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details, details
Correct out-of-touch New York style rag's Internet gossip!
It's complicated. God, is it ever. The same October Details story that follows around New York's "Internet playboys" and their bicoastal hangers-on runs with this chart of who dated, funded, or hated in this overdocumented side of the Web scene. So sweet to know we're not the only ones keeping a scorecard, but one of its subjects, Caroline McCarthy, claims there's inaccuracies! Let's do Details and the kids recently fanning their fameballs from the coverage a favor and fix it up then. Ready? Let loose in the comments with your errata.
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Comment by Duncan: Arrington dated Julia Allison? really? since when did a casual fuck count as dating? 2 Responses | Other threads
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publicity stunts
Five Annoying Online Publicity Stunts
Michael Ian Black, comedian and VH1's go-to analyst of pop culture, has started an online feud with testosterone and beer-fueled guy blogger Tucker Max. Black challenged Tucker to a fight, Tucker accepted, and now they are both talking trash in a way advantageous to the promotion of Black's new book. This would all be cuter if Black didn't just try to start another online feud with David Sedaris, to promote the same book. These online publicity stunts are incredibly difficult to pull off without being annoying; below, a jaded look back at five that sucked the big one: More »
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wantrepreneurs
Julia Allison: HTML tutor to the nonstars
It's been just a little over a year since Julia Allison touched down in Silicon Valley, strutting past the hand-stampers at an arts fundraiser and informing anyone who would listen that she was looking for a boyfriend to help her with her website. It hasn't exactly paid off. The so-soft-it-hurts launch of her new startup, Nonsociety.com, is a technical tour de farce. The rumored-to-death project wraps glamour shots of Allison and friends like comrade Meghan Asha Parikh, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's ex-girlfriend, around sideways-scrolling feeds ("lifestreams"!) of their Tumblr blogs. Meghan, a former hedge-fund analyst, shows off her tech creds here. She's the only one who seems to have a functioning "lifestream," even on launch day. Allison's and a handbag-designing ladyfriend's came up 404. We salvaged the launch video, in case the whole thing collapses: More » -
not afraid to be servicey
How To Not Storm Off the Internet in a Huff
Yesterday, a grown man threw a tantrum and stormed off the internet. Because we bullied him. It wasn't pretty. Are we proud? Well, it's a living. We spent today mulling over some wise advice we received. And, of course, it's true. We should be constructive! In the spirit of friendship, we'll explain how to survive the Internet without letting the bastards get you down. Heed our words, and you'll never have to shut down another blog. Or quit a message board, or ban yourself from a comments section. Never again will you hear the sirens of the waaaahmbulance.
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By PareeneComment by toastycakes: @Clarence Rosario: Noooooo! Their iphones just don't take screenshots yet. more » | Other threads
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wantrepreneurs
Why are Jakob Lodwick and Charles Forman in Esquire?
We don't own a smoking jacket or get manicures, so were unaware that New York wantrepreneurs Charles Forman of Iminlikewithyou and fired Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick appear in the latest issue of Esquire until Forman pointed it out to us this morning. "Good to see you yesterday," Forman managed to say before asking: "Are you going to put my Esquire thing on Valleywag?" Fine. But only because it gives us a chance to examine what, exactly fellow wantrepreneur Julia Allison sees in him. Yes, the pair are dating. (Though we hear she sometimes forgets his name when introducing him at parties.) More »
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Flaming Balls of Douche
Jakob Lodwick is Sick of Your Infernal Minimum Wage
Why all the poverty in America? Vimeo-founding Julia Allison-ex and tedious fameball douche Jakob Lodwick thinks it's because all those poor, poor corporations are forced to pay a minimum wage that many prospective workers are simply not qualified for. In a rhetorical interview with himself (Oh, what a device!) Lodwick sure does make some convincing arguments.
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casting call
Julia Allison, The Movie
It's either a belated April Fool's joke or a stroke of genius: College Humor-ists Sam Reich and Ricky Van Veen have just completed a script called "Jakob and Julia," at least according to a post on Reich's Tumblr. If you look closely at the photo of the script (reproduced after the jump), you can see it is addressed to "__???____ Agency" at a Beverly Hills, California zip code. This implies a screenplay (as opposed to a Broadway musical) about, of course, the doomed relationship between Star editor-at-large Julia Allison and Vimeo co-founder Jakob Lodwick. This raises so many questions: Real or fake? Movie or TV pilot? And, most critically, which Hollywood stars should play Julia and Jakob? Post your answers in the comments. After the jump, videographer Loren Feldman's December 2007 dramatization of the Julia-Jakob relationship. UPDATE: Plus a short email from Ricky Van Veen. Sounds like a joke. More » -
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Did You Think There'd Be No JA Today?
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Mark Zuckerberg In The Presence
Admit it: Julia Allison is irrepressible. The Star magazine talking head abandoned her personal blog because it was ruining her life; and broke up with her webtard boyfriend, Jakob Lodwick, because he slept with her "adopted" little sister and was crushed commercially by Youtube. But she's merely moved up the internet food chain. On photo sharing service Flickr, Allison shows her act is still fresh outside New York. Here, at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, she pushes out her chest into friending distance of the alpha geek of the moment, Mark Zuckerberg. Coincidentally, the Facebook founder was recently named by Forbes as the world's youngest billionaire.
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By Nick DentonComment by Calraigh: @Ummwhat: O.k this is actually starting to sound like a really good joke.'SOOOO Julia Allison,Mark Zuckerberg and a member of... more » | Other threads
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geek love
It's no use, Kevin — Julia knows you have to come down eventually
A tipster sends us this shot of Digg founder Kevin Rose clambering up a palm tree during the Future of Web Apps conference. You know, the one in Miami, where quasi-professional geek paramour Julia Allison drank his milkshake. Allison is beautiful, and if bright lights are your thing, plausibly charming. So why would Kevin flee? Maybe like Allison's last beau, he doesn't want to shell out for a MacBook Air, either. Leaked emails on that whole mess, below. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by ellagood: @KarenUhOh: you think i wanted her to know? haha. nope. more » | Other threads
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the social network
Manhattan Media Clusterfuck
Who needs Gossip Girl? Manhattan's real-life dramas are so much more intricate, petty, and intertwined. Publicity whore Julia used to date Jake, Barry's former toyboy, who was bipolar, which might explain why he dated jailbait Leven, who was friends with Britney's younger sister, who's pregnant. Leven now sees Hud, though he once shared a bed with perfume promoter Alan, who's married (to a man!); Hud looks increasingly like his former boss, Lloyd, who introduced him to Julia when the dating columnist and TV commentator moved to New York. Bad move: Julia published a photo of him in a red scarf, looking Lloyd-like, and now Hud's pissed: he yelled at her at the Beatrice, even though pretty-boy Fabian and Chloë were there. (Wasn't she in some movies?) Sooo embarrassing. But not as embarrassing as Julia totally stealing Chloë's red dress (not nearly as nice as the ones designed by Barry's beard, Diane) for Valentine's Day. Or when Emily, Julia's new best friend, hinted that Josh was a premature ejaculator; he certainly got revenge. CLICK FOR CHART »
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By Nick DentonComment by VoxPopuli: So the universe really does revolve around JA? more » | Other threads
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stardom
'Little Sister' Steals Boyfriend, Then Limelight
First Leven Rambin, the 17-year-old actress from the daytime soap, All My Children, hooks up with Julia Allison's boyfriend, the magnetic but possibly bipolar Jakob Lodwick. And Allison, Star Magazine's designated talking head on subjects such as premature celebrity death, had regarded Leven as her "adopted little sister". What could be possibly be more cruel than that? Blonde Leven (right) was much photographed at last night's premiere party for doomed TV show, Lipstick Jungle. (One pap agency reckons she's the next in a line for stardom, and degradation, behind Britney, Paris and Lindsay.) Paparazzi? Call Julia Allison! The attention-seeking former dating columnist, seen here on the left, would have been there in a flash. Stealing her boyfriend? Forgiven. Now let's pout for the cameras in an incestuolesbian pose. Except, as several party-goers noticed, Allison was out of the frame. Seems her former protege's publicist kept them apart. Association with Allison, after the hookup triangle became public, is now bad for Leven's image.
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By Nick DentonComment by Unfun: Everyone check out her blog, she had a good date and she's already over JL! I'm so relieved! Also, I... more » | Other threads
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bloggers
Jakob Lodwick claims he'll behave like a normal human being. Right.
Wacky entrepreneur-turned-egoblogger Jakob Lodwick has vowed that from here onward, he'll reveal "less, not more" about his life online. A wise move that would prevent him from, say, deleting entire blog entries as soon as they're reported on. Buried deep within his Normative nonexplainer is his new philosophy of revealing "a morsel" rather than his whole "lunch" because he's learned some sort of lesson. The real reason? Without Julia Allison, he's just not that interesting.
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jakob and julia
Guy without a job seeks to humiliate his ex
Fired Connected Ventures founder Jakob Lodwick thought it would take a whole 300 or so words to humiliate his ex-girlfriend, Star editor-at-large and Mossberg-esque technology evangelist Julia Allison. All this because Lodwick and Allison's relationship — friends prefer to characterize it as a postmodern art project — went awry. But Jake, there was no need to go over a 100 words. More »
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tumblr
Who made Tumblr's David Karp so famous?
"My bf is like, so famous," David Karp's girlfriend Amy notes on her blog. And it's increasingly true. Yesterday found Karp featured in the New York Post's gossip rag, Page Six magazine. Just a few days before that, the New York Observer asked, "Would You Take a Tumblr With This Man?" You'll never guess who's taking credit for all the attention. Here's a hint: She's Julia Allison. Oops, ruined that game. More »
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fame
What Jakob Wants
As a commenter here once pointed out, Star magazine TV pundit Julia Allison has learned the hard way that there's always someone younger and hotter. Apparently, there's always someone more famous, too. Fameball ex-boyfriend and "celebrity" geek Jakob Lodwick has announced plans to befriend young Hollywood, starting with Scarlett Johansson. Better a stepping stone than not a stone at all, Jules. -
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Where'd you go over the holidays?
Cabo, it's supposed to be the West Coast's Mexico. But here's photographic evidence that Silicon Alley entrepreneurs (and B.J. Novak from "The Office," back left) like to play in the Pacific, too. More » -
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All My Girlfriends
When Julia Allison, the Star Magazine talking head, explained her breakup with Jakob Lodwick, she blamed the charismatic uber-geek's hookup with one of her "close friends". One assumed Julia usually describes friends as close, so that didn't narrow down the field. But the former dating columnist wasn't exaggerating. We'd read their public breakup, a smaller Manhattan version of the tabloid-selling dissolution of Bennifer, was messy; and their downtown world incestuous. We only knew the half of it. [Warning: anyone who clicks on this story waives any right to complain about excessive coverage of Julia Allison.]
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blogodrama
Jakob Lodwick to Julia Allison today: "You know you won't get anyone better." [Tumblr]
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jakob lodwick
Former girlfriend says Vimeo founder fired for insubordination
Julia Allison, the ex-girlfriend of Jakob Lodwick, agreed to chat with her sadmirers on sister site Gawker. In the comments, she revealed the real reason why the attention-seeker was fired from his own company Vimeo:He was fired for "insubordination" — meaning, he didn't agree with the strategy IAC had for Vimeo, and he just ignored them when they told him to do things. He thinks of himself as Howard Roark and IAC's middle management as one huge Peter Keating, so getting fired fit into that storyline quite nicely. I think he saw it as almost heroic.
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By Tim FaulknerComment by Valleygrrl: totally tacky of the ex to talk. But yes, you can't sell out then fight the people who paid you.... more » | Other threads
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jakob lodwick
Lodwick's latest project is homeless humor
Amateur attention seeker and entrepreneur Jakob Lodwick may be releasing a new project soon with David Karp, the creator of blogging tool Tumblr. Lodwick recently cut ties with both his beau, Julia Allison, and Connected Ventures, the startup he founded, now controlled by IAC and best known for Vimeo and College Humor. Without Barry Diller's backing or Allison's cleavage, how will the pasty, shirtless hipster generate the buzz he's grown to expect but rarely deserves? By mocking the homeless. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by jim_rock: @beng you should whois "get a fucking life" more » | Other threads
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fameballin'
Jakob Lodwick Sure Didn't Stay Single For Long
Say what you will about fired Vimeo person and College Humor millionaire-boy Jakob Lodwick: He has strategies for staying in the limelight, even after his highly self-publicized breakup and co-blog dissolution with Star editor-at-large Julia Allison. Such as: Appearing half (or possibly fully!) nude on some other girl's Tumblelog!
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By Emily GouldComment by Tiraspol Groom: @Hot Foot: No. That girl is really cute. And she's German, which means she has a sense of humor. more » | Other threads
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internet famous
Get your degree in JakobandJuliaology
According to rough stats from Compete, Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick and professional geek groper Julia Allison's joint blog, JakobandJulia.com, saw nearly 14,000 unique visitors in November. We're not privy to the algorithm, but our guess is that might be enough get the pair an A in Jamie WIlkinson's "Internet Famous" class at the Parsons design school in New York City. More »
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Comment by raincoaster: 14,000 uniques a month is famous? God, if that's true I'm Britney Fucking Spears. more » | Other threads
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jakobandjulia.com
Relive the disgusted voyeurism of Jakob and Julia with the new John and Jen
Another startup boy and his girlfriend have started a Tumblr blog to overchronicle their relationship. Shortly after Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick and TV personality Julia Allison broke up and ended their blog Jakob and Julia, John Shankman (an employee of the Federated Media online ad agency) started the semi-anonymous JohnandJen.net. More » -
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New low for guy who can't buy a date: rejected by Julia Allison
Silicon Alley meetup impresario Brett Petersel, roundly mocked here and elsewhere for offering to pay anyone $25 to set him up on a date, has had a taste of fame and can't get enough. He's even planning to start a business based on the "buzz." Problem is, Petersel isn't as good at leveraging his newfound microcelebrity as he is hosting meetups for Silicon Alley wantrepreneurs and their VC patrons. His latest blunder? More »
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the internet sucks
Why Is There No Good Gossip Anymore?
"Now that J&J.com is over, did we learn anything from the experiment?" asks College Humor founder and deep thinker Ricky Van Veen, referring to the recent demise of Ricky's buddy Jakob Lodwick and Star Editor at Large Julia Allison's website and relationship. "Yes — that the gossip industry works on a model that can be disrupted. The gossip industry is built on second hand information, information embargoes, secret sources, tips, etc. But what if the people who are being gossiped about bypass that inaccurate mechanism and just make the information public in real time? ... That kind of universal transparency would put Page Six out of business." Right, if Lindsay Lohan was like "It's 10 on Sunday, I got a manicure today, I just relapsed and snorted a fistful of coke" at lindsaylohan.blogspot.com, Page Six would have nothing to write about. Ricky is so incredibly off-base. Except maybe, in a twisted way, he's also partly right? More » -
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Jakob Lodwick reclaims soul, earns girlfriend's scorn
Sorry people, show's over. Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick has pulled the plug on JakobandJulia.com, his joint venture with his girlfriend, Star editor-at-large, and geekboy aficionado Julia Allison. "My interest in creating fuel for the gossip sites has dried up," Lodwick writes on the blog. "I don't enjoy the attention anymore." We'll hold you to that, Mr. Lodwick. Allison, however, doesn't seem like she's going to hold you much at all anymore, judging by the following response. More »
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Comment by Tator Tot: GREGORSAMSA1977, so your solution for not having a job is spend lots of money on expensive booze? Brilliant! Fucking... more » | Other threads
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breakups
The End Of Jakob And Julia
Vimeo founder and recent firee Jakob Lodwick and his girlfriend, Star Editor at Large Julia Allison, have decided to end their shared website venture. "I don't enjoy the attention anymore. Don't misunderstand that: I love attention when it is earned. I love celebrity that sits atop compelling achievement," Jakob writes. Julia pointed out that Jakob refused to come with her to a meeting with Sequoia Capital, "one of—if not THE—biggest venture capital firms in Silicon Valley." Then she pointed out that "This was YOUR idea in the first place." She wrote: "I think it's really sad. I think you're really sad." She was addressing Jakob, but she might as well have been talking to you, or to me.
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By Emily GouldComment by CopyofBlueboy: She makes me want to rip out my eyeballs and stick them up my own arse. more » | Other threads
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Comment by mandarin: Wanna bet he's going to try something to get him in the gossip blogs again soon? more » | Other threads
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By Emily GouldComment by Trackback: Julia for Beginners by Alex Carnevale and Rebecca Wiener As most everyone knows by now, the unholy union of Julia... more » | Other threads
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vimeo
Did Julia Allison's boobs get Jakob Lodwick fired?
Jakob Lodwick, the Vimeo founder allegedly fired today from the IAC-controlled online-video site loves to post racy photos of himself and his love, notorious New York nobody and Star editor-at-large Julia Allison. That fact can't have been lost on his corporate overseers, which makes commenter brigamortis's theory — that he'd been fired for posting a mildly salacious photo of Allison to his personal blog — seem ridiculous on its face. Still, Lodwick took the photo in question off his blog, a move which raises suspicions. We obtained the photo, above. Could Allison's knockers really have gotten Lodwick canned?
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By Owen ThomasComment by Fidel on the Roof: " BY SAMPLE032 AT 11/30/07 08:07 PM I'm no expert, but is that a push-up bra? " Yup. Overrated and... more » | Other threads
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jakob lodwick
"Twentysomething boy millionaire" explains how Web works to "younger person"
Jakob Lodwick took a moment away from running the video site he founded, Vimeo, to blog some of the advice he'd been giving a "younger person named Chris about web development." Younger? This from a guy Wallstrip's Lindsay Campbell described as "just a normal, twentysomething boy millionaire." Share with us, oh wise and aged one, your precious pearls. No, not those. Eww. Save those for Julia Allison. Your pearls of wisdom, Jakob. More »
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Comment by The_Age_of_Plastic: All net worth numbers where the only source is the "mill/billionaire" should be divided by 3. Thus, Mr. Lodwick is... more » | Other threads
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thanksgiving
A Gawker Thanksgiving
Every year Gawker commenter and ad sales guy (and the best argument for abolishing the divide between editorial and advertising) LolCait has a super special Thanksgiving in his mind. There all of his and your favorite characters meet and dreams come true. This year Laurel Touby hosts.
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By Joshua SteinComment by PimpMyCouch: I am far too late to this party, but this is top-notch. LOLCait, any way you could also do this... more » | Other threads
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fameballs
Jakob Lodwick And Julia Allison's Joint Venture
Hot on the heels of the news that Patrick "NYGirlOfMyDreams" Moberg is in talks to sell movie rights to the story of his whirlwind fake romance with BlackBook intern Camille Hayton, the original most annoying couple-brand of the Internet has upped the ante. Yes: Vimeo/College Humor moneyman Jakob Lodwick and Star Editor at Large Julia Allison have made of their hearts one heart and of their websites, one website. More »
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self-promotion
Avert your eyes, it's JakobandJulia.com
Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick and notorious New York nobody Julia Allison now plan to more efficiently whore their relationship in a joint blog venture. Consider it the Hulu of self-promotion. If only you people would stop paying attention, this could all just go away. Sure, Lodwick's Vimeo, an online video-sharing site, is so pretty that rumor has it MySpace wants to poach its designer. But that doesn't explain why you're transfixed by the man himself, or his geek-seeking missile of a girlfriend. You people need to stop. In fact, don't read any further. Look away from the following image of Jakob and Julia, sprawled on the beach. It's for your own good. More »
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tumblr
Blame the blogger, not the blog
Tumblr, the cute blogging tool that recently received $750,000 in funding, has been touted as enabling unique habits not possible with other blogs. Habits that include boring one's readers more frequently throughout the day. Now Ricky Van Veen, editor of CollegeHumor, is blaming Tumblr for the same thing. Van Veen thinks Tumblr causes bloggers to post too often. He is frustrated that his friends are posting inanities not worth reading. And yet he finds himself obsessively following these trite microposts. According to Van Veen, Tumblr is the problem. More »
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By Tim FaulknerComment by beng: After I saw ricky's post I sent him an email explaining tumblr as I saw it. I guess I convinced... more » | Other threads
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geeks gone wild
Reddit throws NYC drinkfest, but everyone's thirsting for Julia
EAST VILLAGE, NEW YORK — Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, who sold social-news website Reddit a year ago to the publisher of Wired, brought Reddit's beer-laden world tour to New York last night. And, on the promise of an open bar from 7 till last call, the people showed. Among the crowd a pair of Condé Nast Newhouses and a whole mess of Silicon Alley's scruffiest. What'd I learn? Some tidbits such as that Huffman doesn't always flush and that at Reddit, Ohanian just draws the aliens. But mainly we learned that the people wanted to know: Would Jakulia show? More »
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search
"Golden Nasty" and other queries you don't want to share
Remember Hakia? It's the here-today, likely-gone-tomorrow search engine which allows users to meet other users searching for the same topic. A frightening feature, to be sure. But it'd be worse if Hakia members actually had to meet each other in person. Starting with the obvious, here is a list of queries whose searchers you don't want to meet. (Or maybe you do. Pervert.) More » -
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