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#meltdowns
What the Hell's Wrong with Gavin Newsom?
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race, and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess.
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#valleyspawn
Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
Courtenay Semel, the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan. Then she complains that the media twists her relationships. The nerve of this one.
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#lawsuits
Facebook Named in Federal Class-Action Suit over Scammy Zynga Ads
Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy.
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#marissamayer
The Google Princess' Fairy Tale Wedding
Marissa Mayer, Google's data-driven planner extraordinaire, has gone to work on her personal life: Friends of the VP are showing off the fancy wedding invites she just sent out — and talking about the three-day nuptials she's planning.
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#cubicleculture
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. More »
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#rumors
Killing Them Softly: The ______ Is Dead Twitter Meme
If the New York Times' The Moment blog and its Twitter feed "hear" that Moz is dead, does it actually happen? Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston writes: "This inspired a lot of panicked e-mails to me late last night." Why? More » -
#rolemodels
The Time Marissa Mayer Invented Google
Another month, another glossy fashion magazine spread for Marissa Mayer, this time in Glamour. We get it, already: the Google veep is a computer scientist in Oscar de la Renta; a nerd invited to prom. Why embellish her achievements? More » -
#exclusive
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter? Not so much.
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#kidstoday
Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear
That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job. More »
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#fameballs
Buy a Private Jet Trip with Ice Cream-Licking Art Star of Silicon Valley
Drue Kataoka sells engulfing quick dips in art and culture to rich Silicon Valley workaholics. Now she's selling the ultimate fast immersion: the chance to "leave your mark" on Kataoka's art during a private jet ride. More » -
#yourprivacyisanillusion
Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
Today Google rolled out the "Google Dashboard," which is supposed to "protect your privacy" by offering control panels for the company's many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More » -
#dontbeevil
Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
The town of Argleton, England doesn't exist, but you can search its white pages, look for nearby chiropractors and map a jog through town, because "Argleton" is on Google Maps. How'd the phantom town get there? Funny you should ask.
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#crime
Yelp Fights Make Leap To Real-World Violence, Says Reviewer
To hear Yelp reviewer "Sean C." tell it, San Francisco's Ocean Avenue Books really didn't appreciate his pan of the "TOTAL MESS" of a store: The owner somehow found his home, he said, and tried to force her way in.
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#breakups
Julia Allison's Secret, Staggeringly Heartbreaking Boyfriend
Julia Allison has broken up with her unlikely boyfriend, Christopher "Toph" Eggers. Yes, that Eggers: the younger brother of author Dave Eggers written about in Eggers' breakthrough memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
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#photogallery
What Does Arianna Huffington Really Look Like?
The Huffington Post has brought back its old trick of posting embarrassingly high-resolution photos of celebrities, Portfolio.com notes, to much controversy. HuffPo defends its pics as "playful spin on our... fascination with celebrity images." OK, let's "play." With your founder. More » -
#layoffs
On Firing Day, Busy Wired Editor Had Other Places To Be
Chris Anderson has plenty of distractions from editing Wired, including a lucrative sideline on the global lecture circuit and a tour to promote his new book. Anderson's prior commitments even removed him from the office on Wired's layoff day. (Updated)
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#geeksgonewild
What Gets a Freaky Google Overlord Excited at Night
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is a weird guy. A smart programmer whose ideas lifted humanity, but a weird guy nonetheless. A coder who dislikes coffee. An American who knows virtually nothing about baseball. And then there are his evening jollies. More » -
#thecinema
Facebook, as Cast by Hollywood
It appears Aaron Sorkin has confirmed many of the casting choices for his upcoming Facebook movie. If only Silicon Valley were this good looking. There's someone from Gossip Girl, Melanie Griffith's daughter — even a very built male model. More »
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#geeksgonewild
Yahoo Lap Dancers the Latest in a Chorus Line of Tech Sexism Scandals
Yahoo has apologized for providing lap dances on stage at a Tawian programming event. Critics aren't mollified, and that's probably just as well: it's all but certain something like this will happen again soon. More »
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#crime
Arrest Over Facebook 'Poke' Makes Meaningless Gesture Risque
When the internet was young and innocent, it was acceptable to "finger" college classmates. These days, a simple Facebook "poke" can land you in jail, in Tennessee, and CNN has say "alleged" poking, because, hey, libel. More »
