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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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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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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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explainer
Global economic collapse actually Larry and Sergey's fault
Davos, baby! The partying at the World Economic Forum, the annual conference held in a Swiss resort town that has become synonymous with the event, was "out of control," organizer Klaus Schwab now admits. The Wall Street bosses and Beltway bandits were too busy having a ball to keep their eye on it, even as the economy lurched towards the abyss. This strikes me as revisionist history; the Times reported on the nervous mood at this year's Davos So who kept the event festive? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by madox: Google could have held a key-role in demonstrating what a company needs to do during a serious economic downturn; instead... more » | 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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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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gallery
Justin Kan, raw and undressed, in kerfuffle at TechCrunch afterparty
Can't get enough of this weekend's TechCrunch party? Valleywag's camera was on the scene as Justin.tv's Justin Kan shed his shirt and got into a heated altercation with OpenHulu creator and Ustream.tv employee Matt Schlicht over accusations of content poaching. More » -
wantrepreneurs
Julia Allison: HTML tutor to the nonstars
It's been just a little over a year since Julia Allison touched down in Silicon Valley, strutting past the hand-stampers at an arts fundraiser and informing anyone who would listen that she was looking for a boyfriend to help her with her website. It hasn't exactly paid off. The so-soft-it-hurts launch of her new startup, Nonsociety.com, is a technical tour de farce. The rumored-to-death project wraps glamour shots of Allison and friends like comrade Meghan Asha Parikh, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's ex-girlfriend, around sideways-scrolling feeds ("lifestreams"!) of their Tumblr blogs. Meghan, a former hedge-fund analyst, shows off her tech creds here. She's the only one who seems to have a functioning "lifestream," even on launch day. Allison's and a handbag-designing ladyfriend's came up 404. We salvaged the launch video, in case the whole thing collapses: More » -
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Are Michael Arrington and Meghan Asha off again, and will Calacanis pick up the rebound?
Meghan Asha has been tied to notoriously workaholic TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington over the last few months. But could she be tiring of a beau with no work-life balance? More »
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By Jackson WestComment by debbydeb: Smile M.A., what's the matter? Don't worry! No we can't see right thru u. You really look like you know... more » | Other threads
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party report
Digg meetup more like a concert in a land without women
The line to get into Digg's meetup and live filming of Diggnation last night in Brooklyn went around the block. Inside, the joint was packed with dudes drinking beer, waving around iPhones, and wearing T-shirts. There were maybe like 10 or 15 women. Just as rare: Microsoft Zune users. Despite Microsoft's sponsorship, when Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback tried to give away Zune T-shirts, the crowd only booed. Julia Allison's entourage, Kevin Rose, and more in our photo gallery. More »
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geeks gone wild
Details of Randi Zuckerberg's bachelorette party in Vegas
We hear that friends of Randi Zuckerberg, better known as nerd chanteuse Randi Jayne, are surprising the Facebook marketer with a bachelorette party in Las Vegas this weekend. The place: the Hard Rock Hotel, where they've secured two suites. (Zuckerberg is set to wed Brent Tworetzky, an associate at Shasta Ventures, in May.) The bacchanalia's expected to last all weekend, including a dinner at Tao and a night out at Rain. Who's going? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Owen Thomas: @sample032: And here I thought I was one of the girls. more » | Other threads
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wantrepreneurs
Allison: I'm not a gold-digger and if I were, I wouldn't go to San Francisco
Ever since Julia Allison and Meghan Asha visited the Valley last summer and said in front of various cameras that they intended to find themselves a geek boyfriend, people have described the pair as golddiggers. We know Asha isn't one — why marry for money when you come from it? — but yesterday, Allison told CNET's The 404 that she isn't staking out San Francisco riches either. "If I'm gold-digging, why would you go to San Francisco? There are hedge fund managers right here," Allison said. "And they're getting cash instead of equity in a company that isn't worth anything," b-school graduate Asha chimed in. After the jump, Allison digs a deeper hole: More »
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bad ideas
Page Six's full scoop on Julia Allison's "IT Girls" reality show
Valleywag commenters hate the idea, but the New York Post's Page Six loves IT Girls, the proposed reality TV show with New York umtrepreneurs Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Rambin.These three are more career-driven and have more to say than their L.A. counterparts, which should only lead to more drama. Even when they're not hitting Waverly Inn for dinner or flying cross-country for exclusive Silicon Alley [sic] events, this clique is never boring. They get Restylane injections for fun, own pocket-size dogs, and never go anywhere without blogging about it. What's not to love?
In the full-spread pic below, the Post speculates, and we can confirm, the show will air on Bravo, if the pilot's picked up. (One correction: Meghan Asha, née Parikh, is the heir to her father's Silicon Valley fortune, but it didn't come from Sun Microsystems.) Set your DVR now. More »
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it girls
Allison, Asha and Rambin dump the Web, embrace TV
It's unclear if wanterpreneurs Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Rambin will cancel their Silicon Valley tour entirely, but word is the trio has wised up to venture-capital realities. Valley angel Ron Conway, an early backer of Google and Ask.com, "has a list of 200 things he'd invest in and nowhere on there is content," Allison's friend David Karp, the founder of Tumblr, advised her. She got the same advice from Valleywag commenters. Undaunted, Allison, Asha and Rambin are already onto funding plan B. The New York Post reports the trio will star in a pilot for a reality TV show named IT Girls about creating their Web company. The difference between exposing every detail of their lives to Web viewers and TV audiences? The latter actually gets them paid.
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Comment by madmilker: "Holy mackerel!" Powerpuff Girls...oops! Powder Puff Girls on TV that gonna be like Kingfish's wife Sapphire, Madame Queen and Ruby... more » | Other threads
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perks
Allison, Asha and Rambin receive Pittsburgh private-jet pitch
A Mr. John French forwarded us a poorly punctuated invite. He seems to be extending it to the "Three Musketeers" — Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Rambin — for an all-expense paid trip to Pittsburgh and the Bahamas on the private jet of inveterate gambler Jeff Tott, who sits on Pittsburgh Financial's board of directors. Presumably they would want to explore "investment opportunities." Why not offer the getaway to Pittsburgh's own iJustine for her birthday? That seems easier. Update: And the answer is, um, no.
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By Jackson WestComment by raincoaster: Hello dears we are representing heirs of pittsburg crashes... more » | Other threads
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venture capital
Manhunting no more, Allison, Asha and Rambin plan Sand Hill Road tour
Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and their friend, bag designer Mary Rambin, are planning a mid-April trip to Silicon Valley. This time, they say they're after funding for their new startup — Oprah on the Web! — not geek boyfriends. The three met with some New York VCs last week and it went "well enough," Allison told me, that their next stop: Menlo Park. Ah yes: Broadway has become the warm-up act. -
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Julia Allison and Meghan Asha, live on the Internet
Below, watch as startup wantrepreneurs Julia Allison and Meghan Asha tell Pop17's Sarah Meyers about their plans to stop blogging, take over the tech world and renounce dating men who work in tech. Rumor has it they're planning a startup with the blonde you people are so crazy about, Mary Rambin. More »
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Comment by Fidel on the Roof: @shenanigans: they are not all that... overrated actually... more » | Other threads
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your privacy is an illusion
Arrington's ex likes to spy on her boyfriends
Why couldn't TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington and world class financier Meghan Asha make it work? Maybe it had something to do with Asha's habit of spying on her boyfriends. We don't know which one she's talking about here, but check out this post from her gadget blogMy ex-boyfriend used to hide all his cell phone activity from me like there were plans for the next nuke on it. His behavior was a precursor to his cheatin' ways. The whole situation could have been avoided if only I had the Cell Phone Spy Data Extractor. This handy little device allows you to tap into ALL files (even the deleted ones) on cell phone SIM cards.
A video demonstration of Asha's handy spy-tool, below. More »
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mysteries
Who is Meghan Asha?
A curiousity in our inbox: Meghan Asha, the Silicon Valley heiress who formerly dated TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, may not actually be Meghan Asha. A tipster says Asha's last name is actually Parikh, and her father is Mihir Parikh, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. One piece of evidence that suggests Asha is actually Parikh: A friend congratulated Asha on running the New York Marathon last fall. But no one by the name of Asha ran in the marathon. Instead, a Meghan Parikh did. Asha's — rather, Parikh's — close friend Julia Allison also changed her name. But one wonders if Parikh was doing more than just following a friend's fashion. Update: More evidence, courtesy of the enigma herself: More » -
100-word version
Meghan Asha's family friend on Michael Arrington — the 6-word version
Who's going to read 476 words about Meghan Asha, Michael Arrington's ex? Screw that. Here's my six-word version of the interminable email: "Arrington ... is such an unattractive offering."
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Comment by drewB: Whoever came up with the idea of a gossip column for the Web 2.0 set is a god. Open information! Hah! more » | Other threads
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geek love
Meghan Asha buys Whoisyourarrington.com domain
Michael Arrington's ex-girlfriend, Sun Microsystems heiress Meghan Asha, has purchased the domain Whoisyourarrington.com. Toward what purpose, we do not know. We just hope it doesn't hurt his feelings. -
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Meghan Asha's family friend: Arrington was "certainly a lapse in judgment"
Silicon Valley heiress Meghan Asha, the daughter of an original investor in Sun Microsystems, needs to stop fraternizing with the plebes, a longtime family friend warns. "Her choices in friendships, recent or otherwise, aren't serving her well," this friend writes, singling out ex-boyfriend Michael Arrington — "an unattractive offering" — and fellow geek addict Julia Allison:Meghan is a very different spirit than a "Julia Allison" type. I knew her as incredibly down to earth, friendly, smart, and thoughtful. She is someone that has a lot of potential.
Advice we should all take to heart, below. More »
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Comment by batchp: Julia and Mary (the blonde) are just bimbo and bimboer, but in my opinion, Meghan is actually a snake: a... more » | Other threads
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geek love
Arrington blames us for his latest breakup
Michael Arrington sat for an interview with Portfolio and they hit on all the important topics: Silicon Valley's "pirate" entrepreneurs, venture capital's relationship with the stock market, and of course, Arrington's love life. The nonboring bits: More »
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Comment by thebeerbitch: @iheartSV: Awwww... another geek stalker. I feel ya. more » | Other threads
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geek love
Asha already moving on, planning to get geeks gone wild in Miami
Michael Arrington and Meghan Asha aren't on-again, off-again anymore. Sources with intimate knowledge of the situation tell Valleywag that it's unambiguously over. We're confident a man with Arrington's prospects will have no problem moving on. Asha, it seems, already has. More »
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Comment by Benoit: @bbucy: What's funny is that there was no venom nor defensiveness in my comment. What made me laugh is how... more » | Other threads
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geek love
Michael Arrington is single
Four eager tipsters inform us that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is once again single. We hope this doesn't mean it's completely over between Arrington and his on-again, off-again fling, Meghan Asha. But if it does, we just hope Arrington has learned his lesson. Next Valentine's, Michael, send flowers. Then, late February next year, maybe you won't still be looking for "a relationship" and "dating," as your profile indicates.
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Comment by WagCurious: Scary technology lifecycle. Michael reports status to social network, Valleywag reports network status to limited viewership, which includes Michael. Michael... more » | Other threads
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bad ideas
We were kidding about the Julia Allison cover, Wired
We weren't actually serious about Julia Allison following up her Time Out New York cover with an appearance on the front of Wired. And yet, here's a photo from Julia Allison and Meghan Asha's brunch meeting with an unnamed Wired "marketing manager." Our hope is expired.
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Comment by Mike D.: @Dweezil: You're missing the point. HTML as a euphemism does not equal HTML as a solitary skill. Think... more » | Other threads
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geek love
Meghan Asha plays with toys not named Arrington
Meghan Asha — the SIlicon Valley heiress who keeps TechCrunch's Michael Arrington as her on-again, off-again boy toy — found a new dog to play with at yesterday's toy fair in New York. Improvements over Arrington: He can't talk, but he can wag his tail."Do you want a date?" Asha asks. "Do you want to come home with me? I would take really good care of you." Below, in another clip, Asha in a lurid threesome. More »
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poll
Happy birthday, Julia Allison, we're finding a new man for you
Geek-loving cover girl Julia Allison turns 27 soon and all she wants — other than a MacBook Air and whole long list of stuff — is a boy, "tied with a red bow, like a new car for graduation." Knowing Julia's taste for geeks like Kevin Rose and some guy who used to run some video site, we figured: Who better to help Julia land a new man than Valleywag readers? So help her out and vote in our latest poll. More » -
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Did Michael Arrington forget to call his girlfriend yesterday?
"Julia got me the most thoughtful gift for Valentine's Day," Meghan Asha writes on her blog, "Girlfriends are the best remedy for the V-day blues." Who disappointed Asha? She was, last we heard, seeing TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington. Michael, be a gentleman and at least send flowers.
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Comment by Anon16103: I really don't like all these hot girls spending my money or at least thinking they can. more » | Other threads
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the way we were
Meet Meghan Asha, hedge fund analyst
Admit it. Michael Arrington's flame du jour, Meghan Asha, is working her way into your cold, schadenfreude-loving hearts, people. First you found out she doesn't need Arrington's bankroll. Then, the private plane. Now this from the above clip: She used to work as a hedge fund analyst and is now starting a company on the side. Plus, she's adorkably awkward on TV.
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mine is bigger
Meghan Asha's party plane
Videoblogger Meghan Asha, who pals around with TechCrunch's Michael Arrington from time to time, comes from a wealthy Los Gatos family, we hear. The evidence? She flies around the country in a private plane. Here's what that party venue in the sky looks like. That's Asha between fellow geek-luster Julia Allison and comedian Demetri Martin. A tight squeeze. -
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Meghan Asha isn't into Michael Arrington's money
Michael Arrington's on-again, off-again flame Meghan Asha is not the golddigger some of you — tsk, tsk — unfairly presume her to be. Turns out she's loaded! Like private jet, loaded. "She's from the Bay Area," a tipster tells us,"and at least one of her parents is a big deal. Apparently [Asha's] family paid for the private jet that she and Julia Allison took from CES to the Crunchies." If this news is meant to warm people's hearts to Asha, it just might — until they reach the conclusion that she must actually be into him. (Photo by Robert Scoble)
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Comment by aparsons: Looks like we now know the real reason why Julia Allison is friends with Meghan Asha. It's Julia Allison... more » | Other threads
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nerdfight
TechCrunch editor's girlfriend needs your vote
Meghan Asha, the alleged squeeze of TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, is getting whupped by her BFF and notorious nobody Julia Allison by a ratio of more than 2 to 1 in Valleywag's latest runoff poll. Come on, Crunchers, you can't blame Nader for this one. Vote now!
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By Paul BoutinComment by Owen Thomas: @ordinarily_random: Ah, thanks for diagnosing that! I'll let the tech minions know. more » | Other threads
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poll
Meghan and Julia: BFFs tag-teaming Silicon Valley
In this video filmed last July, Julia Allison and BFF Meghan Asha announced their intentions to "find a tech guy boyfriend." In the six months since, one of two has been "connected" with names like Digg founder Kevin Rose and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. You may protest, people, but the pair has conquered you. Rather easily. More » -
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Arrington's girlfriend, reporting on Google's Davos party
"Last night was completely surreal," Michael Arrington's on-again, off-again flame Meghan Asha writes on her blog. " I had the privilege to attend the swankiest, hippest, most exclusive party in Davos. Here's my attempt at reliving the experience through video." More »
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geek love
Michael Arrington's on-again, off-again girlfriend is Julia Allison's BFF
Meet Michael Arrington's on-again, off-again flame: Meghan Asha. Here's the pair in together in Davos, Switzerland. Would you believe she's BFF with Star magazine editor-at-large and widely respected tech critic Julia Allison? We can't wait for MichaelandMeghan.com. After the jump, another shot of Asha and Arrington, as well as footage from Julia and Meghan's trip together to Vegas. More »
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Comment by gawkettesf: @Heidixeno: she's a farce. never was a "hedge fund analyst". and her daddy most certainly didn't charter jets for her.... more » | Other threads
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party report
We wear our sunglasses at night
No, I don't understand Paul Boutin's fixation with Bono, either. But he brought a fistful of sunglasses to Moose's on Friday, and before we knew it, everyone was putting them on. The bar's lighting is already moody, and let me tell you, when you put on a pair of Bulgari, it gets murkier than an open-standards discussion list. Things got even geekier when the boys from Uncov rolled in. And then, out of nowhere — well, out of Las Vegas, really — Julia Allison and Meghan Asha showed up to glam up the evening. Did we say "happy hour"? Our apologies. We practically closed the place. Next Friday: Natali Del Conte's going-away party. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Patricia2: there will be no laptops at this friday's party people. damn you. more » | Other threads
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valley foxes
Julia Allison still at large in Bay Area
Attention, Valley residents: Julia Allison, the Star editor-at-large, TV commentator, and notorious nobody from New York, is still in the area. Valleywag has learned — from Allison herself! — that she cancelled plans to fly back yesterday at the behest of imperious TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, who ordered her to "fucking stay." As startup entrepreneurs already know and Allison is learning, one disobeys Arrington at one's peril. So strap down your menfolk and lock away your sysadmins, people: Allison and companion Meghan Asha are still on the prowl. They're from the Big Apple, they're way underdressed for the weather, and they're not going to leave until they land a beau who can whip up a jazzy CSS file and upgrade them to Movable Type 4.0.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Carlos: @kraptek: Well at least you're not crazy. That broad could have any guy here and any other woman here's man,... more » | Other threads
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