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.
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:
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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 »
Motoko Kusanagi: Here's a pic of me and my bodyguards arriving at that very party! more »
Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Well I tried it. Saw plenty of tiny peens. Closed the window quickly when it looked like someone had hung himself and left the camera running. If i... more »
New pictures from the Facebook movie's set have none other than script-originating novelist Ben Mezrich uncertain how he feels. With clips from corresponding portions of the script, we decipher Mark Zuckerberg's sleepy-time befuddlement and Timberlake's alpha male "fuck you." More »
Randi Zuckerberg insists this was a "spontaneous" performance of George Gershwin's "Summertime" at a digital lifetsyle conference in Germany. We think the camera-loving Facebook fameball doth protest too much.
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Facebook's privacy pullback isn't just outrageous; it's a landmark turning point for the social network. Facebook has blundered before, but the latest changes are far more calculated. The company has, in short, turned evil. More »
Facebook's CEO has urged his users to carefully review the new "privacy" settings pushed on them by his social network. He should have taken his own advice: He's apparently locked down his photos since we rifled through them last night. More »
It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook's big push to give you "more control of your information" is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern. More »
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergissued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you. 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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Collegiate Mark Zuckerberg just wore an endless series of gray hoodies, according to new photos a student sent us from the set of The Social Network. Hey, the young cyborg was starting Facebook, not a fashion house.
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For proof that Silicon Valley is home to an especially clubby concentration of wealth, just take a short walk down a stretch of Palo Alto road. The one where Facebook's young paper billionaire lives next to a young YouTube millionaire.
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It appears Aaron Sorkin has confirmed many of the casting choices for his upcoming Facebook movie. If only Silicon Valley were this good looking. There's someone from Gossip Girl, Melanie Griffith's daughter — even a very built male model. More »
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has granted a rare interview so he can share such management expertise as: founders like himself are scientifically shown to be superior CEOs, according to a stat he heard once, somewhere, which "someone should probably look into."
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Mark Zuckerberg is said by Forbes to be worth $2 billion, up $500 million from last year and equal to the lifetime earnings of around 2,000 of the Facebook founder's fellow non-college-graduates. What a difference six months makes.
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What advertising depression? Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook is cash flow positive a year ahead of schedule, hitting 300 million users and growing ad sales. Great. Now the social network needs to achieve actual profit, and ditch its beloved funny numbers.