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more about #valleywag contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more » sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more » DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more » raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more » resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more » City_Dater: Nut Factory Trailer Park. Does anything further really need to be said here? more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: A vetting process to live in a trailer park? This has Fair Housing Act violation written all over it. Seems like they could be coming very close to "... more » BadUncle: Hopefully, part of the next Cannonball Run thoroughfare. more » allyzay: What the fuck are "artists" supposed to do if not smoke constantly? Actually do something artistic? What the hell? Everyone knows this. more » resipsaloquacious: "Merry Christmas! Shitter's full!" more » atlasfugged: For a membership fee of $295/month, we are offering the chance to live in a community of ironic cardboard boxes under the Manhattan Bridge overpass - ... more » harumph: Let's hope it's a true trailer park and it will attract a few tornadoes. more » miss_msry: Hope they have CO2 detectors in those urban yurts. more » Magister: A bunch of occupied campers parked in a warehouse with only a few feet between them... what could possibly go wrong? more » Jamie Peck: Hayden Cummings and his adorably idealistic ilk don't mean for this to be ironic at all. On the contrary, they have "a rooted commitment" to "mak[ing]... more » Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more » Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more » BowlingForDollars: This may sound lame, but I have Creative Commons on all of my material on Facebook. If they make it available in search, isn't that exploiting my "wor... more » CumaeanSibyl: A lot of times, when something that awful happens, it doesn't sink in all at once. You're numb, and your first instinct is to keep doing the things yo... more » Magister: Re: Penelope Trunk I'm not even bothering to fake the lie - The computer I'll be buying this Christmas will be for me, so that the kids can have the ... more » -
#cubicleculture
The Eccentric Office Mrs. Twitter Helped Build
Weird pictures continue to emerge from Twitter's new San Francisco HQ. But at least now we know where some of the outré decor is coming from: the CEO's wife, a designer, reportedly helped with the interior. More » -
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The Three Weirdest Things in Twitter's New Office
Twitter employees have been uploading pictures of their new digs in San Francisco. Looks like the microblogging startup is more concerned with catching up to its rapid growth than with coherent interior decoration. More » -
#cubicleculture
Google's New York Office Is a Glorious Catalog of Dot-Com Clichés
Techie office accoutrements like razor scooters and free food faced mass extinction at the end of the last dot-com boom nine years ago. Google brought them back in full force, judging from pictures of its New York office.
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#surrealestate
San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
There's a rumor circulating in the San Francisco press and real estate community: Tom Cruise just bought an $18 million mansion in town. An overgrown pied-à-terre wouldn't be too terrifying — except for that local Scientology expansion drive. More » -
#surrealestate
Monuments to Hubris: The New Tech HQs That Harbinger Doom
Historically, big tech companies start building new gigantic corporate campus instead right before they implode. Oh, look: Yahoo's drawing up plans for a 42-acre project and hadn't laying off thousands of workers. More » -
#markzuckerberg
The Insanely Rich Kid Next Door
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. More » -
#fortherecord
Twitter CEO No Longer Building a House
Running a microblogging service and raising a son are, perhaps, challenges enough for Ev Williams. The Twitter CEO tells us he's no longer building a house with his wife, as he told the New York Times in March. More » -
#realestate
Twitter CEO's Other New House
Twitter's CEO is building a new home with his elegant, designer wife. But it won't be ready until at least 2010. The couple's existing penthouse is, perhaps, unsuitable for them and their new baby. The solution? A temporary mini-mansion. More » -
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#photogallery
Inside the Nerd Mansions of San Francisco
San Francisco's renaissance men are supposed to be clever enough to make millions on internet startups and cultured enough to make home design decisions. In reality, they lack both time and taste, so they just completely outsource the latter . More » -
#realestate
Pimped-Out Venture Capitalist Riding High Again
Tom Perkins has been a barometer of plutocratic spending amid economic meltdown. That barometer is now signaling a comeback, if only for the real estate market, as Perkins scoops up a royal penthouse atop the San Francisco skyline. More » -
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Twitter Co-Founder Describes Horrors of House He's Trying to Sell
Biz Stone is trying to get $575,000 for his tidy "poet's cottage" in the Berkeley hills. The Twitter co-founder's real estate agent must be tearing her hair out: Stone's explained on television how much he regretted buying the place. More » -
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An Insult to Steve Jobs' Taste
Steve Jobs can finally build his dream home; the Woodside City Council approved plans to dismember the mansion he owns and detests. But the Apple CEO must give the pieces to someone who knows from good architecture. Oh, snap! More » -
#cubicleculture
Exposed: Mystery Googler With Movie-Star Apartment
Who is the rich Google employee who bought a Park Slope mansion from movie stars Jennifer Connelly and husband Paul Bettany? The New York Times wouldn't say. But it wasn't hard to figure out. More » -
#mysteriessolved
The New York Times Solves Sarah Jessica Parker's Park Slope Mystery, And The Answer Is "Google"
Speculation regarding Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick moving into ginormous Park Slope digs was wrong! Via some crack NYT investigative reporting, Brooklyn teasing, and reportage bragging, the occupants who ended up in it are just as interesting: Google Bazillionaires. More » -
#richuncles
Why a Huffington Post Co-Founder Buys Extravagant Real Estate For Pretty Young Ladies
Cityfile encountered a stubborn mystery this week: Why did Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer help People magazine reporter Joey Bartolomeo buy a $1 million Upper East Side apartment? Bartolomeo and Lerer were mum, but we've found a (mundane!) answer. More » -
#birthdaywishes
Happy Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! Welcome to the Rest of Your Life
What do you get the social-networking mogul who has everything? Click to see Valleywag's gift to the 25-year-old blunderkind CEO of Facebook! More » -
#realestate
Google's Larry Page Goes on Eco-Friendly Construction Rampage
To build the new, Google must tear down the old. As must its billionaire cofounder Larry Page, whose neighbors believe he's illegally tearing down houses in Palo Alto to make room for a gargantuan eco-mansion. More » -
#greatmomentsinpr
Facebook Gets the Fortune Cover Curse
A breathless Fortune story — "How Facebook Is Taking Over Our Lives" — reports that more people use Facebook than watched this year's Super Bowl. Facebook's board of directors must be thrilled, right? More » -
#realestateporn
The House Built on a Ponzi Scheme
Alleged $50 billion swindler Bernie Madoff has been confined to his house between the hours of 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Ah, but which house?
