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All The Sad Young Startup Men
Introducing New York's own Web 2.0 "playboys"
The golden boys of New York's start-up scene are just as flashbulb-driven as the women who dote on them, a new Details mag feature reveals. Mostly they followed Tumblr's enfant terrible, David Karp, and his heterosexual beard Charles Forman, who pimps "social gaming" at iminlikewithyou but is still better known as last season's Mr. Julia Allison. There's a guest appearance by Kevin Rose, which you can just tell is going to get messy. He's inserted towards the end as the wise old sage, warning these new guys away from male Internet fameballing: More »
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Did Kevin Rose cash out?
The whispers have started: How much money did Kevin Rose make personally by selling shares in Digg's latest round of VC funding? The talk that Rose has sold shares is driven by equal parts envy and admiration. To understand the reaction, it helps to realize that the notion of an entrepreneur selling his own shares directly to investors before a public offering — getting out of the company just as other investors were getting in — used to be taboo in Silicon Valley. But that was before Wall Street's IPO machine broke down, and before merger activity dried up. Rose is at the vanguard of a seismic shift in how the Valley pays off its entrepreneurs. More »
8:00 AM on Thu Sep 25 2008
By Owen Thomas
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Latest by DarthMac: He created the site, so why would it be a big deal for him to get some money out of it? Let the guy enjoy his success. Actually, now that you mention it, I could use a good apprentice. more »
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Digg announces major increase in spending
Burn, baby, burn! That's the coded message in Digg CEO Jay Adelson's blog post about a "major expansion effort." The website, whose users rate and discuss news headlines, is hiring for 19 open positions, with more to come, as Digg expands internationally. Only at the end does Adelson mention how he's making this happen: $28.7 million in venture-capital financing. Coming after failed acquisition talks with Google, the financing round makes it clear that Digg is now planning to get bigger rather than sell out. It's a strange thing to celebrate. More »
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Apple to add Genius song-selling feature to iTunes
Digg founder Kevin Rose claims this iTunes 8 feature from a reliable source: More »
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Newsflash: Apple to unveil new products at new-products event
At a press conference scheduled for September 9, Apple will unveil "unspecified new products," reports Reuters. Thanks, Reuters guys — that really helps! The event's theme is "let's rock." In August, Digg cofounder Kevin Rose predicted Apple would announce a new iPod Nano, minor changes to its iPod Touch, price cuts to older iPod models and version 8.0 of iTunes — in other words, the same kind of update to its iPod product line Apple makes every fall. Our eternal gratitude, Captain Obvious!
We Read Twitter So Sheryl Sandberg Doesn't Have To
When he moved Facebook to the Bay Area, Mark Zuckerberg deliberately set up shop in Palo Alto, not the self-involved hipstersphere of San Francisco. But he's been spending a lot of time in the City lately. Friday, a tipster spotted him in SoMa, near Twitter's headquarters. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and lover of beer and women, met with Zuckerberg yesterday at the Samovar Tea Lounge. And Zuckerberg just added Twitter cofounder Evan Williams as a friend on Facebook.
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Mark Zuckerberg's new Twitter friends
When he moved Facebook to the Bay Area, Mark Zuckerberg deliberately set up shop in Palo Alto, not the self-involved hipstersphere of San Francisco. But he's been spending a lot of time in the City lately. Friday, a tipster spotted him in SoMa, near Twitter's headquarters. Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and lover of beer and women, met with Zuckerberg yesterday at the Samovar Tea Lounge. And Zuckerberg just added Twitter cofounder Evan Williams as a friend on Facebook.
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Kevin Rose's idea of the week, the iPower from Apple
Kevin Rose, the Casanovative founder of Digg, is concerned about the effect that all his whizbang gadgets are having on precious Gaia. He proposes that the heavenly father of the Jesusphone, the almighty Steve Jobs, develop an "iPower" system to monitor a home's electrical system. When your iPhone's GPS detects that you've left the house, the AirPort base station would trigger relay switches in power outlets around the house to shut off, saving precious joules from being wasted — something that a number of other companies are already developing, Rose readily admits. That's not a problem: Like all of Rose's ideas, this one involves someone else doing all the work. My only concern? Considering all the fecund females who've been associated with Rose over the years, it's only a matter of time before this dream becomes a reality — and then an awful nightmare. Because what happens when Robot Steve Jobs is given complete control over your home? More »
we read twitter so you don't have to
Obama now No. 1 on Twitter
I'm sure his followers will make a big deal of Captain Change's rise to the top of Twitter's most-followed-feeds scoreboard. But, um, look at the rest of that list. Nearly as many people are tuned into Digg founder Kevin Rose's meticulously documented drinking problem. Note to Obama staffers: Whatever you do, don't enrage 56,661 Twitterers by announcing his VP choice to CNN before you tweet it. Then again, there are 228 times that many voters in the AFL-CIO, and they watch TV. Go for it.
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