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more about #valleywag more comments → raincoaster: Dylan, not if your servers go down again. more » SpyMagician: Folks, this all makes me really miss Florent, Shopsins and other old school places that had quirky owners who still cared for their patrons and their... more » twig: The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental ... more » CODiva: Clearly there are more effective ways to communicate with your staff, but few could be more entertaining than this --- except if you happen to work fo... more » CumaeanSibyl: I was always disappointed when my grandmother gave me Smuckers stock for birthdays and Christmas, but now I come to find out it's recession-proof and ... more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: It is peanut butter jelly time. If only we had an ear-wormy little jingle to celebrate this fact.... more » Brad Brown: As Gawker's token, heterosexual, Southern Baptist hillbilly, I have to say, "God damn, I love me some peanut butter. It's like manna from Cleveland." more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The 40 year de-industrialization of this country is almost complete more » lobstr: All it takes is to send this guy's email address to a Scientology org saying he's interested in some orientation materials, and he'll be deluged with ... more » Drunken Economist: Seeing as the bulk of Windows IT and development is outsourced and offshored, how is this a bad idea? Corps and end users really don't care where the... more » scroll_lock: I had no idea this existed. Now I'm newly obsessed. more » daveyjonesisdead: apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies... more » The Real JR: Paradou did get my email. The dude sends out emails all the times. Sometimes 2 or 3 times with corrections and such. more » OMG! Ponies!: Wow. Paradou has a listing on Citysearch. [newyork.citysearch.com] I bet Vadim depends a lot on the reviews. And here is the listing on Yelp! [ww... more » DTurkin: Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collab... more » -
#layoffs
Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
Current Media said it would shed 80 people, confirming earlier reports, and will make its unconventional format more boringly traditional. This might sound bad. But the San Francisco cable network assures us it is evidence of amazing success! More » -
#holidaze
Adobe Joins Pre-Holiday Layoff Wave
Adobe will lay off 680 people, or nearly 10 percent of its workforce. The publishing software company joins Electronic Arts and AOL in making pre-Thanksgiving cutbacks. At least these workers won't be shocked during the holidays. Just broke. (Pic) -
#communism
Quit Laughing: The Hippie Industry Is Booming
Everyone seems to think it's funny that UC Santa Cruz has a job opening for an official "Grateful Dead Archivist." But it's just the latest example of hippies riding high during the recession, floating on a cloud of groovy breaks. More » -
#howthingswork
This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You
Dear redundant old-media bigwigs: Meet your eventual replacement, a 16-year-old with gigs as a professional journalist for TechCrunch, a marketing evangelist for Qik and as CEO of his own startup. Also, he's been officially endorsed by Twitter. More » -
#layoffs
Sluggish Microsoft to Fire Hundreds This Morning
Microsoft will begin its third 2009 layoff round as soon as this morning, TechFlash reports, because the software giant's growth has slowed. Conference rooms are already reserved. If you learn anything about the reboot, email us. (UPDATE: Social networking hit.) 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 » -
#onlineadvertising
How Google AdSense Could Make You Poorer
Not only does Google AdSense pay badly, it can wreck your unemployment benefits. The State of New York cut one woman's benefit checks and told her running the ads was "self employment." AdSense earned her $1.30 per day. [TechDirt] (Pic) -
#communism
Blog Startup Surrenders Profit Dreams, Becomes Literal Charity Case
It's not just America's sad newspapers that are considering converting to nonprofits: The blog Jewcy.com has transformed from potential profit gusher into the beneficiary of tax-deductible contributions. At least people are getting paid. More » -
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#perks
Google Honchos: Our Employees Should Be Grateful They're Not Starving in Gutter
Google used to say its lavish perks bolstered productivity and, if anything, would only grow more posh. But a recession changes things. Now the official line is more like, just be happy you're working, you ungrateful fucking pigs. More » -
#forecasts
Google Billionaires Say Happy Days Are Here Again
Good news, jobless poors: The recession is over, according to the billionaire nerds who run Google. Their computers told them so, and now the executives are in New York to spread the word and count their gold bars. More » -
#spinoffs
Why Delay AOL's Mass Layoffs?
Everyone knows Tim Armstrong is planning more layoffs at AOL once the company is spun off from Time Warner. So why let them hang over the company's return to the markets as an independently-traded stock? More » -
#therich
The Home Where Microsoft Got Reamed
Microsoft is notorious for sticking it to enemies and business partners alike, especially among the tech elite of Silicon Valley. How satisfying for them, then, to hear how a hometown boy took the company to the cleaners. More » -
#privateequity
Peter Thiel: Too Dignified For Hedge Funds
Peter Thiel is not a clown. The PayPal co-founder and Facebook investor sees right through bubbles and rampant, ongoing Wall Street fraud, or at least says he does. So why is he running a hedge fund, again? 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 » -
#venturecapital
Silicon Valley's Mass Delusion
The Brits at the BBC checked in on the Silicon Valley economy, and found this horrific scene: People quitting perfectly good jobs and investing perfectly good money under the delusion that boom times are here again. Ouch. More » -
#fameballs
Meet the Harvard Grad Seduced by Microcelebrity
On what twisted planet does a Harvard grad leave a law firm to work for Julia Allison? On this one, apparently. We once dared to hope microcelebrity was dead, felled by the economy and oversupply. Perhaps we were wrong. More » -
#bloggers
Who Is NYTPicker? Don't Ask the New York Times
Just over an hour ago, the New York Times "revealed" the identity of NYTPicker, the anonymous blogger who made good sport of critiquing its namesake newspaper. Now the paper has beat a hasty, somewhat embarrassing retreat. More » -
#layoffs
UPDATE: Salon Lays Off Six In Pursuit of Becoming a 'True Web Publication'
Salon has laid off eightsix editorial staffers—or 20% of its editorial staff—so that, in the words of CEO Richard Gingras, it can become "more of a true Web publication." Welcome to the internet, Salon! More » -
#googleplex
Google Cancels Prom
The annual "Google Dance," which drew thousands of search conference attendees to Google's Mountain View headquarters each summer, has been canceled this year, a victim of cost cutting. The outcry only confirms our early judgement of the event: hopelessly lame. More » -
#jobs
Arianna Huffington's Hypocrisy on 'Un-American' Outsourcing
Back in 2004, Arianna Huffington didn't have a well-funded, fast-growing internet publishing empire. So she could afford to call the hiring of foreign workers a "crime against America." You'll never guess what Huffington is doing today. More »
