Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tired of carrying excess computing weight? Take the mobile vs. Web challenge at MobileBeat 2008, VentureBeat's wireless conference. Rich Miner, cofounder of Google's Android effort, and Sam Waltman,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
MacMike News (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Apple’s MobileMe is far too flawed to be reliable,” the Sage of Potomac pronounced yesterday. It’s a rare swipe from Walt Mossberg, the guy better known for writing Steve Jobs’s marketing slogans… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Original post by [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Widgetmakers are fated for a fun famine at Facebook's sold-out F8 conference. (Say that five times fast!) The problem I wish they'd work on: Stalking people on Facebook and other social apps requires... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
All Things Digital (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Owen Thomas, Managing Editor, Valleywag Here are all the talking points you’ll hear about Kevin Johnson’s departure as the chief of Microsoft’s sprawling Platform and Services Division — and what to say about them. The failed Yahoo bid killed his prospects of becoming Microsoft’s CEO. Perhaps, but Steve Ballmer, who is more to blame for [...]
raincoaster (Free subscription) | yesterday
China Gets Real stolen from Valleywag where, surprisingly, it was not posted by Comrade Jackson
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The days top stories, bought to you in finest LOLCat Violet Blue has slapped a restraining order on a Wikipedia editor who objects to her boyfriend editing her Wikipedia Entry. Victim 2 Aggressor fail. More at Valleywag and original image credit: Thomas Hawk.
lancerlord (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Half of the 50 hottest girls on Digg are fake -- but the site works anyway : Valleywag lists 50 profiles of "hotties" on Digg. Hot-girl pics are to Digg users as lists are to editors. Unashamedly, we present the 50 hottest girls on Digg (okay, fine, the first 50 hot girls we found on Digg), and checked their profiles to determine whether they were likely to be real or fake. Then we built a spreadsheet...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Want to mingle with a bunch of stock-option-laden Googlers? Brush up on your FCC spectrum-allocation rules and prepare for a lot of small talk about wireless broadband at the Telecom Council of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Let's file this under "something you already guessed but now you have proof" category. Someone with a lot of time on their hands at ValleyWag has dissected entries of the "50 Hottest Girls on Digg" and found out much chicanery exists with such profiles. Can anyone be surprised by this revelation? I doubt it. Of course internet marketers (who dominate Digg) know that pictures of "hot chicks" always...
Mark Logic CEO Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
This is fun, but pointed. A do-it-yourself resignation letter generator for Yahoo employees. Ouch. Check it out, here (profanity warning). Valleywag blogs on it here .
freddie-dot-see-eh? (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Fake 'Digg'ers : Valleywag exposes…
Clickety Clack: Online Ad Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
But ValueClick's executives may not be particularly confident in the product — if rumors are true that they're talking to startup Revenue Science about an acquisition. From Valleywag. I asked what was up last week. I know in early 2007,...
Infectious Greed (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Another guest post The folks over at Valleywag are having fun with a Craigslist posting for a hedge fund job. In addition to looking for someone with all the typical quant skills, the ad asks applicants to do the following 1) Prepare a cover letter. 2) Flip a coin 50 times. Record the results on your resume as a sequence of heads (H) or tails (T) symbols. 3) Email your cover letter and resume to us....
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The invite-only Fortune Brainstorm: Tech is taking over the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay through Wednesday. Dreadfully convenient for Robert Scoble, who lives in town; not for Japanese VC Joi Ito,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The invite-only Fortune Brainstorm: Tech is taking over the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay through Wednesday. Dreadfully convenient for Robert Scoble, who lives in town; not for Japanese VC Joi Ito,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
