<![CDATA[Valleywag: NYC]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png <![CDATA[Valleywag: NYC]]> http://valleywag.com/tag/nyc http://valleywag.com/tag/nyc <![CDATA[ Google co-founder buys apartment above a Best Buy ]]> Best Buy at 15 CPW - ValleywagAn unidentified Google co-founder (Larry or Sergey) bought a dee-luxe apartment in the sky — a penthouse in New York City's forthcoming pre-war-style 15 Central Park West tower, says New York Magazine.

Sergey or Larry (or both — they share the jet, why not the penthouse) will live in the same building as Denzel Washington, Jeff Gordon, and...Best Buy.

Do you know which Googler will be upstairs from a big-box electronics store? Whisper in Valleywag's ear at tips@valleywag.com.

Google Guy Ends Search on CPW [NY Magazine]

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Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:07:43 PST Nick Douglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=211131&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Valleywag seeks Alleywag: Be our New York correspondent ]]> Bryant Park Grill - ValleywagNew Yorkers, we need you! Two events need Valleywag correspondents. Volunteers will write a quick (250-words-tops) report of each event or a particularly salient detail. If we like the write-up, they'll also be first in line for future Silicon Alley Valleywag work. To volunteer, e-mail tips@valleywag.com with "Alleywag" in the subject.

  • Can you read this line without losing your breakfast? "This Friday, October 13, The New Yorker's Ken Auletta will engage Marissa Mayer, the woman who has spear-headed almost every user-interface change to Google's website in the past two years, and Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Strategist and CTO of Microsoft and now the founder of Intellectual Ventures, in a discussion on the effects of technology on the media and entertainment industries, as well as on consumers." Hope so, because this interview takes place over a free breakfast at the Bryant Park Grill — free, anyway, for the correspondent who gets Valleywag's invitation.
  • HP ex-chief Carly Fiorina hits the 92nd Street Y this Sunday to discuss her new memoir. Questions not to ask: "You spend time in both Silicon Valley and D.C. Which populace is uglier?" [92nd Y]
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Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:15:00 PDT Nick Douglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=206617&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Remainders: It doesn't help that the ads sell something called "iLoad" ]]>

  • New York-based e-mail startup Daily Candy gets a sweet deal: an investment valuing the company at $130 mil, which lets the company take down its "For Sale" sign and get back to the important business of making urban women feel inadequately shoed. [Gawker, link being fixed]
  • So some big-city bloggers had a party for Six Apart's new Vox blogging service, right? And some guys sat in a hot tub on the roof? And probably someone called this the bubble? Hon, it's not a bubble until what's in the hot tub can get you drunk. Anyway, click through for topless shots of Gawker Media managing editor Lockhart Steele. [Teen Drama]
  • Damn it, Gawker's stealing all the tech news today. As our catty sister notes, the New York Times is proud to name-drop Dodgeball.com founder Dennis Crowley, the man responsible for every New Yorker and San Franciscan constantly updating their friends on how drunk they're about to get. [Gawker]
  • Pictured: The Times also uses a photo illustration to remind everyone of those wild days of free drink coasters for all. [NYT]
  • Mooching off the "Get a Mac" commercials: You can make a clever parody or a creepy knock-off ad. (Please make the parody.) [iLoad]
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Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:36:18 PDT Nick Douglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=186355&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Over the weekend: Apple emergency 24-hour depot opened ]]> Here's what happened this weekend, while you were out in San Fran, running Bay to Breakers:

  • Yahoo didn't buy Technorati. Sorry, Flipmeat Trifecta players. [ZDNet]
  • The SF Chronicle confirmed that hey, some of these Valley guys are pulling in rather a lot of money. [SF Chron]
  • A woman called Steve Jobs hot. She just wanted him for his big...cube. [Wired News]
  • Someone on Curbed noticed the new Apple New York store looks a lot like the Louvre. (Except if the Louvre burned, there'd be less looting.) [Curbed]
  • And among the many videos of the Apple store opening, this is the juiciest — with the best Steve cameo. [YouTube]

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Mon, 22 May 2006 10:37:22 PDT Nick Douglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=175435&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ In a few hours, Apple opens <i>forever</i> ]]>

What pleasures await in this pure palace of Apple? This morning, join us to watch Consumerist's coverage of the new 24-hour store in NYC.

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Fri, 19 May 2006 01:21:16 PDT Nick Douglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=174917&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Lazy news: New York Magazine finds the Internet again ]]> Two Internet users - ValleywagReaders of the New York Magazine (ones who don't read Slate, the New York Times Styles, Forbes, the San Francisco Chronicle, or Wired) now know there's a boom on. Writer Kurt Andersen spends three pages (well, the last page is two lines, like the last page of a dictated-length term paper) telling the same story as the other papers, but with the cluelessness with which the New York media glitterati always approach the Internet. It's like seeing USA Today redo a trend piece, but without the humility. So spare yourself the read and use the Valleywag Lazy News Edition.

  • Title: The Way We Boom Now
  • Subtitle: What this age of Internet euphoria looks like to those of us who were in the game last time around. For one, bubbles aren't completely bad.
  • The Internet industry is a bubble again. But it's not a bubble. But it is a bubble...or is it? No. Yes.
  • Poster children: Fred Wilson, the blogging VC who fed the first bubble, now chastising the fools who fed the first bubble; MySpace, YouTube, and DailyCandy (sing with me: one of these things is not like the others...); bloggers and podcasters
  • Illustration: (Pictured) The backs of two chic Net users, one in 1998 and one in 2006. Message unclear.
  • Lead: Kurt Andersen and his friends are prescient but too dumb to notice.
  • Bold names: John Battelle, dot-com journalist survivor of Boom 1 and founder of blog ad network Federated Media Publishing; Walter Isaacson, Internet czar of Time Warner in the 90s; Michael Hirschorn, Andersen's former business partner at Inside; Fred Wilson, "rockstar" VC; Jerry Colonna, Fred's co-founder at VC firm Flatiron; Dany Levy, founder of DailyCandy (more on her later today); Michael Wolff, Burn Rate burnout
  • Lesson 1: A $100-million dollar valuation for a shopping newsletter is "really not crazy" if Kurt Andersen decides it's not. This is the magic logic of trend stories.
  • Lesson 2: If Valleywag dedicates 250 words to a tip, it's worth one sentence to a real paper.
  • Lesson 3: Burn Rate author Michael Wolff sucks at forecasting. Also, he calls the Internet "the business."
  • Best line: "I'm a rock star again." — Fred Wilson
  • Non sequitur: The whole slant is "We've learned our lesson" — but Fred's quoted saying half the boom participants weren't around for the 90s bubble. Where'd they learn this lesson, in grade school?
  • WTF: "To call a Web business a 'dot-com' in 2006 would be the equivalent of calling a black person 'colored.'" I tried to verify this, but there weren't any black people around.

The Way We Boom Now [New York Magazine]
Earlier Lazy News: Web 2.0 has a local address [Valleywag]

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Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:44:15 PDT ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=169178&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ WWW Dodgeball glamour shots ]]> Oh, they badass. Matt Spangler from thehappycorp sends photos from the WWW Dodgeball Tournament (if you can dodge a VC takeover, you can dodge a ball), mercifully leaving out the action shots.

Above: Team Flavorpill. The Flav gang sign is either two scrunched up hands or a pair of pinched nipples.
Below: Team thehappycorp. I am not sure what's up with the reptile claw.

another dodgeball team

Earlier: Grab life by the ball: WWW Dodgeball Invitational [Valleywag]

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Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:49:42 PDT ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=166608&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Google hottie bats for the other team ]]> Lauren Levin, NYC\'s Google Hottie - ValleywagThe co-author of the hot new lez-lit handbook, Same Sex in the City: So Your Prince Charming Is Really a Cinderella? Yeah, she works for Google. Gawker alum Choire Sicha says Lauren Levin's bio calls her a "top ad-sales junior executive at Google," and I'll take his word for it. (The bio's nowhere to be found on the web. It must be on paper somewhere.)

She never made it into the tournament (I blame Google New York's slow PR team), but I'd like to officially recognize Lauren as an all-around Google Hottie — for her style, her Stones shirt, and her ability to monetize lesbianism (she got the book deal mere months after coming out! Such talent! Such connections in the publishing world!).

The Cockpit: Hot Lesbian Sexy Action [NYO Daily Transom]

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Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:38:18 PDT ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=165287&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan wed: Most Flickr'd ceremony ever ]]> meg-jason.jpgThe blogging power couple that conquered Metafilter (and some rag called the New Yorker) makes it official. Ex-SFers Jason Kottke and Meg Hourihan say "I do" tomorrow in NYC.

In lieu of wedding gifts, the couple suggests charitable donations. A good idea — unless you want to buy them a $160 saucepan.

[Update: wedding page removed.]

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Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:34:43 PST ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=162941&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ The new New York bubble ]]> Silicon Alley's feature coverage in this week's NYT Styles section (because it's too fun for the tech section) shows that the Alley is just like the Valley again — with all the requisite bubble signs:

Daily Candy wins "Most jackass self-evaluation" for its $100 million asking price. When the Times calls a 10-times-earnings sale price "a conservative multiple by technology industry standards," someone is either still living in the 90s or already privy to some pretty high-rolling deals.
Everyone's "learning from their mistakes" and "not getting caught in the hype" — and "seeing 37% growth a year."
Uses of "Mr.": 16. Uses of "Ms.": 1.

Alive and Well in Silicon Alley [NYT]

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Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:51:50 PST ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=160185&view=rss&microfeed=true
<![CDATA[ Silicon Alley is edgy ]]> webmanhattan.jpgSilicon Alley is back, decided the New York Times, and it's edgy. To prove it, the Times opens with the story of a dot-com poetry slam where one schlub fails to impress:

Mr. Robertson faced a barrage of withering questions and eventually slunk offstage to mocking laughter from the audience.

When New Yorkers do tech meetups, they do 'em hardcore.

Alive and Well in Silicon Alley [NYT]

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Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:35:19 PST ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=160176&view=rss&microfeed=true