Valleywag is Gawker's column from Silicon Valley. Edited by Ryan Tate, it carries technology and internet gossip — the news too scurrilous and juicy for the industry's trade rags.
Accidental Billionaire: Priscilla is evidence of misappropriation of Facebook's VC funds in my opinion. She's given a job by his sugar daddy and a temporary work visa? Yeah I... more »
Assault Wookie: Man..there's something about his stride that just screams this. more »
panpaniscus: Okay, so maybe this is totally inappropriate, uncalled for and non-PC, but . . . from personal accounts, why does it seem that "nerdy" guys often tend... more »
twinklewondrkid: Cries of hypocrisy are easily trumped buy how hilarious I think this is. Yes I am on facebook and yes, I have had to fight to keep the site from feel... more »
Yahweh Took My Prepuce: Ah, Palo Alto... beautiful weather, slummy fashion, everyone quietly a polyglot and computer genius. I still don't understand when the hell anyone ac... more »
Facebook may have close to 500 million users, but it has one of the lowest scores on the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which ranks how people respond to certain companies. That means you like paying taxes slightly more than Facebook.
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Aspiring fameball Rachel Marsden once loved Fox News mastermind Roger Ailes like an uncle — even after his henchmen booted Marsden from the building. No more: in a "novel" she's shopping, Ailes is the "blubbery" villain.
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Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts, or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie Downer "deletionist" nerd army.
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Ohhh yeahhh, baby: Jimmy Walesdid just hand you a picture of his dapper self, giving you The Look. You know, the sultry one he's used on a long line of women. The look that says, "this card means business."
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Only about one in eight Wikipedia contributors and editors are women, according to a study by the online encyclopedia's own nonprofit operator. An unfortunate example of sexism? More like an example of the easily conned male ego.
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Ever clicked on some high-ranked Google result, only to land on a useless page of links, obviously created by spam software? Infuriating. Well, prepare to be maddened further; the Associated Press, avowed hater of the internet, will spam Google too.
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Apparently, mind-doctors are still using the Rorschach Test to diagnose the vapors, hysteria, and brain disequilibrium in their patients. And they're hopping mad, because Wikipedia has published the answers. More »
Chris Andersonhas been caught lifting huge chunks out of Wikipedia for his book Free. The irony speaks for itself. But it's worth noting that the Wired editor's excuses are disconcertingly clichéd.
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Wikipedia recently banned the Church of Scientology and its associates from contributing to the collaborative reference site. But maybe this is what the Scientologists wanted Wikipedia to do.
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In a rather extraordinary effort to crack down on the Church of Scientology's obsessive policing of its online public image, Wikipedia has banned all IP addresses owned or affiliated with Scientology from making edits to entries on its website.
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