December 10, 2010 – Yeah, I'm the fat guy at 0:29. For the record, I've lost 83 pounds since this was filmed. Oh well! Nothing like having a big old "before" picture posted on YouTube to keep you honest. [Jalopnik]
Valleywag: An Instruction Manual
May 15, 2009 – Dear Ryan: As I head to NBC to run its Bay Area site, I'm leaving you one Silicon Valley gossip blog, used but in good condition. A few thoughts on how to keep it that way. I still remember the day I called you up and tried to recruit you to Valleywag — More »
The Very Worst of Twitterati
May 15, 2009 – Day in, day out, as I've collected tweets from the media elite in our daily Twitterati, readers keep asking: Is this the best you can do? A fundamental misunderstanding: More »
How Valleywag Got MySpace to Drop Its Sony Ban
May 14, 2009 – Sony Pictures employees can now waste their time on MySpace again, thanks to Valleywag. (You're welcome.) Here's the tale, from inside Sony's Internet operations, of how our story got the ban lifted. According to our tipster, who works for one of Sony's Internet service providers, MySpace's... More »
The Twitterati Refuse to Sell a Horse for an Aeron Chair
May 14, 2009 – These tweets are made for venting. Joanna Pearlstein, Susan Orlean, Jim Louderback, and other media twits found plenty to complain about on Twitter: Washington Post dork Chris Cillizza admitted it. CNET Newser Caroline McCarthy did not have to see a man about a horse. Revision3 CEO Jim... More »
Happy Birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! Welcome to the Rest of Your Life
May 14, 2009 – What do you get the social-networking mogul who has everything? Click to see Valleywag's gift to the 25-year-old blunderkind CEO of Facebook! Yes, Valleywag has gotten Zuck an office befitting Facebook's dwindling cool: More »
Sony Moviemakers Banned from MySpace
May 14, 2009 – A tipster tells us that when Sony employees in L.A. try to log onto MySpace, "it directs you to google.com." Bizarrely, Sony's IT staff is saying it's MySpace's fault. Our tipster speculates: More »
Google Planning to Rob Bloggers to Pay New York Times
May 14, 2009 – Give the newspaper bosses this much: In their desperation to fix their dying businesses, they are going after logical targets. Google's rise has exactly nothing to do with their fall — More »
Why #googlefail Is Really a #twitterfail
May 14, 2009 – An hour-long outage of some Google services this morning has turned into a full-fledged Twitter storm. What this really shows is a failure of Twitter to be meaningful and relevant to anything but Twitter. Since it runs on fallible computers programmed by fallible humans, Google has gone down... More »
Peter Thiel’s Richer Than You, But Not as Rich as He’d Like You to Think
May 14, 2009 – It's one of many casually accepted, unchecked assumptions in Silicon Valley: Peter Thiel, the cofounder of PayPal and Facebook investor, is a billionaire, right? More »
Parking-Lot Typo Roils Apple Campus
May 13, 2009 – Did contractors pave imperfection into Apple's parking-lot paradise? A controversial photo showing a misspelled traffic warning sent one employee out on the asphalt to disprove yesterday's report of a chip in Steve Jobs's flawless facade. The photo you have on your site is fake. More »
The WSJ’s Twitterati Break All the Rules
May 13, 2009 – Oh, the rebellious minions of Rupert Murdoch! The Wall Street Journal has issued precious new rules for how its reporters and editors must conduct themselves on social networks. More »
Twitter Is Down! Twitter Is Down! What Will CNN’s Rick Sanchez Do?
May 13, 2009 – What does it take to move CNN newsman Rick Sanchez? Not, apparently, a plane crash which killed 50 people. Twitter going down for scheduled maintenance during Sanchez's show, though? More »
Craigslist Clarifies: It Wants to Be Paid to Get You Laid
May 13, 2009 – Here's the backwards result of the legal crusade against Craigslist: The site never used to make money from its "erotic services" ads. But the service tells Valleywag that it's now planning to profit from porn. Earlier today, several attorney generals announced that Craigslist would be ending their... More »
Finally, Twitter Learns When to Shut Up
May 13, 2009 – The Twittersphere is up in arms over a move the message-broadcasting service made to make its site a bit less noisy: You can no longer easily eavesdrop on conversations with strangers. More »
Craigslist Employees Will Be Paid to Read Sex Ads All Day
May 13, 2009 – Under pressure from state officials after a Boston medical student reportedly killed a masseuse he met on Craigslist, the classifieds site is cancelling its racy "Erotic Services" section with a new one reviewed by employees. Is Craigslist's new "adult" category just a name change? More »
Why Apple Is Doomed Without Steve Jobs
May 12, 2009 – What happens when Apple's famously perfectionist CEO takes a six-month medical leave? Everything at Apple goes to hell. Like the parking lots. Feel better soon, Steve! A tipster just sent us what they say is a photo they snapped on their iPhone (but of course) at Apple's Cupertino headquarters in... More »
The Twitterati Stay Up All Night Cursing Their Honda
May 12, 2009 – Don't take an iPhone to a movie screening, don't Twitter when you should be making coffee, don't buy a 2002 Honda, and don't be Meghan McCain. This and more we learned from Twitter today! Time media critic James Poniewozik experienced intra-Time Warner corporate stupidity. Chicago Tribune... More »
If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
May 12, 2009 – Writers are getting mad as hell about digital versions of their books getting pirated online. Ursula K. Le Guin and Harlan Ellison will sue you. But we like horror mogul Stephen King's approach: More »
