Valleywag is Gawker's column from Silicon Valley. Edited by Ryan Tate, it carries technology and internet gossip — the news too scurrilous and juicy for the industry's trade rags.
succinctly: Every face is bored face. I haven't tried it as I don't have a webcam but I can imagine I'd be up there. Staring, just staring. more »
aupalaras: Boooring. Betcha they did drunk algorithms at the bar. This party looks like it was thrown by any math nerd who was ever thrown out of a cool party i... more »
Penscribe: All the Google parties look like someone gave The Situation a little money to host an event. Where's Snooki? more »
kithkin: DFW could have written a solid 1079 pages about this. more »
MrInBetween: The tag on any future item on this Chat Roulette thing (and let's hope there won't be many): THE SADNESS more »
intime: I wish this fad of having a stripper at your party would just go away. It must come from these thoughts: "Oh, now that I'm a big boy I can hire my ... more »
OctaveDoctor: Here is a screencap doing the rounds:
[i46.tinypic.com] more »
Cynner: Dad? Dad, is that you? Mom says come downstairs and get ready for dinner. more »
OMG! Ponies!: They could always forget to run a Google search to see if the name is already trademarked. more »
Meet Stefan "Monty" Roberts. You might know him better as Stefan de Rothschild, whose $2.5 million donation to Haiti relief was heralded by the Washington Post, who was quoted by Reuters and who, naturally, had a Huffington Postblog. More »
If you're a Twitter user, congratulations: You're also a Huffington Post contributor! For a few hours last night, it appears practically all of Twitter was republished on HuffPo. But now our tweets have disappeared from the site. What's going on? More »
The Huffington Post has currently given its front page over to a "MOVE YOUR MONEY" campaign. There is a Youtube video and an op-ed by Arianna and everything! What the heck is going on? More »
Katie Couricmade a list of the "most powerful" people in media for Forbes and they're all... Jews. Kidding, only six of 11 are Jews. The real power belongs to computer nerds. Couric mentioned zero old media people.
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The Huffington Post has brought back its old trick of posting embarrassingly high-resolution photos of celebrities, Portfolio.com notes, to much controversy. HuffPo defends its pics as "playful spin on our... fascination with celebrity images." OK, let's "play." With your founder.
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Combine two dashes of the Huffington Post's culty, medicine-fearing "Living" section and one dash of Fox News' craziest host, and you've got Love in the Time of Swine Flu. Not even Dr. Dean Ornish could stop these paranoid fellow-travelers. More »
Arianna Huffington is accustomed to a life of wealth. She rides her friends' yachts and jets. She even wanted to buy a plane for the Huffington Post, says an insider. So why's she talking about CEO "excess" on The View? More »
We always found it strange the Huffington Post was unprofitable, what with the Web juggernaut's traffic growth, editorial accomplishments and army of unpaid writers. It turns out HuffPo's investors thought that was weird too. Time for a new ad man.
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Salon has a great post by a doctor about medical quackery at the Huffington Post, where a columnist recently suggested colon cleansing could treat swine flu. This is the downside of HuffPo's open, unpaid model — and culty recruiter.
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The Huffington Post just hired another VIP's child, this one the son of White House senior adviser David Axelrod. Funny how a website famous for not paying bloggers finds room on the payroll for an undistinguished corps of rich kids. More »
Back in 2004, Arianna Huffington didn't have a well-funded, fast-growing internet publishing empire. So she could afford to call the hiring of foreign workers a "crime against America." You'll never guess what Huffington is doing today.
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Desperate for online advertising, newspapers have learned to aggressively optimize their content for Google. The result: more traffic. Junky traffic.
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It's a bold new future at the Huffington Post: investors have installed their own CEO; a CBS producer will launch a Gotham edition next month. Nevertheless, insiders are murmuring about belt-tightening, starting at the top.
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