I don't know if you remember downloading music before Napster came along, but it was an experience not dissimilar to the BitTorrent experience today. And remember when you tried out Napster for the first time.

All I remember thinking as I was stealing massive amounts of sharing with close friends Metallica albums was, "This can't last." If Paul really wanted to create a Napster moment give the tv networks the Bird, let them bankrupt the company with lawsuits and then turn the animatronic corpse of TapeItOffTheInternet.com into the corporate apologist for DRM-hobbled content. Worked for Shawn Fanning.

A 'Napster Moment' [TorrentFreaks]
[TapeItOffTheInternet.com]

This has been quite a video heavy day here at Valleywag. Pud of Fucked Company fame and blog ad network Adbrite spent a whole 6 hours programming to build Fandalism.com a site for musicians to share MP3s and give feedback on tracks. Pud discusses his latest side project in this youTube video.

The site went live Monday and still needs some serious UI work, but we here at Valleywag enjoyed Borat's Be My Wife, give it a spin.

Be My Wife by Borat

Share and vote on music Fandalism Music Community

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Fandalism [Pud.com]

Digg partner Stamen Design won Best Costume by dressing as a team of dapper carpet salesmen.

Upcoming.org founder Andy Baio just licks the salt off these things and puts them back on the bar.

Diggers Daniel Burka and David Prager celebrated the launch with a day lying sideways on the beach. They do not regret getting these bizarre sunburns.

After the jump: "They call me....Mister Digg!"

One Tic Tac watch, Tic Tac iPod case, and Tic Tac flashlight later, gadget geek Philip Torrone's mouth smells like a mint factory.

Digg founder Kevin Rose can't run a site and shave at the same time.

Fucked Company founder Philip "Pud" Kaplan shows his no-nonsense version of "the shocker."

Diggnation podcaster Alex Albrecht: "We're hoping to get Mark Wahlberg to play me in the film, but I'm willing to do his stunts."

And that's how star power gets you written onto a guest list.

Digg co-founder Jay Adelson just thought of the perfect joke about midget sex, but he struggles against the inappropriate urge to blurt it out on stage.

OMG screenshot!

SF Chronicle writer Dan Fost to Microsoft manager Niall Kennedy: "Look, I'd like to make you the next Robert Scoble, but I don't have that kind of power."

Tier 1 founder Andy Shroepfer about gigablogger Om Malik: "Om said I could make fun of his John Travolta hair if I funded his next blog."

Digg v3 party photos [Laughing Squid]

Valleywag's first SloshCon at the House of Shields was so successful that my hangover's having baby hangovers. Remember the live-audience interviews and speeches on the game plan? Scrapped. We didn't want to ruin the vibe (half the crowd had arrived in the first 20 minutes), so we all kept on drinking and bullshitting one-on-one. (Top photo by Jeremiah Owyang)

Tag your Flickr'd party photos with "SloshCon" — just like the Mopping Up post says.

Irina Slutsky, host of Geek Entertainment TV, and Amber MacArthur, host of commandN and Call For Help — 66% of the blond vlogosphere. [Irina Slutsky]

Irina was overheard telling GETV producer Eddie Codel, "You need to feed me or videotape me, right now!" And who wouldn't gladly do both?

"So your claims to fame are a snarky site called Fucked Company, a nearly fucked company called AdBrite, and recording yourself in various costumes and, most disturbingly of all, your undressed body? And she is willing to date you?" Pud: "Yes." "Oh my God you're my hero." [Adam Engelhart]

A bewildered Jeff Veen points in bewilderment as TechCrunch's Michael Arrington and I (the tiny one) re-enact a favorite Arrington pose. [Brian Oberkirch]

Arrington says he made the first shocker when Tara Hunt went around at a party, telling everyone to do it. At the time he had no idea what the gesture meant. (Sure, Michael, sure.)

A friend of Jeff, by the way, greeted me with "So you're the one who almost fucked up Jeff's Measure Map deal?" (Yes. Yes I am.)

Famous awesome people who showed: Philip "Pud" Kaplan (a Valleywag favorite this week), TV star Amber MacArthur, Jon Grubb and Thor Muller (the Lennon and McCartney of Rubyred Labs), and Michael Arrington (Web 2.0's war correspondent)

Famous less awesome people who must have had a sudden emergency, like, their entire hometown just blew up: Digg founder Kevin Rose

See more of these webstars! Click past the jump!

Rubyred Labs and Valleyschwag co-founder Jonathan Grubb tastes like magic ice cream. [Adam Engelhart]

"Aaaaaah Pud, that's the best man-boy-love joke ever!" [Adam Engelhart]

Technorati principal engineer Kevin Marks and fresh Google hire Catspaw stare into the laptop photobooth of a fellow #joiito IRC chatter (that's at irc.freenode.net), Other Maciej, who has a whole gallery of liberally applied Photoshop effects from the party. [Other Maciej]

Best thing about geek parties is, if you're bored, you can just find a laptop and surf some animal porn. [Adam Engelhart

We had a webcast and a backchannel chat up in honor of the sober vicarious party-goers living in the middle of nowhere (read: not in the Valley). [Adam Engelhart]

Valleywag does Top Gun: "Too close for shots, I'm switching to beer." [Jeremiah Owyang]

That smile says "I don't know they're winding up for a Roxbury hip slam." [Adam Engelhart

Thanks for hanging out, Silicon Valley! Come back in the fall for "SloshCon 2: The Disappointingly Boring But More Productive Sequel!"

Flickr Galleries:
Other Maciej [Flickr]
Jeremiah Owyang [Flickr]
Adam Engelhart [Flickr]

For music of Pud actually singing (remaking oldies like "Angel of the Morning" under the name "The Metalizer"), check out his rockin' metal web site. (Thanks, Pud, for pointing it out — "Locomotion" will never feel the same.)

The Metalizer [Music site with mp3 links]

From the same employee, some pornalicious wagging:

They totally changed pud.com by the way, it used to link to mobog.com (his mobile phone porn site) and a few other sketch sites that he runs — they used to all be listed on his LinkedIn profile. You can clearly see the "email pud" link on the nav bar. I wonder if Mark Kvamme from Sequoia checks out those sites!

Oh, those halcyon years of the Internet! When men were real men, women were real women, and for $5.95 an hour they'd prove it to you! It wasn't so long ago, kids, that Philip "Pud" Kaplan of Fucked Company (yeah, the failed AdBrite CEO) was makin' home webcam videos — sexy threesome videos.

And more power to him — you mess around with a couple of hotties, you gotta share your joy with the world, right? After the jump, things get a little NSFW with three more tasty webcam shots.

With 93 captive viewers, why didn't Pud throw some banner ads up in here?

Webcams should come with breathalyzers.

Aaaaaand scene!

• Chairman: The traditional classic. As powerful as the board wants him to be.
• Founder: "Gone, daddy, gone." Louis Rossetto gets "Founding Editor" on the Wired Magazine masthead. Louis Rossetto hasn't edited a thing for Wired since Providence Equity seized control of Wired in 1997.
• Vice chairman: Extra gone.
• Chief Technology Officer: Great place to stick a nerdy founder who can't manage people. He attends conferences while the VP of engineering builds software.
• Chief Strategy Officer: Flip side of the CTO — he knows people but is totally faking the tech side.
• Chief [Name of Company]-er: Let's put it this way: When's the last time Yahoo CEO Terry Semel gave the stage up for "Chief Yahoo" Jerry Yang?

BONUS CHAT TRANSCRIPT:

Valleywag: And if you really do want the CEO to keep doing something — what do you make them?
Valley vet: CEO.
Wag: Really, a CEO has nowhere to go?
Vet: If they're useful, why move them? But Eric Schmidt shows that the CEO title doesn't necessarily mean anything.

Earlier: Bubblewatch: Folded and fucked [Valleywag]
Photo: Philip Kaplan [Noah Glass on Flickr]

"No, I'm not sorry about anything I wrote," Kaplan says of his days as Pud. "Much of what executives at dot-coms did back then was wrong. I'll always think it's wrong to lie to employees. We've never done that here."

One of the classic signs of a liar is an overemphatic repetition of words, especially words of affirmation or denial. But no, no one would accuse Pud of lying, not at all. It's wrong and it's just not done.

Dot-com exec gadfly Philip Kaplan cedes own CEO spot [CNET]
Earlier: Bubblewatch: Folded and fucked [Valleywag]

Now really, there's nothing wrong with cashing in on the porn biz. Or at least, that's what we tell ourselves at Gawker Media when NSFW Fleshbot promos are crawling all over our sites.

Really Fucked Company ["Official" site]

Here's why we are:

• Even Philip "Pud" Kaplan, the man who made his name dancing around the bloated corpses of dot-coms at Fucked Company, couldn't pull his own dot-com (Adbrite) into the black.
• And yet the company won't die.

Here's why we aren't:

• Pud gave up at playing CEO. Now he's just Adbrite's "Chief Product Officer."
• In other words, stick a fork in Mr. Fucked Company — he's done.

AdBrite Names Iggy Fanlo As CEO [PR Newswire]

• In a fit of business brilliance, Microsoft launched a paid PC care service, thus profiting from the shittiness of its own products. [Australian IT]
• Who's the "limited audience" for Google's new spreadsheet program? I hope it's John Hodgman. [Associated Press]
• New York Post gossip Lloyd Grove stalks Oracle CEO Larry Ellison by boat. His yacht, the Rising Sun, was last seen in Nice. [NY Daily News]
• Mr. Fucked Company is...fucked. Former dot-com schadenfreuder Philip Kaplan says his exit as Adbrite CEO was a mutual agreement. [CNET]
• Today in "A Million Tiny Google Screw-ups": journalist Jon Udell gets the runaround from the anal-retentive Google PR team. [InfoWorld]

What's really funny about the Socializr offices to me (I live next door) is that they are in the building just-until-a-couple-of-months-ago occupied by Pud (who now owns AdBrite).

About 6 months ago, I was out walking my dog, and saw that there was all this AdBrite trash out front: old plaques with yellowed Wall Street Journal clippings profiling the genius who started the F*ed Company phenomenon, with little brass titles of the date of the Journal article.

If it weren't for the fact that they were likely already peed on by various dogs and homeless people, I totally would have taken them home.

After the jump, the four honorable mentions.

Makethelogobigger finds his own favorite Steve Jobs edition.

Going with a write-in candidate here: Noah Wyle as Jobs in his Tucker Carlson phase.

Kyle Bunch broke the Internet.

Sorry everybody, my fault. I accidentally tripped over a cord.

Blackjack loves Baidu's martial-arts play but knows revenge is inevitable.

Bad. Ass. But will we see a Google ad that continues this one by turning the swordsman into a pincushion like Jet Li's character in "Hero"?

dljfs wants Marissa Mayer to croak "Koyaanisqatsi."

"Larry used the scanner, and she flipped the pages of a book to the rhythm of a metronome. They managed to get through a 300-page thick book in little over 35 minutes."

Google is starting a band! Sounds sorta Phillip Glass-y. I bet the light show will be AWESOME.

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