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What's on Steve Jurvetson's desk
On the occasion of his 40th birthday, DFJ's Steve Jurvetson gives an annotated Flickr tour of his desk space. Not quite as detailed as the Kevin Rose version, but he's got Bill Clinton in the mix.
On the occasion of his 40th birthday, DFJ's Steve Jurvetson gives an annotated Flickr tour of his desk space. Not quite as detailed as the Kevin Rose version, but he's got Bill Clinton in the mix.
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Party Report: Girls in Tech @ Slide
MEGAN MCCARTHY — Once again, it's back to Slide for yet another meet and greet, though at least this time no one is (overtly) fishing for funding. It's a different order of fishing tonight, as this is "Girls in Tech," an evening created by three female consultants who hope to build buzz via a connected hen party of (ideally) successful and attractive women. No one would admit to riding the slide tonight. The organizers — PR vixen Laurie Anne Lassek, marketing guru Julia French, and Vlog Hot contestant Adriana Gascoigne — held court over a gaggle of Y chromosomes, for the first hour at least. Which I missed. (Thank you, traffic on Sand Hill Road.) Still, I managed to meet up with Natali Del Conte (yet another Vlog Hot contestant) and Kevin Burton of Tailrank. As is often the case, the formal party concept, hardly formal though it was, rapidly evolved/devolved into a night on the town, with all the attendant morning-after consequences. Despite escorting a visiting reporter from Der Spiegel, journalistic precepts were tossed to the wind, leaving us with little more of a party report than you're presently reading. Lane Hartwell did the usual stellar work on the photo gallery though, and you can enjoy a few samples after the jump. More »
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Party Report: Revision3 at Slide
MEGAN MCCARTHY — Last night marked a soiree at Slide for Revision3, the net TV net brought to you by the fine folks at Digg. Indie mag XLR8R has joined the outfit with XLR8R TV; mag founder Andrew Smith says the show covers "cutting-edge music and culture." (Also, the host of the show is named — no joke and completely coincidentally — Vivian Host.) Slide is a newish club partially owned by Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams (he was there, but left before I could be introduced). Slide's speakeasy theme perplexingly includes an actual slide patrons can use to enter the club; is this how it was done back in Prohibition? At least two people copped to using the slide last night. "It's a lot better in a speedo," said one. As are so many things. Full gallery of fotographic fun may be found here, courtesy of lenswoman Lane Hartwell. After the jump, our report and a sample of the visual entertainment. More »
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Stock slide not quite as bad as 9/11
Congratulations, men and women of Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund! You rang today's opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange, oblivious that you'd also be ringing in the worst slide in the exchange's value since September 17, 2001. You can blame China, sure. You've got that IPO to celebrate!
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Ruby Rippey-Tourk's dramatic blog past
A tipster wrote us this past weekend:I just saw Gavin Newsom and a blonde female companion stop by the Urth Cafe on Beverly Drive, in Beverly Hills, to grab a cup of coffee.Well, coffee's good for a man who doesn't know if he's an alcoholic, and the ladyfriend is likely an equal tonic for other reasons. Speaking of which, the accompanying photo is worth a laff. It's Engadget's Pete Rojas, in a high-school production of Woody Allen's Play It Again Sam. Draped over his lap is none other than Ruby Rippey, a.k.a. Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the aide's wife that Newsom had an affair with. Fullsize pic after the jump, scanned right from the veritable sophomore yearbook. More »
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Party Report: SF Beta at 111 Minna
MEGAN MCCARTHY — It's once more into the breach at 111 Minna, the same damn art gallery/bar that's hosted any number of Web 2.0 parties, for the latest incarnation of the SF Beta demo-drinkiefest. The same old crowd of gadflies mixed with a few new faces and marched right by the superfluous jazz trio in the front room, homing in on the back room with the demos and instantly-devoured hors d'ouvere platters. One surprise was the presence of an actual Pastafarian pirate, but he left before I had a chance to interrogate him. When SF Beta began in October, it was yet another startup-meets-investor snoregasm, with the detached hipsteresque twist of making the startups pitch their ideas in haiku. Thankfully, this practice has been discontinued, leaving the demos for those who want to play with them, while the rest of us remained more bar-focused. Enjoy the photo gallery crafted by the collar-throttling mastery of Lane Hartwell. Notes and select pics after the jump. More »
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Google China photo gallery
Google Blogoscoped has datamined a nice collection of pics depicting Google's searchworks in China. Usual assortment of infantilizing treats for the workers, plus the odd pic of Sergey Brin and the Google China boss, Kai-Fu Lee. Also includes actual documentary proof of Marissa Mayer putting ads above users.
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Jordan Mendelson parties down, hires publicist?
Snocap's Jordan Mendelson is quite serious regarding his duties as the Valley's new symbol of personal bacchanalia. Witness these pics of a private cocktail party held this past weekend, sent along by a Mendelson fan who claims not to be his publicist. Large, lurid editions of the photos after the jump. And because we can't resist, there you'll also find the accompanying "party report," which is one of the funniest things we've read this month. More »
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Flickr forum not a hotbed of consolidation discussion
Regarding Thomas Hawk getting referral traffic from a private Flickr forum discussing the possible Flickr-Yahoo Photos consolidation:the flickr staff rarely uses the central-admin backchannel. when they do, it is to coordinate the activities of running the "flickr central" group, a job that is mostly left to volunteers. ... that link was posted in the backchannel feb 12th. i checked the backchannel and to comment with the link currently has no comments from anyone, let alone flickr staff.Commenter Julian amplifies:
The post in question didn't even get replies until someone posted a link to your post, and even then, it's not exactly like we know anything you don't. ... As to Hawk getting "a lot of referral traffic" from us, I rather doubt it, seeing as we have a grand total of 30 members, many of which don't check the group that frequently.As they say, developing, though maybe not in that forum.
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Panic! At the Flickr Central
Thomas Hawk (CEO of Flickr competitor Zooomr) riffed on our prediction that Yahoo Photos would be terminated, with the possible coda of having its users and content ported to Flickr. Most of the reaction from Hawk and elsewhere focuses not on the demise of Yahoo Photos, but rather on the idea of a great unwashed mob of Yahoo Photos' casual snapshooters invading the pristine arty confines of Flickr. As a possible clue, Hawk tells us that his post on the issue is getting a lot of referral traffic from a private Flickr Central forum, where Flickr staff and a few admins talk shop. Know what's going on in there? Say so.
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CommunityNext Opening Night
MEGAN MCCARTHY — The CommunityNext conference opening night open bar at Blue Chalk Cafe was far more entertaining than most of the dry, posh networking events held in the Valley. Noah Kagan of Entrepreneur27 put together the conference to focus on "successful online communities and social networks" and, with conference topics including "How to monetize with ads and not piss off your audience" and "The Patent-Pending skinnyCorp Method for Creating Online Awesomeness and Other Cool Stuff", one would expect a fun-filled opening night. Photographer
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Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant?
Time to upgrade this from rumor to unannounced fact — that's our bet, anyway. "Consolidation" was the word seized upon most in Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse's "Peanut Butter Manifesto." And consolidating the duplicate services provided by post-acquisition Flickr and Yahoo Photos makes sense. Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield denied there would be any merging, but that doesn't rule out "consolidation" by way of elimination. For the whys and wherefores, read on. More »
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Eric Schmidt is the king
Amazing what you find on the ol' internets. Here we see Google CEO Eric Schmidt wearing a not entirely ironic king-hat this past Halloween, posing with a (presumably) fellow Googler who went the pornstar route. Apparently this crown thing is something of a trend in the Valley.
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Elon Musk back on Sequoia
After disappearing from the Sequoia homepage of fame, one-time Paypal CEO Elon Musk — see his take on his own backstory here — is back, with a new smiley portrait. Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, the mo' "real" founders of Paypal, are also still on the page of course. They're both wearing crowns as befits their royal status. A polite distance separates Thiel and Levchin from Musk in the gallery. One imagines a similar dynamic emerging at a cocktail party where all three are present.
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Gavin Newsom: I touch myself
So what's up with Gavin Newsom, the handsome SF mayor who was apparently such an unregenerate drunk that he slept with his campaign manager's wife? Though he's set to enter some kind of friendly rehab-like "helping," it looks like he's also going to pay his campaign manager's salary until the poor cuckold finds a new job (the manager, Alex Tourk, resigned after confronting Newsom with the affair on January 31). Newsom's staff tried to find a way to pay Tourk's salary with campaign funds, but it looks like the cash will have to come from the mayor's personal hot pocket. Since we started a trend (two = trend) of running pics of Newsom touching himself on the face, check after the jump for our fulfillment of readers' demands (two readers = demand) for a gallery of such photos. More »
Further pics from the 'Plex
Google Blogoscoped horks forth a passel of more photos from the Googleplex, mostly of happy little Googlers bouncing around the giant playland that is their workspace while playing with toys. Three cheers for infantilization.
Google Blogoscoped horks forth a passel of more photos from the Googleplex, mostly of happy little Googlers bouncing around the giant playland that is their workspace while playing with toys. Three cheers for infantilization.
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