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more about #valleywag more comments → MincnglyWhrdL'mer: lol. more » MessiahsHandle: Oh no! He didn't "Mount Kilauea" or "Scale Diamond Head" did he? I seriously hope he's not stuck his penis in the pu pu platter cause aside for the od... more » MessiahsHandle: I suggest Doa. Can't we take Aol to Switzerland to put it out of its misery...legally? more » shostakobitch: but what does denton think about this? more » PandoraSpocks: Palin Newsom 2012. Their slogan: We're totlly clueless but look great on TV. more » Sir Thomas More: They might as well have gone all the way and changed it into Lol. more » naugahydeinplainsight: This is the one that scared me. Brought back memories of waiting so long for pages to load it felt like my head was about to explode. Thanks for brin... more » Motoko Kusanagi: That newscast seems appropriately shit for SF. more » son of spam: Aol. Rhymes with A-hole. more » AzureTexan: I'm diggin' the ideogram. Reading right to left, it's "Eddy hook 'em fish." more » lobstr: If the folks behind this are the same people who did that new Pepsi swirl campaign, I'd love to see the 40-page corporate-branded meta-existential shi... more » Motoko Kusanagi: Dead fish gets flushed down the toilet. Rock on! more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: A great holiday gift for friends, colleagues, clients, inmates ... more » TedSez: Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to distribute these messages to anyone who wanted to read them? And do it for free? Oh, right. more » iplaudius: What started as a democratic open forum has become like the professional knowledge industry, academia: largely controlled by obsessive white males. more » -
#fieldguide
The Insanely Rich Young Mobile Ad Broker You've Never Heard Of
No one knows what Facebook and Twitter are really worth, sexy though the startups may be. But AdMob, an obscure company in Silicon Valley's hinterlands, has a very clear, solid value: $750 million in stock from acquirer Google. Yay boring! More » -
#startups
The Retreat of King Twitter
With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation. More » -
#successstories
U Can Haz Cheezburgur, World Dominashun, LOLZ at Other Starupz KTHXBYE
The I Can Haz Cheezburger guy, Ben Huh, got an AdAge profile. They've got 21 full-time employees, 30 blogs, and 11.5M visitors a month. They were profitable in their first quarter "almost entirely via ad networks and Google AdSense." [AdAge] -
#publicitystunts
Facebook's Wacky Prank on Journalism
The social network can and will fuck with you, as TechCrunch found out, after Facebook targeted an elaborate hoax at just its reporters. More » -
#moguls
Julia Allison's Clone Army
Julia Allison wants to be a Web mogul. Foreman of a fameball factory. Oprah to a dozen young Dr. Phils. In short, she'd like to replicate herself. Ominously, for such grand ambitions, she's recruiting on Cragslist. More » -
#geeklove
'In Lieu of Gifts, Please Give Us Free Venture Capital'
Drue Kataoka and Svetlozar Kazanjiev have come up with a novel way to hit up their wedding guests for cash: explain the cash will be used to generate even larger sums of cash, via the internet. 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 » -
#twitter
Ashton Kutcher, Exploited Twitter Spokesmodel
Has any celebrity tied himself so closely to a technology product as Ashton Kutcher with Twitter? It's doubtful, and yet Kutcher hasn't received a dime for his defacto endorsement. That's not lost on the actor. More » -
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#communism
Meet San Francisco's 'Naked' Hippie Internet Startup
In Silicon Valley, the line between cult and company can be thin. Leave it to Steve Newcomb to toe that boundary, with a San Francisco "idea factory" that sounds as much like a religious order as a startup. More » -
#startups
Barry Diller Just Bought This Kid a TV Studio
At the ripe old age of 28, Ricky Van Veen is finally putting CollegeHumor.com behind him. He's leaving the site he co-founded and starting a production company called Notional. But the young man remains in Barry Diller's well-padded nest. More » -
#businessmodels
New Twitter Ad System Tested by New York Times Reporter
How will Twitter ramp its revenue from nothing to $21 million a month in less than two years, as its managers forecast? Maybe by simply monitoring what you tweet about, and then targeting ads at you. More » -
#startups
Sun Valley's Lusty Old Men Are Fickle
Allen & Company is doing its annual thing in Sun Valley, Idaho, in which old moguls shamelessly ogle the most supple young internet startups. This year, everyone's drooling over Twitter. Last year's trophy companies? Not looking so sexy. More » -
#startups
Twitter, Facebook Just Actively Ignoring Business Opportunities Now
Who can afford to be blasé about making money in this economy? A hot Web 2.0 startup, it turns out. More » -
#cubicleculture
Inside the Startup Office from Hell
Frank Addante, the Los Angeles tech entrepreneur, has helpfully consolidated pretty much every terrible office idea and Web 2.0 startup cliché into one place: This video tour of his online ad company, Rubicon Project. More » -
#conflictsofinterest
Silicon Alley's Bitter Awards Scramble
For a startup founder itching to cash out, the recession can be tough: The economy fades hopes for an acquisition or plum funding round. Perhaps this explains some of the testiness around this year's awards from Silicon Alley Insider. More » -
#apocalypse
The World According to Twitter
How distorted is Twitter's view of the world? That question is neatly answered by Topsy, a new search engine that's like Google, except sorted by the attention-deficit-disorder sufferers who live on Twitter. More » -
#startups
Clinging to Dying Web 2.0 Dreams
Being a startup is way more fun than being a business. Which is why we see Twitter and Facebook in seeming economic denial this morning. Who wants to confront financial reality, like Google? More » -
#deathofprint
The New York Times Battles a Googler for New Jersey
Why is the Gray Lady building websites for the obscure suburbs of South Orange, Maplewood, and Milburn? Perhaps because those are the exact same towns Google executive Tim Armstrong picked for Patch, his local-news startup. More » -
#journalismism
At Last, Google Funds a Bailout for Reporters
Journalism pundits have been begging Google to put its billions behind the project of saving journalism. At last, a Google executive has come through. Here's Tim Armstrong's secret plan to save the local news business. More »
