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more about #valleywag more comments → raincoaster: If the guy in the picture wants a stalker, I can be contacted on my Messages page here. Just sayin'. #google more » JennaW: I had no idea JK Rowling's black ops team would act so quickly to avenge their queen. [io9.com] #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto more » resipsaloquacious: That sucks, Lev! I loved the Magicians and I was excited to read the sequel. I hope this does not delay the publishing too long. more » Airvault: I bet he makes that face a lot. #gavinnewsom more » BullfightsOnAcid: I imagine his Life Coach must spend at least an hour a day coaching him on his hair. "Repeat after me. Feel your follicles. Feel your fibers. You are... more » Conchie Birdie: I was beginning to forget we even had a mayor. #gavinnewsom more » TheSometimesWhy: Does the phrase "Appalachian Trail" take on a new meaning after this revelation? #gavinnewsom more » nirreskeya: If the BBQ was truly awesome he'd have remembered where it was. #google more » mattchew03: When is the novelty people associate with all of this stuff going to wear off? Because I want to be there, watching all of their "I just sharted and i... more » Magister: Countdown until it's subpoenaed. #google more » Steverino Begins: Very scary, but I predit it'll be the norm within the next decade. It's sort of Facebook photo tagging taken to its logical, evil conclusion. #google more » MsMuffinMcGuffin: That is beyond scary. #google more » ifstone: Someone "invented" PHP? I'd always assumed it had plopped out of the collective asses of a thousand webmonkeys. Seriously, if I'd invented PHP, I woul... more » lionel-mandrake: They're moving to LA, ultimately they'll be closing down all the SF production. #currenttv more » Unsolicited Advice: We're not losing money, these 80 people are just useless! #currenttv more » -
#thingsweactuallylike
MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
It's hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More » -
#games
The Secret Shame of Social Networking: How Silicon Valley Got Hooked on Scammers
Silicon Valley pundits like to talk about social media as a potential geyser of cash. What they leave out is that one of the only ways social networks like Facebook, MySpace have done that is joining league with online scammers. More » -
#socialnetworks
Pretty Boy MySpace CEO Has Dumb Surrender Plan
MySpace now says it is no longer competing with Facebook, the rival social network with far more users. No, now MySpace will focus on the niche of music and digital entertainment. And compete with Apple and Google. More » -
#moguls
MySpace Is For 'Stalking,' Says Owner of MySpace
Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a "personal antipathy to the Internet," biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage: More » -
#lovehate
Legal Briefs Are Courtney Love's Method of Choice for Defamation
The grunge princess has long terrorized the world and the English language with her ramblings on MySpace and Twitter. She's the first celeb sued saying something on Twitter, but now the fight is getting personal—and ugly! More » -
#acquisitions
How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was "made," its investor mused it could be a "billion-dollar winner," and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale. More » -
#businessmodels
Twitter's 'Cyber Ghetto'
Without a clear reason for being, Twitter is about to flail its way into a "cyber-ghetto" for the aimless, alongside second-tier social network MySpace. At least that's the argument of a provocative post from Cody Brown, NYU's new-media wunderkind. More » -
#businessmodels
Facebook Does Not Want to Get You Laid
Facebook has long been the wet blanket of social networks. Its latest bucket of cold water: No more searching for people by relationship status. Because then you might conceivably get laid, and we can't have that. More » -
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#thecinema
Why MySpace Is Happy to Be Insulted by Adam Sandler
Social networking is for lonely, psychotic shut-ins. Or at least that's the upshot of the jokes in the attached clip from Adam Sandler vehicle Funny People. And still MySpace apparently cooperated with the filmmakers; its co-founder and logo appear. More » -
#cubicleculture
How MySpace Humiliates Fired Workers
MySpace's CEO purportedly keeps his body pretty tight. But he should lay off the weight obsession at work. Owen Van Natta said MySpace was "bloated" when he laid off 400 workers; now they're reportedly called "fat" to their faces. More » -
#classwar
MySpace Exec Gets $500K to Sit at Home While 300 Laid Off
MySpace today confirmed the rumors it will lay off 300 international staff, on top of 400 U.S. layoffs last week. The social network also shoved aside purported co-founder Tom Anderson, who has a new gig: NOT going to the office. More » -
#breaking
MySpace Lays Off 400
Two months after taking over as CEO, Owen Van Natta is laying off 30 percent of MySpace employees. His outlook remains bleak; when was the last time you heard a CEO call his company "bloated" in a press release? More » -
#valleywag
New MySpace Regime Lowers Expectations
MySpace chief Own Van Natta is a consummate dealmaker; at Facebook he helped sweet talk Microsoft into a critical ad buy. MySpace is a trickier case: insiders at the social network are spreading word it faces "horrendous" user disengagement. More » -
#housekeeping
Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
Dear Ryan:
As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. More » -
#servicey
How Valleywag Got MySpace to Drop Its Sony Ban
Sony Pictures employees can now waste their time on MySpace again, thanks to Valleywag. (You're welcome.) Here's the tale, from inside Sony's Internet operations, of how our story got the ban lifted. More » -
#breakdowns
Sony Moviemakers Banned from MySpace
A tipster tells us that when Sony employees in L.A. try to log onto MySpace, "it directs you to google.com." Bizarrely, Sony's IT staff is saying it's MySpace's fault. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Finally, Twitter Learns When to Shut Up
The Twittersphere is up in arms over a move the message-broadcasting service made to make its site a bit less noisy: You can no longer easily eavesdrop on conversations with strangers. Hurrah!
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#crime
MySpace gossip about an affair allegedly ended in a Staten Island murder.
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#geeklove
Love in the Age of SMS
Things were simpler when the only medium for asking someone out was the telephone. Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have complicated romance, if not ruined it, the Washington Post reports. More »
