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more about #valleywag Magicant: No "swordfish" on the list. The Marx Brothers weep. more » Magister: Why would or should Twitter care, if someone could easily hack into your twitter account. I admit that I only use Twitter relatively sparingly, but o... more » econdave: abc123 Tito is bumming. more » DennyCrane: No. 22 (abgrtyu) seems sort of difficult, no? I'm sort of surprised. more » badasscat: Wow, there are a lot more fans of the film Victor/Victoria out there than I thought. more » homoviper: 40 & 41 are the same: asdfgh so bad they had to ban it twice? more » OMG! Ponies!: Thank goodness they didn't ban "Sugartits". I've been using that for all my accounts. more » kremlin-king: Can someone explain the difference between #19 and #20 I've stared at it for a while and can't figure it out. more » Jacques-SweatyTechnique-Paysan: nice to see that "Pencil" still remains secure as ever. more » dumanue: ncc1701? is that a startrek referenced password? more » shostakobitch: I didn't see "8=====D" on that list. more » snugbug: The best password I ever came up with is a Charles Bukowski quote. No way any password-cracking bot can figure out how to combine words like that. I h... more » lobstr: Pointless to have a list when they can just encode the backend to bounce back any PW that is not alphanumeric. That would solve the problem. Oh, twi... more » Brian Moylan: Both "iloveyou" and "lovers" are on the list. What is Carrie Bradshaw to do! more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: 171. Jenkem more » Smitros: But not Rockwell? Hm. more » ethanhein: more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: The very list they used to crack the GSM encryption! more » BlowJoy: #216 and #217 means people just really love monkeys. more » Swifter: They forgot Julia Allison's password, cupcake, and Denton's, 23skidoo. more » -
#underminers
How the Times Sabotages Its Own Tech Innovation
Blogrunner is the nifty online news aggregator the New York Times keeps forgetting it bought. Now the newspaper's deputy tech editor has embarrassed the site in an online chat. 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 » -
#rumormonger
Could Apple Buy Twitter?
Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Google and Microsoft have been giving the red-hot Internet-messaging startup the eye. But we hear it's Apple that's closest to sealing a deal, possibly for as much as $700 million.
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#buybacks
How eBay Can Have $3 Billion in the Bank and Still Be Broke
Look at eBay's books and it wouldn't seem to have money problems. But it's running a garage, unloading would-be Digg competitor StumbleUpon, and hopes to sell Internet phone service Skype. Why? More » -
#rumormonger
New AOL CEO Wants to Buy Twitter's Web Cool
An AOL tipster tells us incoming CEO Tim Armstrong, the Google sales veteran, wants to buy Twitter, the hot message-broadcasting startup. One problem: He hasn't even started at AOL yet. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Will Google Get Shamed Into Buying Twitter?
Real-time is the future of everything, someone wrote three seconds ago. And therefore, Google will pay hundreds of millions of dollars to buy Twitter! Welcome to the way acquisitions are done in Silicon Valley. More » -
#armchairgeneral
Why Amazon.com Should Buy Digg
Digg needs to sell itself. Kevin Rose's headline-voting site is drowning; the more popular it gets, the more red ink it generates. But who needs a bunch of news stories rated? Here's an idea: Amazon.com. More » -
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#acquisitions
Facebook's failed $500 million offer for Twitter? Totally happened.
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#meltdowns
CEO's $500,000 Salary Burns Startup Into Fire Sale
8020 Media hoped to revolutionize the magazine business. Instead, it has circled down the drain, ending up in the hands of shadowy investors after a new CEO with a Condé Nast résumé looted the startup. More » -
#bloggingfordollars
Yahoo Might Buy Tumblr, New York's Cutest Startup
We hear Yahoo is in talks to buy Tumblr, a blogging startup run by 22-year-old David Karp for "low-to-mid eight figures" — which would translate to a small fortune for the New York entrepreneur. More » -
#techcrunch
Michael Arrington Wishes He Could Quit Us
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, left distraught after a stranger spat on him at a tech conference in Munich, promised he'd take February off. Two days in, he's having a hard time leaving the Internet. More » -
#acquisitions
The Unbearable Yahoo-AOL-Microsoft Dance
Someone buy something, please. Our New York sighting of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock missed one: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who'd like to unload AOL. More » -
#nerdspotting
Microsoft CEO, Yahoo Chairman Meet in New York
So much for a new boss ending Yahoo's drama. Why did the company's chairman meet Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the Time Warner Center Thursday, two days after Yahoo named Carol Bartz its new CEO? More » -
#startups
Dodgeball, Overhyped and Underused, Deserved to Die
Google has axed six services, from Google Video uploads to a shopping-catalog search. But none has sparked more outrage than the closure of Dodgeball.com. Dennis Crowley, the friend-locating service's twentysomething founder, is miffed. More » -
#suedecker
Yahoo's Depressing Backup Plan
No one wants to buy Yahoo. And the only person who wants to run Yahoo is an insider who helped sink it. Is there any hope left for the beleaguered Web giant? More » -
#blackholes
It Costs Digg $5 Million a Year to Run the Internet
Perhaps Digg really is the future of the news business. The headline-discussion site, once an icon of the Web 2.0 movement, is losing millions of dollars a year.
