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crossovers
The Still Re-Birth of Julia Allison
Julia Allison no longer has her last proper job, at Time Out New York. Her reality show fizzled; a business partner ditched her. The archetypal protocelebrity was reduced to shilling for an amusement park. Time for a rebirth, via hair. More » -
flackery
Julia Allison's Shill-erific Sea World Adventure
Julia Allison was paid in cash to blog about her trip Sea World, the "lifecasting" celebrity wannabe has belatedly disclosed. So how have the first few days of the trip gone? Allison, who announced her trip with five exclamation marks, seems belatedly conflicted. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Who is the lady in the middle in black and white? She's like the queen of the photo. 5 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Julia Allison Shills for Sea World (Updated)
Julia Allison sounds so excited: The professional "lifecaster" is headed for "an adventure" at Sea World. As it happens, she's also showing other bloggers how not to make money in a recession.
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By Ryan TateComment by Julia Allison: As I just told Ryan, this is a fairly standard press junket, and IZEA is paying me for my time... 44 Responses | Other threads
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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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stalkers
Randi Zuckerberg's Excellent New York Adventure
Had an awesome week? Whatever. It was not as totally awesome as the week of Twittering Facebook chanteuse Randi Zuckerberg (of the Mark Zuckerberg Zuckerbergs). Except for the part where Julia Allison stalked her! More » -
twitterati
The Twitterati Use an iPhone App to Prove Something
Julia Allison thinks she has something to prove, Zillow CEO Rich Barton thinks he personally brought down AT&T, and MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall think she's a neutral vessel for news. Other delusions of the Twitterati: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Tammany_Fall: I haven't been around for a while, so I assume that you guys have already had a field day with... 1 Responses | Other threads
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crime
Did Julia Allison Break the Law in Search of Facebook Fame?
Former dating columnist Julia Allison, an Internet microcelebrity now famous for not being particularly famous, has finally gone too far in her attempt to acquire Facebook fans. She may even have broken the law.
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By Owen ThomasComment by resipsaloquacious: Ptr Nrth, jst ff cmr, nd h s bt t "nnnt" ths clssy lds n hs wn spcl wy. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Shut Up, Twitter
Oprah's on Twitter, Twitter's on Oprah, and Everyone's So Excited!
We think we've figure out Twitter's big news tomorrow: Oprah Winfrey is joining Twitter. Here's the evidence. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by lobstr: Prepare for gems along the lines of "GAYLE AND I ABOUT TO ENTER THE SPA, CUCUMBERS SLICES TO BE... 3 Responses | Other threads
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freakouts
In Which Gawker Gets on Mary Rambin's Very Last Nerve
Mary Rambin, colon cleanse enthusiast and until this week, one third of dating columnist Julia Allison's egoblogging startup, would like to shoot one of this site's writers "in the scrotum." More »
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Comment by Crustaceans Rarely Get Past Me: Can I get Richard's number please? So I can, you know, call him up and tell him how Gawker is... 8 Responses | Other threads
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internet famous
Julia Allison Now Mostly Famous for Dancing with a Quarterback
Dating columnist Julia Allison must be figuring that everything she has done is meaningless compared to someone paid to throw a ball around. Her Internet popularity has peaked after her dalliance with a football player. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Disco-Johnson: If he starts dating her, as a Bears fan, I will kill myself. 7 Responses | Other threads
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breakups
NonSociety Becomes Even Non-er
The separation of microcelebrity nontrepreneur Julia Allison, the dating columnist turned egoblogger, and vapid handbag designer Mary Rambin has finally happened even though everyone has known for a month. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Shamoononon, Vampire Grater - Now SWF: I proudly admit I have no idea who Julia Allison and Mary Rambin are. I'm even prouder to admit... 4 Responses | Other threads
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clips
Julia Allison Bores Everyone She Meets
Has anyone else noticed how bored people look when photographed with dating columnist Julia Allison? As this Ken Burns-style clip reveals, the relentless egoblogger's picture companions look desperate to be somewhere else. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Weegee's bored: During the glory days of Warhol, faux fameballs were intelligent enough to know that it was all a jolly fraud.... 8 Responses | Other threads
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breakups
Julia Allison Loses One of Her Nontrepreneurs
NonSociety, the attempt by unduly well-known dating columnist Julia Allison to blog for dollars, will soon be down to just two. Mary Rambin, her vapid handbag-designer gal pal, is quitting the startup.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Mount_Prion: That dog is terrified. I would say "terrierfied", but I'm not gonna go there. 8 Responses | Other threads
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party report
SXSW, the Conference for Julia Allison and Other People Lacking Real Jobs
What recession? More than 10,000 revelers are expected for this year's SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas this week. With no real work at hand, they're hitting the parties hard — especially the unofficial ones. More »
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By Scott KidderComment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: sxsw ... didn't that used to be a music convention? 3 Responses | Other threads
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anniversaries
The Web at 20: Not Quite Old Enough to Drink, Yet Drives Us to It
Dear important scientist Tim Berners-Lee: Thank you for inventing the World Wide Web 20 years ago. It's really great and stuff! But were you aware of the crimes committed in your name? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by tetragami: Oh Christ, someday I will be explaining to kids that I am older than the internet. 11 Responses | Other threads
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diggnation
After Jimmy Fallon, Is Kevin Rose's Buddy Act Over?
Did you hear? Digg founder Kevin Rose was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Wednesday. As was Rose's forgettable Diggnation cohost — what's his name? Ah, yes — Alex Albrecht, who we hear wants out. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Widget Economist: Rose is a symbolic mantra of the "Young, do-nothing, be a cryptic, stuck up asshole and you can become famous... 2 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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television
Julia Allison to Air on Most Obscure Channel Possible
Relentless egoblogger Julia Allison took a break from hurling ladyparts labels at bloggers to inform us of breaking news: Her videoblog, TMIweekly, has been picked up by NBC's New York Nonstop. How appropriate! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Terrafractal: I don't understand. Gawker blogs about this person relentlessly while repeatedly stating her irrelevance. Did she do something before I... 14 Responses | Other threads
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birthdays
Happy Birthday Julia, Here's the Free Publicity You Were Looking For
Micro-celebrity Julia Allison doesn't want Gawker to know about the super-super secret birthday parties she and Randi Zuckerberg (of the Facebook Zuckerbergs) are throwing in San Francisco tonight and New York tomorrow. So she invited us. More »
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Comment by MisterHippity: You know what Julia's done a real good job of keeping a secret? What day and time her reality show... 5 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Day the Twitterati Ate Their Own
Careful what you Twitter! Blogger Ben Leventhal savaged Julia Allison for a brainless tweet. George Stephanopoulos denied inhaling at a White House dinner. And Kurt Andersen just shouldn't have typed anything. Today's 140-character mistakes: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Sproing: "Meh," used appropriately, is not "I have missed the point." It is "I have gotten the point, and the point... 7 Responses | Other threads
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mistakes were made
Tumblr CEO Acts His Age on Censorship Dilemma
David Karp, the 22-year-old CEO of blogging startup Tumblr, has decided he doesn't want to be in the business of censorship after all. Now everyone's free to make fun of his friend Julia Allison. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by KarenUhOh: I'm new in town. Who's June Allyson? 7 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
Julia Allison: I'm 'Thrilled' Tumblr Muzzled My Hecklers
At least one blogger has condemned Tumblr for deleting her "reblogger" critics, writing "don't those cunts have the same freedom of blog rights that the rest of us?" But Julia Allison is "proud." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by guestofaguest: Isn't her use of the word Hobbesian a bit off? "English philosopher and political theorist best known for his book Leviathan... 12 Responses | Other threads
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censorship
Deblogging Julia
An anonymous critic of microcelebrity egoblogger Julia Allison has been silenced, all in the name of "freedom of expression." Welcome to the wacky world of Tumblr, New York's pinchy-cheeked hypercute blogging startup. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Annoying: There are some factual errors in this post: not all of the blogs deleted were devoted to NonSociety. Baugher was... 12 Responses | Other threads
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adsense
Google Sees Right Through Julia Allison
NonSociety, Julia Allison's experient in making macro bucks from microcelebrity, hasn't come up with a clever way of paying the bills. So she's running cheapo Google AdSense ads! Do they ever tell a story. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by friend_of_a_friend: Every time I see that pic all I can think is "Mutton dressed as lamb." 17 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
The Lost Parties of Davos
No Bono, no Angelina. Fancy banker parties cancelled. Davos is set to be a sober, star-lite affair. But Nouriel Roubini and Julia Allison will attend. Is there a better indicator of the Great Recession? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by mypupmaxigirl: Looks like Julia has big, snowy pine tree sticking up her ass.. 2 Responses | Other threads
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field guide
Shira Lazar, Kevin Rose's Latest Fling
Having famously "plowed through" San Francisco's eligible bachelorettes, Digg founder Kevin Rose went L.A. for his most recent paramour, Shira Lazar. Who is this Web-video wannabe with links to Dov Charney and Julia Allison? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by LilyBartleby: She's an upgrade from his previous paramour, Roseys Palm. 9 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Have Major Problems
What is it with media people? Twitter seems to drive them to reveal what their readers always suspected: They're all a bit dysfunctional, each in his or her own special way. Especially Julia Allison! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Dr.ClaytonForrester: Call me crazy, but I like seeing Julia Allison saying fuckkkkkk. fuck. It humanizes her. 13 Responses | Other threads
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stats
Julia Allison's 500,000 imaginary monthly readers
"My mom and Julia spent most of the time comparing their respective startups," Tumblr jockey Nick Noyes blogs about his dinner with New York's notorious nobody, Julia Allison. "Interesting statistic of the night: her site garners 500,000 visits per month." Does Nick mean Julia, or his mom? More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by TheDestructionator: Ah, there I go. She's 5'4" and likes being groped: [www.chickipedia.com] 1 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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TMI Weekly
NextNewNetworks now supplying Julia Allison with better lighting
OMG you guys gadgets and girls and hey it's the rich girl from Los Gatos and her iPhone and her friends and one is Julia Allison! Julia Allison you guys! Who is totally not the point of this story, because wow NextNewNetworks is really producing this? More »
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Comment by porterhouse125: Those dogs make a lot of noise. And the two pets bark a bunch as well. /1:36 is hilarious (dog... 1 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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julia allison
Hot girl photo on Wired cover a record-setter
Now in the pantheon of Wired's top-selling issues at the newsstand: Julia Allison, the face of famous nobodies who are clearly not nobodies as they are on the cover of Wired. "Allison outsold a host of genuine celebrities," goes Portfolio's blog, "including Sarah Silverman (Feb. 2008), Rupert Murdoch (July 2006), John Stewart (Sept. 2005) and Steven Spielberg, twice (June 2002 and June 2005)." If that vindicates the cover-friendly Allison, it also vindicates the cover lies of publishers — among whom it's hardly news that airbrushed pretty always wins.
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Comment by Matthew_Maurice: Oh, let's not kid ourselves. JA certainly isn't ugly, or even homely, but only a recently paroled felon would consider... 1 Responses | Other threads
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caption contest
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned...
Thank you, Julia Allison! The Internet's best self-promoter has uncovered evidence that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is still girlfriended by Andrea Weckerle, a social-media PR rep he turned to after the messy breakup of his affair with maple-leaf-waving right-wing punditrix Rachel Marsden. We'd heard they'd call things off, but they seem very much the couple here. Allison generously offered not to post the photo, to spare the couple the "recent ... um ... media attention they've endured." Instead, they jumped at the chance for more publicity. We're delighted to hear Wales is not wanting for female companionship, but Weckerle should watch her back around Allison. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by WilliamMarkFelt: He's got Jeffrey Dahmer eyes 10 Responses | Other threads
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julia allison
The Julia Allison School Of PR
When you cut through all of the (self-imposed) clutter surrounding Julia Allison—the oversharing, the wacko pictures, the grandiose self-fascination—what you get, fundamentally, is someone who really knows how to get publicity. Today PRWeek (my old employer) interviews Julia on her PR strategy, and you might be surprised to discover she is way more savvy than 90% of the "new media" specialists actually employed in the PR industry. The guiding principle that has taken her this far: "I think that saying yes to things is smarter than saying no to things." More »
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Comment by Swifter: Everybody here is pretty snarky, but I'll wager that very few of you are as successful as Julia Allison is... 16 Responses | Other threads
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meghan asha
Julia Allison pal's Cisco ad fails Wi-Fi test
Bay Area-raised biotech heiress Meghan Asha, who now lives in New York and egoblogs for fired Star editor-at-large Julia Allison's NonSociety, appears in an endorsement video for Cisco. The "Digital Cribs" lifestyle shoot has a brief product placement of a Cisco Linksys wireless router. Asha claims that she uses the Linksys for her home Wi-Fi network, which she calls "Geeking Out." Wait for the blooper which shows the whole setup's a fake, 23 seconds in: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Paul Boutin: Meghan has both a Les Paul guitar and a Stratocaster? She's my type. 4 Responses | Other threads
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how things work
How To Afford Your Dream Apartment: Lifestream!
Nonsociety—it's more than a website, it's a way to "Live Differently." Oh, how we laughed at dating columnist Julia Allison's new "lifestreaming" website that repackages her (and her friends') lives—and is thought to be a run-up to some sort of reality show/dating web show/something. (We called it a professional Tumblr!) But when the Terrible Trio started lifestreaming their search for a giant, airy live-work space, our laughter abruptly stopped. Nothing creates envy in a New Yorker like real estate envy. How does a website that doesn't generate any revenue afford it? We did the unthinkable and asked Julia. More »
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By SheilaComment by imwiththebrand: Hw d thy ffrd t, y sk? Wll th whl Sptzr thng tght m tht Jl shld b bl t pll... 39 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Barack Obama, meet your new Social Media Czar
Self-appointed "geeks" are nominating their blogosphere heroes to become America's CTO under presumptive President Barack Obama. The roster reads like the speaker list at any old emerging-technology conference: Larry Lessig. Tim O'Reilly. Dave Winer. Would any of these guys know a data governance strategy if it bit them on the face? Obviously, what their fans really want isn't a chief technology officer, it's someone to be Obama's Web 2.0 point man — a Social Media Czar. Guess who that should be? More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by mediawhoremeow: @Hyloka: With those buck teeth? I suppose if you think bugs bunny is cute. Truth is she's a fucking bitch... more » | Other threads
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alan citron
The gossip-proof gossipmonger
Last month, Alan Citron silently disappeared from TMZ.com, the gossip megasite he helped launch. He has suddenly reappeared at Buzznet, a music-blog startup that's dabbling in celebrity news. "It goes to my reputation of being quiet," he told me. I felt bad for Citron when, as the general manager of TMZ.com, he sat next to me on a panel on gossip at the South by Southwest conference in Austin this spring. Julia Allison, the notorious nobody with a nonstartup, stole the show, literally leaping from the audience onto the moderator's lap. More »
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we read twitter so you don't have to
MC Hammer proves he's the original fake-startup guy
Rapper turned startup advisor MC Hammer recently swanned through the San Francisco offices of Imeem, praising the music startup for its "beautiful women." Why are startups so prone to opening their doors to the man formerly known as Stanley Kirk Burrell? Attention from a pop star, however marginal, however faded, provides the insecure geeks who run these companies with priceless external validation. Their work must be important — why MC Hammer came to our offices and ogled our female coworkers! The sad thing is that Burrell has been working the startup circuit since the last bubble. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MelanieNowak: Hey, There is a fun talk at Stanford Grad School of Business on March 17th. MC Hammer and the manager of... more » | Other threads
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online advertising
Julia Allison thinks she's the future of online advertising
One of Julia Allison's posts to NonSociety yesterday began: "Today Meghan and I met with the most amazing real estate broker in Manhattan (and I’ve met a few) — Dain Lee from Corcoran." Allison's cofounder and fellow NonSociety blogger, Meghan Asha quoted the post on her blog and added, "Dain knows REAL ESTATE the way he knows fashion, have you ever seen a more pimp Broker? He SAVED us today, by showing us spaces that literally made me drool. NICE JOB DAIN!" Believe it or not — I didn't, at first — Allison and Asha tell us the dreadfully buoyant copy wasn't paid for by Lee, or Corcoran. But when NonSociety does start selling ads, they won't look much different. More »
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Comment by Shadowlayer: "We only want to plug products we genuinely believe in," I'm not buying anything she endorses. "he's just that broke and desperate... more » | Other threads
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