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team party crash
Smiling Through the Mediaocalypse
Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday.
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Comment by Mount_Prion: I want to marry Rachel Sklar. Well, her breasts anyway. 7 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Get a Free Lunch from the MSM
Twitter is the ideal medium to express your own idiocy. Dan Abrams denounces the mainstream media which gave birth to his career, a Google-enriched entrepreneur eats its free lunch, and Alan Meckler discovers Twitter: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by kolacek: The only thing gayer than Twitter is an article about Twitter. [...and STFU, twaggots. I live in San Francisco and my... 2 Responses | Other threads
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hype
Even Foursquare's Hype is Recycled from Dodgeball
After Google bought Dodgeball from him and shut it down, New York entrepreneur Dennis Crowley knocked off his own idea to create Foursquare, a new friend-finding app. The coverage likewise feels familiar. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by FaceMelter: "...rapidly being installed on iPhones across the city..." Numbers please, because that is some bullshit. OK ... the beef: 1) This app already... 7 Responses | Other threads
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journalismism
Foursquare Founder Tells Two Tales About Filched Dodgeball Code
Too busy partying in Austin, Dennis Crowley never replied to our questions about whether Foursquare was built on code owned by Google. He's denied it to other press, but we hear he's telling buddies otherwise. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by GChin: "If only Fost had thought to factcheck that with, say, any of the South By Southwest attendees to whom Crowley... 3 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
New York Times Writer Learns about 'Internets' at SXSW
In the '90s, the Web cognoscenti joked about doing crack. But New York Times columnist David Carr actually did crack! Which might explain his befuddlement in this clip from the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by swagv: What's sadder is that most Web industry professionals at SXSW probably don't recognize that the term "internet" has a specific... 2 Responses | Other threads
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rants
South By Southwest Is a Pointless Party
Why does the tech world get a throwdown in Austin when the banks have had to cancel their bashes? The news out of South By Southwest shows that Web hipsters are every bit as bankrupt. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Lizawithazee: Heh, you can tell they're from outta town when they drink Lone Star. 12 Responses | Other threads
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scandal
Is the New Foursquare Too Much Like the Old Dodgeball for Google?
Even though Google killed Dodgeball, Dennis Crowley reassured the socially inept that they'd still be able to find their friends at bars with his newly launched Foursquare. One problem: it may not be his. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by TedSez: Four square itself is a game that involves strategy as much as physical agility, and I killed at it when... 4 Responses | Other threads
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startups
Dodgeball, Overhyped and Underused, Deserved to Die
Google has axed six services, from Google Video uploads to a shopping-catalog search. But none has sparked more outrage than the closure of Dodgeball.com. Dennis Crowley, the friend-locating service's twentysomething founder, is miffed. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by saythatscool: Can we please get rid of the word Microcelebrity? I'm not blaming Owen because many others use it here too. Being... 10 Responses | Other threads
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acquisitions
6 startups that fell into Google's "black hole"
Digg users should be glad merger talks with Google have cooled, writes Slate's Farhad Manjoo. Had Digg fallen into Marissa Mayer's frosting-laced clutches, the site would have probably become another startup lost in what Manjoo calls "the Google Black Hole." It happened to FeedBurner this week. And the RSS ad network, was just the latest, following Jaiku, JotSpot, Dodgeball, GrandCentral, and Measure Map. Their tales of doom in the Googleplex, below. More »
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Comment by OaklandTechie: Hmm, someone has been monkeying with yer stylesheet, in-line links aren't very findable. [bnoopy.typepad.com] more » | Other threads
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caption contest
Those Mormons might be on to something
Dodgeball founder and departed Googler Dennis Crowley celebrates his 32nd birthday by embracing his sister. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Yet another Valley Mashup" by jim_rock. (Photo from Dennis Crowley)
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By Jackson WestComment by Uncle-Sam's Littlle Helper: I'll cite Bash.org: what should I give sister for unzipping? Um. Ten bucks? no I mean like, WinZip? Muhahaha :)) more » | Other threads
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startups
Don't let Google get you, acquired founder says
In private moments, Dodgeball cofounder Dennis Crowley will tell any startup entrepreneur in New York asking: Avoid getting acquired by Google. "Sure, he's not upset about the $40 million and he's glad to be dating models," a source close to Crowley told me. "But he's not happy with Google." Not all Google-acquired founders are so bitter. Word is the FeedBurner guys love it at Google. But FeedBurner's best innovations are in advertising, not engineering. Some say the same goes for Google these days. (Photo by rosswerks)
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Comment by boomer_: @owen: your source is making stuff up or has a very loose definition of "facts". if you dont feel the need... more » | Other threads
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follow-up
An addendum to last week's story about the robbery at Dodgeball founder Dennis Crowley's new workplace. Turns out there were actually two transvestite prostitutes who broke into the office, and he has the security camera footage to prove it. [Teen Drama] -
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Someone broke into the offices of Area/Code, the startup where Dodgeball.com founder Dennis Crowley currently works (after bitterly leaving Google just three months ago). Taken were Crowley's laptop, a flatscreen monitor, and a digital camera. Left behind was the transvestite hooker still asleep on the office couch. [Teen Drama] -
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Aaaaand it's dead.
NICK DOUGLAS — [UPDATE: It's alive! Dodgeball is the Terry Schiavo of Web 2.0!] Sometimes a product just dies, horribly and suddenly, as if it were unlucky enough to be under a falling piano, stepping into an empty elevator shaft, getting smacked upside the head with a very large rock. It seems that's the fate of Dodgeball, the text-based find-your-friends-at-the-bar service that Google bought in 2005 and promptly abandoned. As of today, the front page is just a "502 server error" (a friend tells me that means the backend server, which actually handles page requests, is dead). More »
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By Nick DouglasComment by krucoff: @TheBigGapingAsshole: that literally dozens of Manhattan downtown barflies couldn't live without Once again, Denton shows he has no class and takes... more » | Other threads
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google
Dodgeball founder quits Google; will Google kill the service?
NICK DOUGLAS — Dennis Crowley announced Sunday night that he's left Google. (His friend Andrew Krucoff scooped him.) The Dodgeball founder said that the company had never given his team the resources they needed to maintain and expand the location-texting service. "The whole experience was incredibly frustrating," he wrote on a group blog. Crowley posted the same story on Flickr, where he also commented that he and co-Dodgeballer Alex Rainert left "regardless" of their Google stock (or options) vesting schedule. "Regardless"? Ha! Google bought Dodgeball 23 months ago. One would assume his contract made him stay two years to collect a stock or options bonus, and Crowley can't be dumb enough to walk away one month before payday. Assume he and Rainert got their money's worth out of these dreary two years — and they sure deserved it, having to sit back and watch startups Twitter and Jaiku take over the group-messaging field. The next question is, will Google shutter Dodgeball? (Photo: Dennis Crowley)
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By Nick DouglasComment by cv: LOL, okay, I see it now. It's four years and two months, not four years and four months. I don't... more » | Other threads
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i'm feeling hungry
Google's cafe selections
After the western attention, a little love for the east. Dodgeball founder and Google purchasee Dennis Crowley chronicles various delicacies from the Google NYC cafeteria. Sadly, this organic PB&J with M&Ms contains no meat. See also New York City tap water and lobster mac & cheese.
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By Chris MohneyComment by Pinny: Is that supposed to be better for you than non-organic PB&J sandwiches WITHOUT M&Ms? more » | Other threads
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nyc
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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