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Shut Up, Twitter
New Twitter Show Sure to Annihilate Twitter Once and For All
Are you sick of Twitter yet? Probably! But if not, wait patiently because the spunky little messaging service is teaming with a group of Hollywood geniuses to bring you an "unscripted show" that would "harness Twitter to put players on the trail of celebrities in an interactive, competitive format." Yeah. More »
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Comment by Claire Buoyant: Watching this show on an iPhone would be pretty meta, wouldn't it? 2 Responses | Other threads
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Launching Tweets into the Atmosphere
For the Twitterati, everything's up in the air! MC Hammer sailed above the rain, Laura Rich and Kourosh Karimkhany tweeted about their startup launches, and Michael Gartenberg saw Google's cloudy future: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by OMG! Ponies!: Who is McHammer? Is he a fictional action hero or something? 1 Responses | Other threads
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party report
MySpace Music party a dud
When the highlight of the evening is Twitter CEO Ev Williams meeting faded hip-hop star MC Hammer, you know the night was a waste. Indie-music consultant Corey Denis reports that the event "had ten actual music industry people there, tops." MySpace didn't have much to celebrate, either: It has yet to appoint a figurehead CEO to its MySpace Music faux joint venture. The only thing confirmed about Courtney Holt, the MTV executive widely rumored to be taking the job, is his gender. (Photo by Brian Solis/Bub.blicio.us)
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By Owen ThomasComment by FaceMelter: Lionel Ritchie and DJ AM? I know AM used to fuck his daughter, but what kind of crazy combination is that?... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Facebooker Dave Morin turns 28, but fails to destroy Internet
When I got an unauthorized invite, via a tipster, to Dave Morin's birthday party Tuesday night, I knew I had to crash — if only to find out what he and his friends were thinking. Morin, you see, is a Facebook employee and a prime instigator of Camp Cyprus, the gang of Internet instigators whose shockingly fun video scandalized a shaken Silicon Valley. What's with these Web kids? First they go to Cyprus and destroy the entire economy by filming themselves cavorting at a rich friend's dad's vacation house on the Mediterranean. The horror! But then, what's worse, they return to the United States, unashamed, and continue spending money and enjoying themselves! All this economic activity cannot end well! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by JohnGreel: Can someone please tell me why I'm supposed to care about this guy? And why Owen Thomas' sole job is... 1 Responses | Other threads
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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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Founders Club, MC Hammer take over SNL studios
Digital media types here in New York are always looking for a reason to celebrate their own achievements. A couple of months ago, a few of them began calling themselves the Founders Club and decided to start holding mixers around town. Last night, NBC hosted the latest in the series on the set of Saturday Night Live. Who showed? Mostly wantrepreneurs looking for a VC teat to suckle, of course. But I also ran into Digg CEO Jay Adelson, pictured above; a definitely not-pictured angel Ron Conway, who dodged my camera; a Facebook "founder"; and MC Hammer. More » -
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Y Combinator's webcam can't touch MC Hammer
MC Hammer's rap career may have been over more than a decade ago, but to the startup kids at Y Combinator, he'll always be a superstar. First, he awkwardly pitched Weebly's MySpace profile editor SnapLayout to lifecaster Justine Ezarik, better known as iJustine of Justin.tv. Now, Hammer has made an iminlikewithyou profile. The washed-out rapper hopes to extend his attempts to revive his career beyond being a hanger-on of startups by fighting Vanilla Ice. Only problem — he needs someone with a videocamera, and he's trolling the iminlikewithyou community for volunteers. So what does that tell us about the state of Hammer's career? More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Whocares: Julia Allison also has an actual job of some sorts.. I'm still pondering how Justine manages to pay her bills.. more » | Other threads
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Letting loose at TechCrunch40
Microsoft executive Don Dodge captures a moment from the TechCrunch40 conference. Or, more specifically, after the conference, in the limo ferrying VIPs from the TechCrunch40 VIP dinner to the after party at Fluid. Pictured, from left, Mayfield Fund VC Raj Kapoor on the floor of the limo; Allen Morgan, also from Mayfield, throwing gang signs; DanceJam cofounder MC Hammer; and angel investor Ron Conway, looking bewildered.
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Comment by categorically: Damn, that is so sad. What a bunch of losers. Why people continue to give these bozos money is beyond... more » | Other threads
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M.C. Hammer Has A Posse
CONFONZ — Would you believe that M.C. Hammer is still alive? When not dancing his heart out at his Oakland church, Hammer spends his days using a Mac and jumping out of airplanes with nothing but his famous pants to save him. Further more, the man now has a startup. It's called DanceJam, and you're not cool enough to see it yet. Rumors on the IntarWeb state that the site will be a YouTube clone focused on videos of people dancing. But wait! There's a value add! If you upload your dance video, Hammer will watch it and rate your moves. Look for this site to be a goldmine for embarrassing blackmail footage when it launches later this year.
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By confonzComment by BertDawgkatt: MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is presenting an event on New Music Models on March 17th with a fantastic lineup of... more » | Other threads
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Why it's cooler to work at Yahoo than Google
Blah blah, massage therapist, blah blah, mango lassi machine. Yeah, yeah, Google's not really more fun to work at than Yahoo. Yahoo's way cooler: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by MySpace Cadet: All the perks in the world can't make Mountain View and Sunnyvale cool. While here at the MySpace offices... more » | Other threads
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Who's Hammer's DJ?
Hammer has a blog, remember? And sure, Hammer writes his own posts on Look Look Look, but the Valley-hopping hip-hopper doesn't have time to fiddle with his links and embedded files. More » -
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Remainders: Oh hell, she can probably recite poetry in German
¬ Having blogged that Facebook should take the $750 mil and run, dot-com expert John Battelle backtracks when the Harvard Crimson calls. The key to looking prescient: always have two contradictory opinions to point back to. [Harvard Crimson] More » -
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Hammer's got a startup
Liquid Generation's James Kleckner has a scoop on MC Hammer's dot-com — a bigger deal than his blog. The humor site founder says that Hammer's insisting on using his old slogans on all the branding and ads — which, if he's fine with being Mr. Ironicpants, would kick ass. More » -
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Hammer Time at YouTube
Why did M.C. Hammer personally visit YouTube to talk about his music video? Because he's that awesome. More »
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