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more about #valleywag more comments → The Sneak: Needs more kiddie slides. #google more » ninety_nine: Well, the Webvan offices in New York were a two bedroom apartment in a drab building on 6th Avenue. #google more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Aeron chairs, fooseball, disco ball, ping pong, cereal, candy; yep #google more » HenryLovesFonzie: I have to say it - we had a better snack selection at Yahoo! #google more » BadUncle: Razor scooters? Still? I thought infantilizing technology workers had gone away. On the plus side: snacks! #google more » Brad Brown: That'l teech em' not too steel are jobs! more » homoviper: The End of Poverty? #google more » HenryLovesFonzie: These are the same people who were shocked when they learned Britney Spears was lip-syncing. #twitter more » Magister: Yeah - I don't particularly want a President who tweets and if you were vulnerable enough to believe it was really him, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn,... more » BadUncle: Shocking. I'll never trust a celebrity endorsement again. #twitter more » drunkexpatwriter: Next you'll tell me that Carolyn Keene didn't write The Secret Of The Old Clock. #twitter more » Drunken Economist: ..and now she's on Vivek Wadhwa's camel: (Sarah Lacey spews Pro-India Anti-China piece while on Wadhwa's Camel) [mindtaker.blogspot.com] .. and writ... more » raincoaster: Then: Fuck me gently with a chainsaw Now: nudge me with your foot gently. Everything is less fun now. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto more » TheCaliDude: Countdown to when commenters start posting fake death notices to #tips in 5, 4, 3, 2... #twitter more » Drunken Economist: This has nothing to do with piracy, which all software companies have to cope with and include in their cost of doing business. This has EVERYTHING t... more » -
#cubicleculture
Google's New York Office Is a Glorious Catalog of Dot-Com Clichés
Techie office accoutrements like razor scooters and free food faced mass extinction at the end of the last dot-com boom nine years ago. Google brought them back in full force, judging from pictures of its New York office. More »
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#outsourcing
Indian Kids Work Cheap for Google
It's great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to schoolchildren. Less great: It gives the victor in India 1/20th of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest. More » -
#shutuptwitter
Barack Obama Has Better Things to Do Than Tweet
You would have been delusional to think that the president didn't use a ghostwriter to update his Twitter account, @BarackObama. Still, it's now been confirmed that he didn't write any of his 418 tweets. Geeks are scandalized. More » -
#rumors
Killing Them Softly: The ______ Is Dead Twitter Meme
If the New York Times' The Moment blog and its Twitter feed "hear" that Moz is dead, does it actually happen? Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston writes: "This inspired a lot of panicked e-mails to me late last night." Why? More » -
#facebook
Scam-Brokering CEO Dissed His 'Bullshit' Ethics Class
Mark Pincus recently cut off the scamsters who supply his company with revenue. But before he bowed to controversy, the Facebook games merchant was more cavalier about corporate morality, even griping about his "bullshit" Harvard ethics class and idiot classmates. More » -
#twitterati
Republican's Abortion Joke Positively Uproarious
A Bush-Cheney operative let loose a zinger about orgies and abortion; Kurt Andersen finally watched The Wire; and Neel Shah was discovered something unusual in Oprah's hold music. The Twitterati found some low-hanging fruit. More » -
#thewaywelivenow
Google Search Box Suggestions Allow Us to Peer into the Internet's Dark, Disturbing Id
There are things you don't tell your husband. There are things you don't tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google's search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its "suggestion" feature. More » -
#journalismism
David Pogue Gets Modest Title of 'Visionary'
David Pogue does not call himself a journalist; that much he made clear during the controversy over his positive New York Times pieces on Apple's buggy operating system and obfuscating CEO. So what is he, then? A "Visionary." (Updated) More » -
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#thefuture
Everything Bad About the Web Was Once Said About Television
This 1945 pamphlet on the "Future of Television" is awesome. But who would have thought we'd be having the same tired discussion 65 years later? The table of contents is a template for every contemporary new media debate: More » -
#mediawars
Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within "months." The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that's just its way of making search hugely profitable. More » -
#conspiracies
Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
Katie Couric made a list of the "most powerful" people in media for Forbes and they're all... Jews. Kidding, only six of 11 are Jews. The real power belongs to computer nerds. Couric mentioned zero old media people. More » -
#copyfight
Google Forgot to Google Before Naming Programming Language
It would seem Google failed to effectively use its flagship service before rolling out its much-ballyhooed new programming language "Go:" Another language already had that name, and a significant profile on Google's own servers. More » -
#facebook
Class Action Suit in the Works for Victims of Social Gaming Scams
Facebook and MySpace might finally pay the price for the big social gaming scandal: At least one law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action suit on behalf of duped users. More » -
#geeksgonewild
Naked Calendar Nerds Push Limits of Geek Chic
If a Googler can pose in Vogue and Glamour, and if Justin Timberlake's playing a Facebook exec, surely London tech geeks can strip off their clothes for a sexy calendar. It'll sell furiously. Or at least, uh, get tweeted furiously. More » -
#cubicleculture
Google's San Francisco Office Secrets Revealed by Farcical Lipdub
Lipdubs are the scourge of internet video, churned out by desperate would-be fameballers. But staff from Google's San Francisco office apparently can't resist making music videos, either. What workplace horrors made them turn to a sideline in Miley Cyrus impersonation? More »
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#thecinema
New Photos Reveal 'Mark Zuckerberg' Wore Nothing But Gray Hoodies
Collegiate Mark Zuckerberg just wore an endless series of gray hoodies, according to new photos a student sent us from the set of The Social Network. Hey, the young cyborg was starting Facebook, not a fashion house. More » -
#twitterati
'Rapist Killer' and Other Crazies Stalk Twitterati
Lev Grossman lost his whole novel when he changed flights; Rob Pegoraro carefully unfriended a touchy Facebook user; and a UK journalist discovered there are Twitter accounts worse than "rapist killer." The Twitterati battled a crazy world. More » -
#mysteries
Is Missing San Francisco Mayor Secretly Sobbing with 'Life Coach?'
How does the young mayor of a new-age left coast city cope with a major political setback? By disappearing for days on end with his all-important "life coach," as failed gubernatorial candidate Gavin Newsom is rumored to have done. More » -
#howwelivenow
Google's Kid-Friendly Balls
If Google shows your child its balls, the internet is safe to use. Pro tip! -
#wtf
People Begging Google to Be Their Stalker
Google said it can now keep a detailed list of everywhere you go, play your trips back like movies and generate "alerts" for unusual movements. Who wants this? The CIA? Nope: ordinary modern humans are asking to be tracked. Insane. More »
