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From Poster Boy to Fright-Night Costume

Ryan Tate — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:24:41 EST

BusinessWeek made Kevin Rose a Web 2.0 poster-boy when its cover proclaimed he had "made $60 million," in completely imaginary money. Three years later, that bubble long gone, his picture makes the perfect ironic Halloween costume.

Jut ask the fellow at right in the picture above, snapped by Web developer Sean Percival on Oct. 31. It's an impressively faithful likeness of Rose's unintentional BusinessWeek pose. Rose, for his part, has a sense of humor about the costume, which is impressive, given that his unprofitable company is still waiting for its long-promised payday, and that his cover picture is now apparently a cultural icon of an absurd tech-bubble thinking.

(Right pic above by Sean Percival)

The Twitterati Panic Because Twitter's Down

Owen Thomas — Fri, 08 May 2009 17:36:55 EDT

What happens to the Twitterati when the site goes down for scheduled maintenance? Why, they temporarily turn into Facebookerati, lest the world be deprived of their every last thought.

Social media enthusiast Adam Jackson embraced the new medium.

Valleywag commenter Matt Ghali dryly noted Twitter's new maintenance routine.

Los Angeles tech scenester Sean Percival suggested a new hangout.

CNET News reporter Ina Fried had a straight-up freakout.

Search Engine Land editor Danny Sullivan pondered his options.

How did you survive the great Twitter blackout? Report your experience in the comments. 140 characters max!

Did you witness the media elite tweet something indiscreet? Please email us your favorite tweets — or send us more Twitter usernames.

Are Michael Arrington and Meghan Asha off again, and will Calacanis pick up the rebound?

Jackson West — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:20:00 EDT

Meghan Asha has been tied to notoriously workaholic TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington over the last few months. But could she be tiring of a beau with no work-life balance?

I need more dinners out with Jason Calacanis, rarely do you see a successful entrepreneur with such balance in all aspects of his life.

Just idle speculation, granted. Calacanis may have proper balance in his life, but the workaholism he demands of employees is another matter. We know for a fact that Sean Percival, an early Mahalo employee, has moved over to startup DocStoc.

"Icy Hot Stuntaz — Revolutions"

Nicholas Carlson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:00:00 EDT

We hear Mahalo's "guides" — the editors who update the online directory's search-engine-friendly pages — only make between $30,000 to $35,000 a year, and their employer only grosses about $9,000 per month. But Sean Percival, Juan Aguilar and Mike Rhodes would you like to know they are nevertheless in possession of bling. Or something. Please tell us what. Best caption becomes the post's title. (Photo by sean percival)

Mahalo employee can afford a binary-tagged Audi A6

Nicholas Carlson — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:20:00 EDT

We reported — and CEO Jason Calacanis didn't really deny — that Mahalo grosses about $9,000 a month. But don't worry about Mahalo employees. Here, for example, is Mahalo employee Sean Percival's Audi A6. It costs between $43,725 and $57,075 . ~~Obviously, Percival is not a Mahalo guide.~~ Surprisingly, Percival is a Mahalo guide. They only make $30,000 to $35,000, we hear. By the way, if this handy binary to text conversion tool is correct, Percival writes 011000100110000101100100 code. (Photo by Eric Rice)