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more about #valleywag more comments → Freddie DeBoer: I just wanted to say that I agree with all of this, but that Twitter's $1 billion valuation is pure bullshit. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Zuckerburglar is smart. ... and sponge-worthy! But numbers please. How much does facebook generate? What are their earnings before interest, lapse... more » allyzay: Users are being forced to update their privacy settings, with most default choices set to "Everyone" in the world or "friends of friends." Why are yo... more » Cannot Find Server: I know it's your beat, Ryan, but so what? With all the fuss you've made of this, I expected to check my privacy settings to find the whole lid ripped... more » Magister: People still Facebook? That's so '08... more » Swifter: Just deactivate your account. It's really easy. Problem solved. more » TheFu: The Facebook story shows that anything you've ever place on the internet (not just the web) can come back when you least expect it. It can be a simple... more » Shadowlayer: Looks like something a 12yrl did with Sims3 more » SpyMagician: Ryan, you realize those are either fake or curated by PR agencies, agents, assistants or other flacks? more » applejuice: Is anybody else wondering if the real Tom hanks would become a member of McDonald's, Subway and Pizza Hut? more » momof3wildkids: Is there anyway to get rid of the fashiongoods.us posts? They are truly annoying! more » momo: I'm a "fan" of Pie a Day. It doesn't mean I eat a pie daily. more » TANUKIII: One far less frivolous consequence of Facebook's privacy change: The personal safety of political dissidents. From a Dec. 4th WSJ article, "Iranian C... more » shag_carpet_bomb: I have a friend who has a pro-bowl quarterback on her friend list, right along with her PTA mom's. It's really him! Her husband works with the team, b... more » MissNormaDesmond: Ryan, please say you're kidding, or I'll never be able to take anything you say about technology seriously again. 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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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 » -
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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?
