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Dave and Brittany
Valley's cutest couple ever creates cutest video ever
Holy frack. Is there any couple more adorable than Facebook platform director Dave Morin and his lady love, evangelicious Google Maps marketer Brittany Bohnet? Their employers may be rivals for developers' affections, but this lip-sync video of "All My Life," created on a road-trip through Cyprus, has no competition for the remaining drips of sentiment in my sappy little heart. Will you two crazy kids quit your dead-end jobs and start a company devoted to, I don't know, being the winsomest thing in the world? I'd invest in preferred shares of teary-cheeked admiration, at a valuation of 15 billion awwwws.
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By Owen ThomasComment by lastweeksdate: you think they'd be interested in a threesome? 2 Responses | Other threads
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pete cashmore
The hardest working suit vest in the blog business
Mashable founder Pete Cashmore will say goodbye to his American friends tonight in San Francisco. The faux-blogging CEO caps off his six-month visa stay with a party, booze, food, and — as always — startup pitches. The Scottish whirlwind came to the U.S. and stayed long enough to snag a documentary, as well as gals left, right, and sometimes both sides. What's the secret? Perhaps it's his dapper outfit. We chronicle Pete's magical suit vest: More »
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Comment by AudreyMaylord: Quite the douchebag, this wee lad...I didn't realize he was straight. C'mon, you sure it's not a cover for another... more » | Other threads
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the 250
Demi Moore and Robert Scoble's moment of mutual unrecognition
Just how isolated are tech pundits like Robert Scoble from the real world? In a telling moment at a "VIP" party for TechCrunch50, Michael Arrington's startup conference taking place this week in San Francisco, an attendee tried to explain Scoble's notoriety to fading film star Demi Moore. Moore was on hand to promote her hubby Ashton Kutcher's new Web show Blah Girls. The actress, like most of America, had never heard of the ruddy, flaxen-haired Fast Company videoblogger. More surprising was Scoble's confession that he hadn't recognized Moore, either. Which makes me think of a new motto for the 250, Valleywag's term for the Valley's self-appointed, self-obsessed inside crowd: "You don't know us, and we don't know you." (Photos by AP/Evan Agostini and Shannon Clark)
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By Jackson WestComment by categorically: Please, Robert wanked off to Demi when he was out of work in the 90s. He is so full... 1 Responses | Other threads
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geek love
When the 250 only date the 250
When we popularized "the 250" as a nickname for San Francisco's Internet cool-kids crowd, we didn't realize how literal the incest was. Take the flirtation between Flickr's engineering chief, Cal Henderson, and Ariel Waldman, the community manager of Pownce, an online file-sharing service. Pownce was cofounded by Leah Culver, Henderson's ex-girlfriend, who has also dated around the scene. Henderson and Waldman traveled to Hawaii together, and have made jokes — on Twitter and Flickr, of course — about Henderson wishing Waldman shared his last name and calling her his "fake wife." It's all so darling, veering on disturbing. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by michaellamb: maybe they'll all feel better when I say I've never heard of any of them, and certainly on one outside... 2 Responses | Other threads
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breakdowns
All the news that's fit to print, unless the website's down
The website of the New York Times is unresponsive beyond an archaic "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" error. We didn't even have to check the site — we could have gathered as much from the frantic IMs being sent by the same Internet poseurs who like to blog about how the mainstream media is irrelevant to their lives.
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By Owen ThomasComment by mrfomoco: Hmm...NYT victimized by a 'Denial of Objectivity' attack, no doubt. more » | Other threads
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the chart
The 250 shows supercharged viral growth, more than tripling to 806 in four months
Back in March, very special correspondent Paul Boutin revealed that the Olds were derisively referring to the insular San Francisco clique of Web hipsters — the sort of people who Twitter about how they wish FriendFeed had a better Plurk API — as "the 250." After learning that 806 people tuned in to watch Kevin Rose shave his head, live on the Internet, we are now revising that figure upwards by a factor of 3.224. With Rose's market-expanding efforts, we now have three times as many people to mock. Thanks, Kevin! -
nowpublic
Robert Scoble, other Valley bon vivants subject of latest ego-stroking linkbait
Vancouver-based NowPublic is ostensibly all about citizen journalism. But since Guy Kawasaki sold Truemors to it and signed up as an advisor, it's becoming better known for publishing flattering lists of "influencers," supposedly ranking them according to various social media metrics. The first "Most Public" list focused on New York, but a new list for the Valley and San Francisco is "coming soon." And by virtue of being included in the latest edition, we received an early copy as a press release. Who comes out on top? Ubiquitous attention slut Robert Scoble, naturally. Full list after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by comandante: pete cashmore?!! i read mashable daily and love the focus and commitment to social media technology, but often the... more » | Other threads
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the 250
Citizen journalists rush to fill Internet's shortage of A-lists
I blame Guy Kawasaki. Ten days after the relentless listmaker joined the advisory board of Vancouver-based citizen journalism hub NowPublic, the site published a link-baiting "The 50 most influential people in New York." We've had this piece in our inboxes since Friday morning, but we couldn't figure out how to get anyone in the Valley to care about a list topped by Noah Brier and Jeff Jarvis. More interesting is me-blogger Anil Dash's take on the genre: "First and foremost, organizations create these lists to promote their own authority." Exactly. We've been pitched to do a Valleywag 100 or Valleywag 40 or whatever by consultants who crank out marketing events for a living. But they balk when we ask for a deck of playing cards emblazoned with the faces of 52 People We Want Gone.
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By Paul BoutinComment by raincoaster: How about a post on "Hot Girls of Valleywag?" Me! Me! Pick me! more » | Other threads
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the 250
FriendFeed spawns yet another A-list no one reads
FriendFeed, a largely unused aggregation service for other Web 2.0 services most people don't use, has become the new hotspot for tech's roving band of self-styled A-listers. There's good reason: FriendFeed's user base is catching up fast on Twitter. But yesterday, blogger Yuval Atzmon posted an informal FriendFeed 250 that's already replaced the Twitter Top 100 as the place to be for self-promoters (and for people who like to argue methodologies.) The good news is there's still room for you. A mere 280 followers will put you on the list. But hurry. By August, FriendFeed will look exactly like every other Web 2.0 list ever made. One in three posts will be about a tech conference, and one in five will explain why because of FriendFeed, John Markoff at the New York Times is really scared for his job.
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By Paul BoutinComment by MikeTy: A few months back Facebook announced its "lifestream" as a way to import information from external sites. At that point,... more » | Other threads
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web apps
Plurk, yet another microblogging platform, hailed by The 250
Not happy with updating your friends publicly via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pownce and Jaiku (and feeding all those updates into FriendFeed)? Then, um, try Plurk, a startup which declares, "We've taken the time, the complexity, and the deep introspection required out of blogging." Also, too, the irony. [The Inquisitr]
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By Jackson WestComment by mager: Plurk is addicting. Watch it take over Twitter. Or, watch Twitter buy it and use its technology. more » | Other threads
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we read twitter so you don't have to
Geeks on Twitter act like rabbis debating arcane points of the Talmud
Former Yahoo Personals exec Susan Mernit recently returned from a conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. The trip inspired an analogy: She compares the insular community of hyperconnected techies to the shtetls formed by Jews of the European diaspora to protect their community from the ignorance and prejudice of illiterate gentiles. Except they speak Nerdic instead of Yiddish.
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By Jackson WestComment by Captaffy: @Rachel Marsden: I think you've got it figured out. more » | Other threads
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the 250
"I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again"
Jason Calacanis makes a list of ways to relieve stress with friends. Our favorite? "g) next time you go to a conference fly there with someone. Mike Arrington, Om Malik and I were all on the same flight to Le Web this past year. It's just great fun to travel together, share movies, and read books." Jason, you're making a mess with all those names you're dropping.
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superficial
Robert Scoble plays dirty uncle in Amsterdam
A tipster writes in to tell us he was a little skeeved out by Fast Company TV videoblogger Robert Scoble. The offense? Manhandling the ladies at the NextWeb conference in Amsterdam two weeks ago.Recently in Amsterdam Scoble brought great embarrassment to the conference organization by not keeping his hands to himself. Every woman that had her picture taken with him was squeezed against him with his hands going everywhere.
All the photos on Flickr have judiciously been set to private, but our tipster managed to smuggle some of their own. Scoble nauseating even the abnormally permissive Dutch by cuddling teenaged startup hopeful Jessica Mah after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by mercury888: whats the dirt? Please share and yes i beleive she is 18 now. more » | Other threads
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valleywag calendar
How to become an Internet rock star, the Gary Vaynerchuk way
Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuck has no boobs, but he's been on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, he's got a book deal, and went from successful small businessman to having The 250 drink his entrepreneurial Kool-Aid. How did he do it? Free booze. Party like an Internet Rockstar at Medjool with Gary Vee and see how it's done. (Photo by Brian Solis)
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By Jackson WestComment by shamess: I'm guessing that Kevin Rose dropping his name in a lot of Diggnation episodes helped him reach his fame too. more » | Other threads
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heather armstrong
Angry mom-blogger runs over haters
Lots of businesses get hate mail, but few owners react the way Dooce's Heather Armstrong does. She prints out nasty emails, puts them in her driveway and drives over them with her car. "That's the attitude I have," she says, "and it's made my life a thousand percent better."
I stopped reading at "a thousand percent." (Photo by Heather B. Armstrong)
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By Paul BoutinComment by michellew_: I'm a mommy blogger, and although I agree that very little of what Dooce has to say these days would... more » | Other threads
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the 250
Revision3 beats Digg at dodgeball
In a best-of-nine match held on UCSF Mission Bay's campus, Revision3 beat Digg 5-4 to kick off San Francisco's dodgeball season. The online video network took home nerd bragging rights — and all-star free agent Kevin Rose, pictured here making a diving catch.Revision3 Coach David Prager stated in a press conference after the game, "Digg came to play dirty, but little did they realize that we can play dirtier." In a post game interview, Digg's Kevin Rose said, "I founded both companies ... I'm going to join the Revision3 team now."
Revision3 will now have to face off against a number of unknowns in the six-team league, but coach Prager assured me that he's open to challenges from other local startups. Video of the dramatic final game after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by shamess: @categorically: It's clearly an employment motivation technique. If your company doesn't do something like that, then you're at a sucky... more » | Other threads
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mareen fischinger
Lodwick's latest flame pitches Muxtape for him
Meet Mareen Fischinger, a photographer from Düsseldorf, Germany, according to her Tumblr blog. "I don't know anything about her," a source tells us, "Just that Jakob [Lodwick] is [redacted] her." We have a little more to add to the scoop. Besides her obvious eye for photography, Fischinger shares her boyfriend's talent for pitching Muxtape without disclosing his relationship to the company.
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the 250
The photo Pete Cashmore would pay to delete from the Internet
Saturday's Twitterati Drinkup, a self-mocking gathering of the 250, almost saw the ruin of blogger Pete Cashmore, if you believe Pete Cashmore. In an effort to keep the following image out of the hands of "the media," Mr. Mashable offered compensation to photographer Andrew Mager in the form of blogging about him, and when that didn't work, actual money. As he explained to the lady whose tit he's tilting at, Nikol Hasler of the video podcast Midwest Teen Sex Show, "This is the sort of thing Gawker and Valleywag would have a field day with." Sorry, Pete, but we're not sharing this one with Gawker.
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the 250
Science proves it — no one trusts bloggers
Steve Rubel, Edelman PR's Director of Insights, posts an insightful chart from an international survey (PDF) Edelman conducted. It shows that "opinion elites," defined as college-educated people in the top income quartile of their country who report a significant interest in and engagement with the media, business news, and policy affairs — that's you! — mostly trust people like themselves. Who's at the bottom of the trust-o-meter? Bloggers, who fell well behind company CEOs. Regular company employees are given much more credibility. This is why Google's PR people slap engineers' names on those blog posts the marcom specialists type up, and why Nick Denton announces changes at Gawker Media by letting me "leak" them. Trust me, I'm a blogger.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Wabewalker: What about CEOs that are bloggers? What does it all mean for Jonathan Schwartz? Will he take their advice... more » | Other threads
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conferences
TechCrunch50 vs. Demo — a fight guide
Conference gnomes will need to choose sides. Blog moguls Jason Calacanis and Michael Arrington have teamed up to schedule their TechCrunch50 show in September in direct competition to Chris Shipley's Demofall event. I've prepared a cheat sheet to follow the action at a distance. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by demo-tc50truth: there are rumors floating about that Mike Segal, who helps run Demo alongside Chris Shipley, has been dating Michael Arrington's... more » | Other threads
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comments
Commenter of the week: random_play
This made me LOL for real: In this post about the memo CNET CEO Neil Ashe sent out regarding CNETs recent layoffs, commenter random_play penned a beauty:The memo is as transparent as it is salient. Simply, Neil Ashe states that CNET needs to embrace change by exploiting their first-mover advantage to drive efficiencies by conceptualizing and architecting brand-centric, seamless, end-to-end, best-of-breed solutions for forward-leaning virtual communities.
But wait, we're just getting started: More »
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Comment by In Other News...: Cutting and pasting into our "Mission Statement." Thanks! more » | Other threads
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the 250
How StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp rolls
A tipster — tipsy? — shares this information about StumbleUpon founder and The 250 member in good standing Garrett Camp: "If you meet Camp, get his business card. Get several, if you can." Whatever for? "The cards are prized in certain SoMa circles, but not for the information printed on the front: They're ideal for rolling roaches. True, any unlaminated card can suffice, but apparently the cardboard in Camp's cards is the 'perfect consistency' for joints." If you find yourself in immediate need, Camp's office is directly above the 111 Minna art gallery in San Francisco. Smoke 'em if you've got 'em. (Photo via Technology Review)
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By Owen ThomasComment by Hez: Joints rolled with your ex-employer's business card as the filter are the way to go. Especially when you can still... more » | Other threads
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friendfeed
Social media begins to fold in on self, space-time collapse imminent
Lovably cranky early adopter Eric Rice points out that the reverb in the echo chamber is beginning to cause eye-splitting feedback loops. Normally harmless Twitter posts are automagically crossposted to Jaiku and Tumblr, where all three show up on FriendFeed, polluting your friends' RSS readers. They then curse your name, take screenshots, upload them to Flickr and blog about it. If you're not a member of The 250, you can probably ignore this budding trend safely — at least until it starts happening on Facebook.
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By Jackson WestComment by Alaska Miller: @matto: back in my day i had to walk to the post office to let people know what's going in my... more » | Other threads
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the 250
Bloggers fight hidden agenda with hidden agenda
Dear Dabble founder Mary Hodder: Please stop pestering my writers to blog opinion pieces about boring tech conference politics, but without mentioning your name. Why don't you just post on your own site, in place of the links to "Sexy bikini girls?" That seems easier.
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By Owen ThomasComment by random_play: @matto: and let me be the first to thank you for not videoblogging your cat. more » | Other threads
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100-word version
Michael Arrington on his CNET-killing blog rollup
Michael Arrington spends 1,517 words talking about blogs taking venture funding and his grand scheme to form a big, A-List blog network to take on CNET. Most of you are too busy raising money for your blogs to read all that. Here's our 100-word version — and a suggested name for the blog network he wants to launch. More »
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Comment by LongAgoYahoo: Technology news isn't that big a market. It's not a rapidly growing audience. Anyone who cares, already reads all these blogs. There are... more » | Other threads
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silicon valley users guide
Proper use of "The 250"
"The 250" (pronounced "two-fifty") is the derogatory term used in real-life conversations — never online! — to describe the self-promoting cloud of Web 2.0 popular kids who seem to be constantly typing but rarely building value. In short, The 250 only matter to The 250. I've collected and anonymized some real-life sentences from the field to help you use The 250 authentically. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by raincoaster: And somewhere, someone whose initials are adjacent to KB crosses one off the list and thinks "249 to go!" more » | Other threads
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