison and friends like comrade Meghan Asha Parikh, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's ex-girlfriend, around sideways-scrolling feeds ("lifestreams"!) of their Tumblr blogs. Meghan, a former hedge-fund analyst, shows off her tech creds here. She's the only one who seems to have a functioning "lifestream," even on launch day. Allison's and a handbag-designing ladyfriend's came up 404. We salvaged the launch video, in case the whole thing collapses: More » -
geek love
The Kevin Rose- Julia Allison-Charles Forman love (and money) triangle
Here's Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman's unenviable position: The pectacularly buff New York techie is dating former Star editor-at-large turned wantrepreneur Julia Allison, but she still holds a candle for Digg founder Kevin Rose, whom she briefly dated earlier this year. And, coincidentally, Rose just happens to be an Iminlikewithyou investor. Maybe that's not so bad for Forman. More »
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Comment by drdrew: @weezle3: Yeah, that's kind of not kevin's thing: [www.techcrunch.com] more » | Other threads
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caroline mccarthy
CNET Writer's Cozy Sourcing
CNET News.com writer Caroline McCarthy published a nice scoop today on how social networking site I'm In Like With You raised $1.5 million from venture funding firm Spark Capital. Silicon Alley Insider has been chasing the story for weeks! How did McCarthy pull the exclusive out from under their nose? Who's to say! But, um, it's probably worth noting that McCarthy is dating David Karp, founder of blog network Tumblr and an intimate, bed-cuddling, entire-body-carrying friend of I'm In Like With You founder Charles Forman. Karp's company also shares Spark Capital as a venture funding backer. So, basically, McCarthy had sources close to her boyfriend to draw on. (Pictured, the happy threesome of Forman, Karp and McCarthy, as photographed by Richard Blakeley.) Should McCarthy's CNET blog post have carried a disclaimer? She doesn't think so: More »
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By Ryan TateComment by blackberry-addict: testing testing is this thing on? more » | Other threads
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superficial
What would Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's love child look like?
One in a while a Web application comes along that's so damn useful, even we'd invest in it. Facebook? Nah. MakeMeBabies, the site that lets you create ruddy-cheeked mashups from any two photos? Its diapers will be filled with nothing but spun gold. Here's what the site came up with from photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and girlfriend Priscilla Chan. After the jump, we give a few other notable couples the same treatment. Please do add your own in the comments with our image-upload feature — best and worst fake babies will win an as-yet-undetermined prize of nominal value! More »
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By Jackson WestComment by ThatKid: @Julia Allison: I hereby nominate this for post of the week. more » | Other threads
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wantrepreneurs
Why are Jakob Lodwick and Charles Forman in Esquire?
We don't own a smoking jacket or get manicures, so were unaware that New York wantrepreneurs Charles Forman of Iminlikewithyou and fired Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick appear in the latest issue of Esquire until Forman pointed it out to us this morning. "Good to see you yesterday," Forman managed to say before asking: "Are you going to put my Esquire thing on Valleywag?" Fine. But only because it gives us a chance to examine what, exactly fellow wantrepreneur Julia Allison sees in him. Yes, the pair are dating. (Though we hear she sometimes forgets his name when introducing him at parties.) More »
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Comment by The_Age_of_Plastic: @lothario: Okay then the people who bring you Scrabulous or a variety of others. I have actually tried the games... more » | Other threads
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venture capital
Iminlikewithyou close to more funding
Web videogame maker Iminlikewithyou is close to earning revenues — about three months away — and closer to landing more funding, we hear. When Jason Calacanis was in town earlier this year, Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman told him he planned to make money by selling gamers avatar and in-game upgrades. Forman is already funded by Betaworks, a New York-based incubator which has also backed Tumblr. A likely investor: SoftBank Capital, which is "very active in NYC right now," according to a source familiar with the East Coast VC scene — but we're now told SoftBank looked at Iminlikewithyou, and passed.
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Comment by Figaro: @Alaska Miller: YC gives $10K to anyone with a site for 6% of it. more » | Other threads
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Comment by AntoniaCoronis: i don't care which one he's dating because he's going to break up with him...or...ahh...her and date me. ps:... more » | Other threads
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quotable
Reallynotinlikewithyou
"Charles Forman is the most arrogant person I've ever met. Other than myself." — Jason Calacanis, on the tight-T-shirted Iminlikewithyou founder.
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Comment by Fidel on the Roof: @The_Age_of_Plastic: I ask the same question. Let's not forget the three plain girls. Don't feed the trolls. more » | Other threads
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caption contest
Charles Forman desperately wants you to see him holding hands with David Karp
Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman is a shameless self-promoter. And it disgusts us. The photo below of Forman and Tumblr founder David Karp, however, does not. More » -
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Don't everybody apply at once, now
Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman needs a Ruby developer. If you already have a job, Forman writes on his blog, "You should quit." One small hitch? The job's in New York ... sorta. More »
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Comment by The_Age_of_Plastic: @Alleywag: There is nothing worse than a jilted fan Nicholas. Alas, the numbers speak for themselves:Jan 30Jan 24Jan 22 (x2)Jan 14Dec... more » | Other threads
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twitter
New York VCs know their bathrooms, bars
So you're after venture capital and you want to know as much as possible about your potential investors before making your pitch. You could try following them on Twitter. But you might learn more than you wanted to. More »
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Comment by ScalaWag: This guy puts ASS in ASS-ociate. What is his biggest accomplishment? "He has co-ordinated Facebook's first ever Developer's Meetup with Mark... more » | Other threads
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breakdowns
Rackspace competitors loving the fail
Silicon Valley understands competition, even schadenfreude. So you'll forgive Rackspace competitors if they're just a tad gleeful at the managed hosting firm's failures of late. "It was very interesting (and quite a pleasure) to read your blog about [Rackspace] Well done!" one such competitor writes in an email, here attached as image (click to expand). He goes on: "Would you mind forwarding this email (or making an introduction via email) to Charles Forman with Iminlikewithyou.com?" Well, we'll see do what we can do. Charles?
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Comment by ray_schaefer: How's python treating you now, punks? CORE indeed ... more » | Other threads
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charles forman
Iminlikewithyou founder downright adorable in 1995
He's Silicon Alley's favorite asshole now, but back in 1995, iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman was just your regular old high school "computer whiz." Below, find a clipping from a 1995 copy of the Daily Herald, suburban Chicago's "largest daily newspaper." More »
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Comment by urukhaifive: @Rick: Seems like not much. >.< I couldn't figure it out at least. more » | Other threads
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rackspace
Four reasons customers hate Rackspace
Managed Web hosting firm Rackspace took out Tumblr, the trendy blogging site, last night, 37signals on Friday, a bunch of U.K. sites in December, and most of the websites you care about last November. Tumblr announced plans to quit the service this morning and at least one other startup customer — Charles Forman of Iminlikewithyou — doesn't blame him. Here are Forman's four reasons why, in his words, "Rackspace f—-ing sucks." More »
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Comment by CulverDampt: I'm looking for a SOLID web solution and have been looking into Rackspace....and then I saw this. Can anyone... more » | Other threads
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recap
I go away for two weeks and this is what happens?
If you hadn't noticed, I got married and went on a honeymoon. Did you miss me? Apparently so. Gizmodo gets banned from CES. Golson asks Calacanis for a job. Our very special correspondent pickets against the new pay system. Where was Denton with the "too insidery" warnings? Oh that's right, blogging for Gawker. Here's what really happened during the first two weeks of 2008, according to a speed-read of my feeds. On my next honeymoon, I'm bringing a laptop. More »
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Comment by Lapp: Congrats on the wedding! Wish you a lifetime of happiness! Craig more » | Other threads
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blockles
Charles Forman needs testers for Tetris imitation
I received this email from a friend who was invited to try out New York-based jerky-jerky entrepreneur Charles Forman's new Tetris ripoff, Blockles. What to expect? Well, Forman writes, "like a a first person shooter + tic/tac/toe + eating babies." Sounds thrilling.Megan ... If you need filler stories while you eagerly await jumping the valleywag ship, (Note: Do I need filler stories? Yes. Yes, I do) here's an email I just got from Chuck Forman, founder of iminlikewithyou (the guy with the postcard sized business card).
Here's the missive from Forman. More »
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Comment by It Must Be Take a Worm for a Walk Week: "Do not post on TechCrunch, Valleywag, or any other sites run by homos." Wow, he's winning friends and influencing people now.. more » | Other threads
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iminlikewithyou
Startup founder inspired by VH1 reruns
Charles Forman, the Silicon Alley entrepreneur who has a reputation for being a jerk, is tarting up his auction and game-based dating site, Iminlikewithyou, with a loser-generated version of VH1's Pop-Up Video. While it may be a suitable distraction for Iminlikewithyou's juvenile audience, regrettably, the submissions — most of them currently provided by Forman — aren't nearly as clever as the original Pop-Up Video which hasn't aired in at least five years, and hasn't been worth watching for longer than that. But this has led us to a brilliant insight on Forman's grand strategy. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Tim Faulkner: @winner and @Mr-Fingers: I've written 2 posts mentioning Iminlikewithyou in a little over a month -- the first being more... more » | Other threads
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Comment by Jon47: I wonder how Tetris creator Alexey Pazhitnov feels. As I understand it he has never been properly rewarded. more » | Other threads
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iminlikewithyou
Iminlikewithyou's messy breakup
Some of you thought we gave Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman too much credit when wrote that the creator of the online dating site might not deserve his reputation. "False," one commenter wrote, "he's pure asshole." Later, a tipster clued us in . "The only way you're gonna get the real story of why Charles Forman is a big ass jerk is to talk with his now ex-cofounder, Dan Albritton." So OK, we did. More »
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Comment by slavin: You're looking at my photos. Those are from 18 months ago, and "reveal" Dan's final project from a class at... more » | Other threads
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charles forman
Iminlikewithyou founder not as big a jerk as you'd think
"I have a reputation for being an asshole," Iminlikewithyou founder Charles Forman told me at the Reddit party in Greenwich Village the other night. "I don't know why." Truth is, Forman does occasionally transcend his reputation. Witness, for example, this photo here where he wears a Mark Zuckerberg name tag. But, folks, after a quick look at the business card he was handing out Saturday night, you will at the very least be able to understand the roots of this misunderstanding. More »
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Comment by yef: My guess is he's optimizing for fucking models or something similarly banal. That explains moving to NY, the sugary site... more » | Other threads
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