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Valleywag: Silicon Valley gossip rag
And now for something a
little different: Valleywag is a new blog from Gawker (the people who make Lifehacker, to name just one) that's "a tech gossip rag focusing mainly on
the people and stories of San Francisco and Silicon Valley." In ...
Download Squad's Pictures from The Crunchies After-Party
Don't worry, we're not going all Valleywag on our loyal readers, but with a bucket-load of photos from the Crunchies (and ensuing party) we thought it wise to separate the sober from the (Myspace-sponsored) party photos from San Francisco's City ...
Om Malik brings Calacanis and Rose together for a rare photo-op
It's no secret that Jason Calacanis -- founder and former head-hancho of Weblogs, Inc. -- and Kevin Rose -- that Digg kid -- have a mild feud between them. After Calacanis re-launched Netscape.com as a competing social news portal, albeit with a ...
Rumor: Yahoo! to launch Digg competitor
While Yahoo! fields merger/hostile takeover offers, the company's development team continues to push out new services. Today Yahoo! launched a retooled version of its video site. And Valleywag is reporting that the company will be launching a brand ...
Om Malik leaves Business 2.0, seeks funding
Apparently it's a week for leaving the nest, if you're a tech blogger, at least. The weekend saw the departure of Robert "Scobleizer" Scoble from Microsoft, and yesterday just-as-notable blogger Om Malik announced (after Valleywag broke the story) ...
Niall Kennedy leaves Microsoft's Windows Live division
Niall Kennedy, the self-described "feed syndication geek" who left Technorati in April to become a product manager in Microsoft's Windows Live division, this week announced that he's leaving Microsoft to start his own company. Kennedy describes the ...
Explosion at PayPal headquarters
In a-little-outside-the-mainstream news, there seem to have been a large explosion at PayPal's San Jose headquarters last night. Nobody was injured, but 26 employees were evacuated and indications seem to be that the blast was caused by an explosive ...
Microsoft + Seinfeld = Yadda, yadda, yadda
After putting out two or three (depending on how you count them) ads that left a lot of people scratching their heads, Microsoft is apparently pulling the plug on its ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld. ValleyWag reports that Microsoft will ...
Yahoo! launches stealth beta of myM: A Meebo competitor?
Yahoo! appears to be working on a new social networking/chat service. MyM is in private beta at the moment, so we can't tell you much about it, but Silicon Valley gossip rag Valleywag reports that the service could be some sort of web-based instant ...
Troubleshooting RSS addiction: a blogger finds freedom in a world without feeds
It's part of our culture to want to get more done in less time, so it's unsurprising RSS readers are so popular nowadays. But what happens when efficiency and productivity start to replace general happiness? Well, that's what happened to a long ...
YouTube flagging videos of content owners
YouTube has been linking copyrighted videos uploaded by third parties to their respective content owners. This occurred with a Modest Mouse video, which YouTube linked to the official Modest Mouse page. The link says "Contains Content From: Sony ...
Hungarian student throws eggs at Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
OK let's be honest. Who hasn't wanted to throw eggs at Steve Ballmer at some point. You know, you're up late at night trying to finish some report, and suddenly your computer crashes and you lose three hours worth of work (never mind the fact that ...
MySpace's lawyers shut down SingleStat.us
SingleStat.us, a service I covered earlier this month that will notify you when your special someone changes their MySpace status, has been shut down by those buzz-killers at News Corp., MySpace's parent company. The site's creator, David Weekly, has ...
Ning is pro-freedom, and porn agnostic
Marc Andreessen of Ning is our hero. Ning, the online platform that allows users to create and maintain their own social networks, seems to have a few naughtier communities its midst. We'd be more shocked to hear it didn't, quite frankly. This is the ...
Craiglist demands fan blog's domain - joins 21st century
Yesterday, we posted that Craigslist joined the 20th century with a 1990's-esque blog to let the world in on what's going on within the inner self of Craigslist. Today, Craigslist is already making fantastic progress through time. No, the blog still ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
