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    Accidental Billionaire: It should be a crime for Zuckerberg to pose a professional. Zuckerberg is the luckiest kid in the Valley. He has had unheard of opportunity fall righ... more »
    MissNormaDesmond: Shit. I'm mad at myself for not getting a screen shot of this, but after I'd gone in on Saturday and set everything to "Friends" again and deselected... more »
    cassandra: Facebook will never listen without proof. Gawker should pioneer a "Deactivate your Facebook Account Day." Deactivation is temporary and changes none ... more »
    If_I_Had_a_Poodle: There's lies and there's telling the truth. They lied to users, deliberately, hugely, and with malice and forethought. The market won't like that. ... more »
    Freddie DeBoer: I just wanted to say that I agree with all of this, but that Twitter's $1 billion valuation is pure bullshit. more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Zuckerburglar is smart. ... and sponge-worthy! But numbers please. How much does facebook generate? What are their earnings before interest, lapse... more »
    allyzay: Users are being forced to update their privacy settings, with most default choices set to "Everyone" in the world or "friends of friends." Why are yo... more »
    Cannot Find Server: I know it's your beat, Ryan, but so what? With all the fuss you've made of this, I expected to check my privacy settings to find the whole lid ripped... more »
    Magister: People still Facebook? That's so '08... more »
    Swifter: Just deactivate your account. It's really easy. Problem solved. more »
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    SpyMagician: Ryan, you realize those are either fake or curated by PR agencies, agents, assistants or other flacks? more »
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  • #fashion

    Tech Hotshot's Shame: Bad Hair

    He might be fresh off a $1.4 million venture funding round and a leading player in the white-hot market for iPhone Apps. But a men's lifestyle publication has just revealed the shocking skeleton in Dennis Crowley's closet: "Curtains." More »
  • #foursquare

    Code Theft Allegations Can't Stop iPhone Bubble

    Foursquare has raised its first venture capital investment, and it couldn't have been easy: There are persistent rumors the social networking company stole its code from Google. Plus, it wanted to invest the money in a domain name. Ooof. More »
  • #twitterati

    The Twitterati Get a Free Lunch from the MSM

    Twitter is the ideal medium to express your own idiocy. Dan Abrams denounces the mainstream media which gave birth to his career, a Google-enriched entrepreneur eats its free lunch, and Alan Meckler discovers Twitter: More »
  • #hype

    Even Foursquare's Hype is Recycled from Dodgeball

    After Google bought Dodgeball from him and shut it down, New York entrepreneur Dennis Crowley knocked off his own idea to create Foursquare, a new friend-finding app. The coverage likewise feels familiar. More »
  • #journalismism

    Foursquare Founder Tells Two Tales About Filched Dodgeball Code

    Too busy partying in Austin, Dennis Crowley never replied to our questions about whether Foursquare was built on code owned by Google. He's denied it to other press, but we hear he's telling buddies otherwise. More »
  • #videuhoh

    New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW

    In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More »
  • #rants

    South By Southwest Is a Pointless Party

    Why does the tech world get a throwdown in Austin when the banks have had to cancel their bashes? The news out of South By Southwest shows that Web hipsters are every bit as bankrupt. More »
  • #scandal

    Is the New Foursquare Too Much Like the Old Dodgeball for Google?

    Even though Google killed Dodgeball, Dennis Crowley reassured the socially inept that they'd still be able to find their friends at bars with his newly launched Foursquare. One problem: it may not be his. More »
  • #startups

    Dodgeball, Overhyped and Underused, Deserved to Die

    Google has axed six services, from Google Video uploads to a shopping-catalog search. But none has sparked more outrage than the closure of Dodgeball.com. Dennis Crowley, the friend-locating service's twentysomething founder, is miffed. More »
  • #acquisitions

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  • #captioncontest

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    Don't let Google get you, acquired founder says

  • #followup

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  • #dodgeball

    Aaaaand it's dead.

  • #google

    Dodgeball founder quits Google; will Google kill the service?

  • #imfeelinghungry

    Google's cafe selections

  • #nyc

    Remainders: It doesn't help that the ads sell something called "iLoad"

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