<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, lists]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, lists]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/lists http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/lists <![CDATA[3 Gawker Media Writers in Forbes Web Celeb 25]]> Every year, Forbes ranks the 25 most influential and recognizable digital celebrities, calling them "the biggest and brightest stars on the web." We're not sure what makes Forbes qualified to do this, but the money mag's accolades have not gone unnoticed. This year, three of our writers claimed spots on the critically eyed list - the Forbes Web Celeb 25:


Will Leitch - "rose to fame as the editor of Deadspin, the world's biggest independent sports blog"
Owen Thomas - "best known as the editor of Valleywag...infamous [!]"
Brian Lam - "man behind the curtain at one of the biggest blogs in the world—gadget site Gizmodo"

Our writers appear with other Internet notables and fameseekers: Matt Drudge, Seth Godin, Perez Hilton, Kevin Rose, etc.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5145803&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[BusinessWeek scrapes Techmeme for its latest list]]> Loic Le Meur! Gabe Rivera! Joi Ito! Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. BusinessWeek.com's latest 25 Most Influential People on the Web is a mashup of billionaire powerbrokers with a randomized handful of those folks you run into at that same little tech conference that happens under a different name every month. I'm guessing they left out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to create buzz. If you don't want to click through 27 pageviews on BusinessWeek's site, here's the entire list in alphabetical order:

  • Steve Ballmer
  • Mitchell Baker
  • Jeff Bezos
  • Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt
  • Jeff Clavier
  • Paul Graham
  • Arianna Huffington
  • Joi Ito
  • Steve Jobs
  • Jonathan Kaplan
  • Loic Le Meur
  • Jack Ma
  • Matt Mullenweg
  • Rupert Murdoch
  • Craig Newmark
  • Gabe Rivera
  • Kevin Rose
  • Sheryl Sandberg
  • Jon Stewart
  • Peter Thiel
  • Maria Thomas
  • Anssi Vanjoki
  • Jimmy Wales
  • Evan Williams
  • Jerry Yang
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5056554&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Scoble 165 — you're not on it]]> If you follow Robert Scoble at all — and you sort of have to unless your DSL is dead — you know he can't help overproliferating everything he does. While the entire staff of Vanity Fair takes months to assemble its 100 most powerful list, Fast Company's token webhead spews 165 names in one pass for his "hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding." Robert, let me put on my old Condé Nast editor's hat and redline this back to you: GREAT START, BUT PLS TELL US WHO THE FK THS PPL ARE:

Aaron Brazell
Adam Lasnik
Alana Taylor
Alex Albrecht
Alex Williams
Allen Stern
Andrew Baron
Andru Edwards
Andy Beal
Andy Ihnatko
Anthony Citrano
Ben Metcalfe
Benjamin Higginbotham
Bhaskar Roy
Bret Taylor
Brian Shields
Brian Solis
Charlene Li
charles cooper
Charles Hudson
Chris Brogan
Chris Messina
Chris Nuttall
Christopher Allen
Christopher Galtenberg
Chuq Von Rospach
Colide81 (James)
Corvida
Craig Eddy
Craig Newmark
Cyndy
dan farber
Dan Fernandez
Danny O’Brien
dannysullivan
Dare Obasanjo
Darren Barefoot
dave mcclure
Dave Morin
Dave Taylor
Dave Winer
David Armano
David Sifry
David Swain
david weinberger
debbie landa
Deborah Micek
Dion Almaer
Doc Searls
Don Dodge
Don MacAskill
Duncan Riley
Dwight Silverman
Ed Bott
engadget
Erhan Erdogan
Eric Eldon
Francine Hardaway
Fred Wilson
Gabe Rivera
Harry McCracken
Hutch Carpenter
James Kendrick
James Urquhart
Jason Falls
Jay Rosen
Jeff Jarvis
Jeremiah Owyang
Jeremy Toeman
Jesse Stay
Jessica Guynn
Joe Wilcox
John Furrier
Joi Ito
Joshua Dilworth
joshua schachter
Justin Korn
kamla bhatt
Kara
Karim
Karsten Januszewski
Keith Teare
Ken Camp
l0ckergn0me
laura “@pistachio” fitton
Liz Gannes
Long Zheng
Lora Heiny
Loren Heiny
Louis Gray
Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins
Mark Trapp
Marshall Kirkpatrick
Mashable
mathew ingram
Matt Cutts
Mediabistro.com
michael arrington
Michael Krigsman
Michael Wesch
mike “glemak” dunn
Mike Butcher
Mike Cannon-Brookes
Mike Cassidy
Mike Doeff
Mike Fruchter
MikeAmundsen
Mitchell Tsai
Molly E. Holzschlag
Nir Ben Yona
noah kagan
Nova Spivack
Omar Shahine
Ontario Emperor
Patphelan
Paul Buchheit
paul mooney
Paul Stamatiou
Paul Thurrott
Pete Blackshaw
Pete Steege
Peter Semmelhack
Rachel Clarke
Rafe Needleman
Rebecca MacKinnon
Richard Binhammer
Rob Bushway
Robert Hof
Robert Sanzalone
Rodney Rumford
Roger Kondrat
Ryan Block
Scott Beale
ScottBourne
sean percival
seth goldstein
Shel Israel
slashdot
Steve Broback
steve clayton
Steve Garfield
Steve Gillmor
Steve Lacey
Steve Outing
Steve Rubel
Steven Hodson
Stowe Boyd
Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
susan mernit
Susan Scrupski
Svetlana Gladkova
Tamar Weinberg
Terry Heaton
Thomas Hawk
Thomas Vander Wal
Tim O’Reilly
Todd Cochrane
Tom Foremski
Tom Merritt
Warner Crocker
Werner Vogels
Woody Pewitt
Yaron Samid
zefrank
Zoli Erdos
~C4Chaos

(Photo by Brian Solis)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5055578&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Once again, Vanity Fair leaves geeks at the kids' power table]]> Preeminent among the magazine world's kingmaking power lists is Vanity Fair's New Establishment, which appears in the October issue — on newsstands in L.A. and New York today, but not in the Bay Area for another six days. Silicon Valley gets similar short shrift: The names who make it there are predictable bigs like Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, or Hollywood-crossover types like Jeff Skoll, eBay's first employee turned movie producer. Walt Mossberg, now employed by New Establishment perennial Rupert Murdoch, also squeaked in. The consolation prize Vanity Fair offers: Its "Next Establishment" list, reserved for the likes of Twitter's Ev Williams. It's a marvelous piece of New York media trickery — flatter the geeks by making them feel included, but corral them into a side room so the real power brokers aren't offended by comparison. True, the "Next Establishment" suggests that these are people who might matter in the future. But in saying that, Vanity Fair's editors are also sending the message that right here, right now, its "Next" nominees are nobodies. On this year's list:

  • Wendi Deng Murdoch, MySpace China
  • Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, MySpace
  • Max Levchin, Slide
  • Robin Li, Baidu
  • Markos Moulitsas, DailyKos
  • Elon Musk, SpaceX
  • Ali and Hadi Partovi, iLike
  • Mika Salmi, MTV
  • Dmitry Shapiro, Veoh
  • Quincy Smith, CBS
  • Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times
  • Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital
  • Evan Williams, Twitter
  • Andrew Zolli, PopTech
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5044995&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[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.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5027483&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[10 iPhone apps that will drive you into Steve Jobs's clutches]]> Apple's new, faster 3G iPhones go on sale in the U.S. tomorrow, but a new store where Apple will sell third-party iPhone applications opened for business today. (Something to do with when the iPhone 3G went on sale in New Zealand. Those international date lines are so confusing!) The apps mostly range from free to costing $10, and you buy them on iTunes like you would an album or a TV show. Here are ten that will crush your last remaining resistance to Apple CEO Steve Jobs's demands.

Sure, my Sanyo phone has an AOL Instant Messanger app. But it takes two and half minutes to send a message and then another two and a half to see if I got one back. Here's a new version for the iPhone, which could put an end to expensive text messaging. An alternative: Facebook's new iPhone app integrates the site's new chat feature.

Remember radio? That place where you could listen to and discover music without paying for it? It's back.

FileMagnet lets you load and view PDFs and Office documents from you desktop. Such a nice convenient way to keep you working all the time.

This app, a guitar tuner that uses the iPhone's microphone, obviously targets a niche audience. We're betting the Edge asked Jobs for it

This Major League Baseball app would be better if it streamed MLB.tv straight to your iPhone. It doesn't. But it does show game highlights not too long after they actually happen — which won't be a bad way to get through graduations, weddings and PowerPoint presentations.

DutchTab takes the pain out of splitting a tab so you don't have to ask the server to do it. Only problem: greasy fingers on your iPhone.

After using DutchTab to figure out how much you owe, send your friend the cash via PayPal. Seriously, in 2000, the folks at PayPal thought this was how people would use the service rather than to settle eBay auctions. The future is here!

Always be closing, right? Keeping your leads' contact info in your pocket at all times will at least get you the steak knives.

Muxtape founder Justin Ouellette showed us what can go wrong when you have to email blog posts from your iPhone instead of being able to use an app like TypePad. (If you upload the wrong file, you still might end up blogging your deal memos by mistake, though.)

The oversharing generation's perfect app. Opt in and your friends will know where you are at all times.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5023844&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The 50 worst Twitters ever]]> A compilation of the most impressively bad brain farts, misguided social-media outreach efforts, user-generated meltdowns, and episodes of Twittering-under-the-influence. [Inside CRM]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5018074&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Time's 50 best websites make money (if they do)]]> Why is Microsoft so panicked over Google-Yahoo? Time's list of 50 best websites provides an anecdotal answer. Of the 50, 18 rely on Google ads for their income. Only one, UrbanDictionary.com, uses Microsoft ads. Yahoo doesn't fare much better — only brokering impressions for Rate My Professors and its own site on the list, Yahoo Answers. Below, find Time's entire list and how each site apparently makes its money (if it does at all — seven are run by volunteers).

  • By the numbers
  • Ad-supported:36
  • Google ads: 18
  • Microsoft ads: 1
  • Yahoo ads: 2
  • In-house ad sales teams: 3
  • Sell goods: 2
  • Sell physical goods: 1
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5017564&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[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.

  • "He got fired because he was more interested in joining The 250 than doing his job."
  • "I didn't blog about my deal, because I don't care what The 250 have to say about it."
  • "He's writing a book? Great, I'm sure he'll sell at least 250 copies."
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368691&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The 250]]> They don't read this, eitherNot every conversation happens online. A phrase you won't find on Twitter or Technorati is The 250 — pronounced "two-fifty" — a cruelly sarcastic euphemism used in real-life conversations for the small, cliquey group of self-appointed Web 2.0 insiders who seem to spend their days blogging and Twittering about one another. The gist is that The 250 are the 250 people who matter to The 250. None of the other 6 billion people on Earth care which of The 250 are dating each other or got onto a panel at South By Southwest. I'm loathe to name names other than Valleywag editor Owen Thomas, whose site the other 249 check obsessively for mentions of themselves.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=368529&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[We're all a bunch of greedy bastards]]> San Francisco is the city every manchild with a wee knowledge of Ajax and a penchant for dropping vowels from proper nouns flocks to in the hopes of striking a venture capital goldmine. It's not exactly a revelation that you're all a bunch of greedy louts, but Forbes, in what is no doubt a highly scientific study, has determined San Francisco is the country's second most avarice-riddled city — beaten only by its brethren in San Jose. It's also happens to be the most proud. Who's surprised that Oakland turns up as the sixth most wrathful — that is, gun-toting — place in the U.S.?

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=361014&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Web's top 10 top 10 lists]]> FireworksWhy all the lists heading into 2008? Well, laziness. That, and the urge to reflect on the year gone by. No, mostly laziness. And in that spirit, we present you Valleywag's top 10 list of top 10 lists. Oh yeah — our lazy, it's meta.

  • The Web's top 10 top 10 lists
  • 10. Wired's "The 10 Best Gadget Ads of 2007" makes our list because it points out why everyone wants an iPhone. Apple's genius ads.

  • 9.The New York Times' "Buzzwords 2007" can has number 9. LolCatNYTIMES.jpg
  • 8. eMarketer's Predictions for 2008 makes our list because we're so handy with their charts. eMarketer.gif

  • 7. Tumblr founder David Karp's 2008 Tech Predictions.
    Google will launch the Web Service competitors GStorage, GCompute, and GAmazonFlexiblePaymentService.

  • 6.Your Best Shot 2007 Samplr, collected by Flickr, features the most interestingness of any list in our top ten. Flickr.jpg
  • 5.Silicon Alley VC blogger Fred Wilson sure can pick 'em. No, not startups. Rock bands. Like the ones in his Top Ten Records 2007.

  • 4.The second Wired entry — out of nearly a dozen folks, so there's real competition here! — to make our list has to be The Top 10 New Organisms of 2007 because it reviews how we did playing God last year.
    Cancer-fighting Clostridium bacteria Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment mean that a cancer diagnosis is no longer always a death sentence. But certain oxygen-starved parts of tumors are still difficult to reach with the old methods. Enter the Clostridium family of bacteria. Injected into the body, they grow and multiply only in the oxygen-poor parts of cancer tumors. In September, scientists in the Netherlands showed they could arm Clostridium bacteria with therapeutic protein genes, essentially creating search-and-destroy tumor missiles.

  • 3.We're not going to pretend we understand the Large Hadron Collider, which comes online in 2008, according to Ars Technica'spredictions for 2008. "The Higgs boson, supersymmetric particles, and dark matter candidates all beckon," Chris Lee writes. We'll just show you this neat video.



  • 2.Tech CEOs say the darndest things, don't they? Like remember when Zuck said media changes every 100 years? Wired's editors do, and they bring it all back in their 2007 Foot-in-Mouth Awards.
    There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60 percent or 70 percent or 80 percent of them than I would to have 2 percent or 3 percent, which is what Apple might get. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on the iPhone, which is outselling all Windows Mobile phones combined.



  • 1. How's this for meta? We're going to declare Valleywag's own "The Web's top 10 top 10 lists" the winner. Meta FTW!

(Photo by andrer69)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338127&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hot, not, or forgot?]]> It takes the gang at Wired — which, full disclosure, I still write for and have a soft spot for, even if I'm fired again after this post — a couple of months to ship one of their Wired / Tired / Expired lists. This leads to missed comic timing. With Web 2.0 Summit buzz still circling, "Tired: Facebook apps" in the new issue feels either too early, or a week late. No such problem here. We whipped off our own list in six minutes this morning. (Note to unfunny tech workers: Calling Chris Anderson's magazine "Tired" is so totally over. Valleywaggers prefer "The Long Fail.")

Hot Not Forgot
—- —- ———
Google stock       Microsoft stock       Netscape stock
iPhone iMac Ibiza
Xeni Jenni Benny
iJustine Justin.tv Justin Hall
Wii tennis Wii fishing We Media
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=313835&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Microsoft's Web portal runs PC World's rundown...]]> Microsoft's Web portal runs PC World's rundown of the 25 worst websites — including two owned by Microsoft. [MSN]

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=284874&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Game the system]]> We've dissected Time's list of the five worst websites. Now it's your turn to tweak their poll for the best ones to your satisfaction. (Time.com is still using the same weakly protected polling system as the heavily gamed People Who Matter Now poll from Business 2.0.) The kids from Y Combinator, entrepreneur Paul Graham's startup camp, have already admitted to artificially beefing up the votes for Weebly, a Y Combinator-backed startup — but why let them have all the fun? Here are Valleywag's picks on whose ballots to stuff.


  • Weebly: It has a head start, so let's see if we can push them back down!
  • ING Direct: A boring bank, but its fees are low, so vote it up.
  • StumbleUpon: Take pity on the StumbleUpon guys: They just got bought by eBay, so they could use some cheering up.
  • Bix: How meta — voting for Yahoo's online version of the American Idol vote-a-thon. We're betting this one doesn't come back next week.
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=276893&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The 5 worst websites (according to Time)]]> Time has deigned to inform the public of the 5 Worst Websites on the Internet. Yes, the same magazine that named YOU the Person of the Year in 2006 is telling you the five sites to avoid. But first, we'll add a sixth to the list: Time.com, for wasting so many expensively edited words on five websites that clearly don't deserve them. After the jump, we read Time's list so you don't have to.


  1. Dating site eHarmony. The review starts scathing ("its power to cause utter despair") and ends ominous ("The site also discriminates against gays.") Sounds like a Time writer has been watching rival Chemistry.com's advertising copy.
  2. Evite. The site design is dated and clumsy — just like Time's analysis of why it sucks, plainly cribbed from Valleywag.
  3. Meez. We never heard of this personal avatar creation tool, and we wish we hadn't. Thanks, Time
  4. MySpace. Last year, it was one of Time's "50 Coolest Web Sites." Looks like Time Warner is cutting back on the Lexis-Nexis budget for clip searches.
  5. Second Life. Again, slavishly following Valleywag, Time disses the corporate world's embrace of Second Life as "a case of some CEOs trying too hard to be hip." Just like some venerable glossies we know.
]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=276868&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Color me Web 2.0]]> logo-by-color.jpgWeb 2.0's real killer feature are its logos. The Dr. Web Weblog spreads out Web 2.0 logos on a chromatic scale in a clickable list. A rough Babelfish of the German intro:

Really that is meaningful not, me it however for fun made. Follows each quantity of Logos, which lead all together the note beta with itself.

Now if only someone made a composite image, we could see the Average Face of Web 2.0.

Via 3spots, who has some more, er, useful lists of its own.

First, there are the Ajax (or Flash) Startpages (or Homepages) — with commentary on each.

Second, All the digg-style applications: The list — now this one's a monster. Attention all TechCrunch subjects: here's another list of competitors for you.

Beta-Logo-Parade [Dr. Web]
Ajax (or Flash) Startpages (or Homepages) [3spots]
All the digg-style applications: The list !!! [3spots]
Earlier: Logo 2.0 redux [Valleywag]
And: Web 2.0 logo fonts [Valleywag]

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