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Loic Le Meur goes spelunking for the mythical g-spot in Seesmic demo
$1795 a head is a lot to pay for a sex ed lesson, let alone a tech conference, so why not combine the two? That was apparently the idea behind "Liquid Conversations" at Supernova, which nearly ran off the rails when panelist Loic Le Meur demonstrated his startup Seesmic, which the ebullient founder describes as "video forTwitter for video." The video he chose featured an international group of users and a talking head with a velvet vagina puppet leading them on an intrepid search for the g-spot. Le Meur may have thought the full-motion lesson would shake up the room of predominantly male attendees. But putting female sexuality front-and-center, especially when the few women in attendance just wanted equal time on the mic, not necessarily equal time for their orgasms, was just awkward for everyone. And it didn't do much for the sex ed lesson, either, nevermind that in another context it would have been not only appropriate but sorely needed. More sexploration on Seesmic after the jump. More »
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Comment by Traci Nickell Munns: I know the G spot!I have felt what happens when it is greeted.Yes it is better to greet it after... more » | Other threads
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How can I insult this guy's architecture in 140 characters or less?
Briton Paul S. Downey catches Blaine Cook, former lead architect of Twitter, at Supernova. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Damn, forgot this job came with a side of Scoble." by actionhero11.(Photo by Phil Whitehouse) More »
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By Jackson WestComment by nigelpepper: I can haz ur job and mayk fings bettur! more » | Other threads
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party report
Supernova conference interrupted by burger disaster
Catering to the whims of the Web 2.0 crowd is tricky — but it usually doesn't bring in firetrucks. The Supernova conference, which wraps up tomorrow, served freshly made sliders, White Castle-style, at a party this evening. The fumes from this fare were enough to alarm San Francisco's fire department, which sent up a ladder crew to investigate. Photos from an eyewitness, after the jump: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by raincoaster: Who cares about burgers? If you'd told me there would be FIREMEN there I'd have crashed it! more » | Other threads
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Social Networks
Random startup creator makes more sense than most business plans
We would have warned UK-based Web developer Jeremy Keith that Supernova is full of Valley types spewing meaningless neologisms and pitching pointless startups, but we see that he's already quite well aware of copycat wantrepreneurs and the lunacy of some of their business models by creating a "Social Buzzword Generator" that spews logos, names and taglines that are no less convincing than Pheltup. -
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Damn, forgot this job came with a side of Scoble
Valleywag's very special correspondent Paul Boutin is back, but could a meeting with Robert Scoble at Supernova presage Scoble's return as our mascot as well? Nah. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "You're gonna need a warrant for that search, officer. Or a web browser." by ThatKid. -
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Kongregate's Jim Greer, on how to get a girl-crazy VC to commit
In this morning's otherwise sleepy session the "brave new world" of entrepreneurship at Supernova, Vipin Jain of Retrevo offered the analogy first — that for startups, attracting venture capital is like dating. "When you first start there’s some excitement. Then, the unknown!" Jim Greer, CEO of the epic timewasting Flash-game site Kongregate jumped in: More »
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Comment by random_play: Why is everything desirable like a woman? Why can't a startup be like a puppy dog? Then we could tell... more » | Other threads
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Esther Dyson: Online advertising will "turn good people into prostitutes"
Esther Dyson, one of the 28 women counted at today's Supernova conference, responding to Bob Iannucci of Nokia in a conversation on the challenges of making money off of emerging networks of users, urged businesses to "appeal to people's pride rather than their avarice" or else they risk "turning good people into prostitutes." When Iannucci replied that "a market is just a language," Dyson extended her metaphor to herself, and to Dopplr, a trip-sharing social network. "I give up my travel information for free on Dopplr," she explained. Dyson is an investor in Dopplr. Does that make her a pimp who gives out freebies? (Photo via esthr)
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Comment by TaddeoPolar bear: Esther Dyson is a well respected author and technology evangelist. She's been innovating within the internet since at least... more » | Other threads
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valleyspeak
Bucketize
The latest Internet-advertising buzzword sounds like something you'd do to the office restroom. But what does "bucketize" actually mean? True personalization takes too much effort, AOL and Yahoo executives told an audience at the Supernova conference today. Instead, the Internet giants lump users into "buckets," or broad psychographic groups, and target content and ads to them accordingly. This neologism, alas, is probably here to stay. "Profiling" users sounds too sinister, and "categorizing" them too prosaic. Grab a mop, marketing geeks.
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techcrunch
Conference payoffs not disappearing anytime soon
Techcrunch's Mike Arrington — who has never claimed to be a "golden fountain of objectivity" — recently partnered with Jason Calacanis to launch the Techcrunch20 demo conference. The idea is to break out of the paid-demo conference mold and give space to startups based purely on merit. However, there's no reason to throw the cash-baby out with the payola-bathwater for other events. More » -
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Pretend you went to Supernova
So you're missing the Supernova conference, and now everyone will know you're out of the loop. Not so! Modern technology allows you to pocket the $2500 admission and sit at home. Come back to work full of Supernova stories, and the boss will never know you didn't go. More » -
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How to fix conference wifi
Here at the Supernova tech innovation conference, speaker Craig Newmark (the Craig in Craigslist) was wandering around with a network administrator, testing the main room's wireless connection (so he could write this blog post). All day at Supernova, attendees have suffered the most common conference headache — a wifi network that almost works. This is what they should have done: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Jeff Clavier: Couple of comments: - The chocking point is really the Palace Hotel's network access which is way too limited for... more » | Other threads
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Questions that no one asked at Supernova
There's an ulterior motive to opening an official backchannel at a tech conference. It pulls all the dissenters into a virtual room, where they disseminate their snide remarks safely away from the real discussion. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Paul Montgomery: Again with the Godwinnage. Isn't there a statute of limitations on this stuff? You're linking to a five-year-old story about... more » | Other threads
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waggable
Waggable: The CIO has no parole
Overheard from Supernova conference attendee David Weinberger, snarking about a panelist: More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by regine: Or just an H1-B visa and conversion lag time. more » | Other threads
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Craig Newmark at Supernova: Liveblogging the Craigslist founder
Written while Craig Newmark spoke at Supernova 2006 ten minutes ago. Not published 'til now because our blog database is slow. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Craig Newmark: thanks! but Dan is NOT failed in any sense, and I'd like to hear from folks if I should disclose... more » | Other threads
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Jon Schwartz at Supernova: Liveblogging the ponytail
Sun Micrososystems interim-but-doesn't-know-it-yet CEO Jon Schwartz kicks off the Thursday talks at the Supernova 2006 conference. He opens with a little speech about Moore's Law as it applies to Sun's data center innovations (and clogging the conference wifi by streaming the World Cup). More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by tokemak: eBay absolutely serves up more searches than Google. Think about it. When you search for something on Google you find... more » | Other threads
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Waggable: Credibility is like virginity
Disappointingly, workshop attendees at the Supernova 2006 conference are too busy being productive to spread much gossip. There were, however, some classic overheard lines. More » -
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"Ponytail" Schwartz chops off thousands of jobs this week
The penny drops for thousands of Sun employees Thursday morning, according to ZDNet columnist Tom Foremski. CEO Jon Schwartz (pictured) will announce a round of layoffs, part of the 4000 to 5000 layoffs Sun promised in May. More » -
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How to survive Mash Pit, Supernova, Bloggercon, and BarCamp this week
Hoo boy, four San Francisco conferences in one week! Starting with today's MashPit, this week is a con junkie's dream, as long as you have a guide to getting through. More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by Ron Jeremy: Let's get a little briefer. Mashpit: for the unemployed, for "consultants" Supernova: for the executive, that has a nice-sized title and can... more » | Other threads
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Why you're not at Supernova
Good morning and welcome to Conference Week, Waggers! Yes, this week brings such cons as Supernova, Bloggercon, Mashpit, Dorkbot, and BarCamp. You need no excuse for missing most of these, but Supernova has real speakers and all, and missing it requires an excuse. A local journalist shares this guide to copping out. More »
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