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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 » -
#realestate
Pimped-Out Venture Capitalist Riding High Again
Tom Perkins has been a barometer of plutocratic spending amid economic meltdown. That barometer is now signaling a comeback, if only for the real estate market, as Perkins scoops up a royal penthouse atop the San Francisco skyline. More » -
#venturecapital
Silicon Valley's Mass Delusion
The Brits at the BBC checked in on the Silicon Valley economy, and found this horrific scene: People quitting perfectly good jobs and investing perfectly good money under the delusion that boom times are here again. Ouch. More » -
#drugs
Which Venture Capitalist Is A Closet Pothead?
Justin Hartfield, the proprietor of online pot-dispensary locator WeedMaps, says a prominent VC has offered to buy the site himself — but doesn't want his employer's name aired in public. More » -
#google
Google Venture Fund Run by Old Pal of Cofounder's Wife
Silicon Valley is a meritocracy. Yeah, right! Take a look at who's behind Google's new $100 million venture-capital fund, and you'll see how things really work in the cradle of technology. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Twitter Now Worth $230 Million, According to Investors
No money? No problem! Twitter doesn't have any actual revenues, but venture capitalists have poured another $35 million into its coffers, valuing the text-update service for hipster oversharers at $230 million. More » -
#schadenfreude
Facebook's Value: $3.7 Billion and Dropping
What's Facebook really worth? The fast-growing social network is adding to its 150 million users effortlessly. But revenues aren't growing as easily. And that has Mark Zuckerberg's company tied up in legal and financial knots. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Why Twitter Is the Perfect Startup
The financial world is in ashes. But that makes adorable little startup Twitter all the more precious. It is perhaps the only Internet dream left. And any economist will tell you that scarcity creates value. More » -
#venturecapital
Shirt-Doffing Tech Investor Loves Washington's "Cancer on Nation"
Tim Draper, the name-dropping venture capitalist who funded Hotmail and Skype, met a bunch of Washington insiders like John McCain and Vernon Jordan. He loved them all. He also thinks they're a "cancer"! Go figure. More » -
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#recessionomics
Can Björk Save a Ruined Iceland?
Björk, the quirky Icelandic singer, is investing her very emotions in a fund for startups, in the hopes of turning her near-bankrupt country into a green paradise. Sort of! -
#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.
