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BREAKING: Valleywag, Consumerist sites shuttered?

BREAKING: Valleywag, Consumerist sites shuttered?Say the lie often enoughRecession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and we haven't even had one yet. But, hey, it's an election year and a Republican is incumbent, so we'll use the term any darn way we please, especially if it gives cover for...

Tags: Consumerist, Valleywag

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

Seesmic layoffs and a new reality?

Valleywag's somewhat unkind depiction of the layoffs at Seesmic: Seesmic's newest feature: layoffs is but the latest in an emerging trend of Silicon Valley startups reigning in their spend. Over in Denmark, a remarkable account of failure has emerged. Earlier this week, I debunked some of the talk around ROI,...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Layoff, Social Media, Valleywag, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-16

FCC might hold second Comcast hearing at Stanford

ValleyWag is reporting that the FCC may hold a second hearing into Comcast's network management practices -- as payback for packing the room at Harvard earlier this week. The blog claims to know: The FCC will take no official action against Comcast over the held seats, but...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Stanford, ValleyWag, Federal Government, Network Administration, Networking, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Attn. Stanford students, Palo Alto street peeps: FCC Comcast Torrent-thwart hearing to Stanford?

Valleywag is hearing that a "do-over" of yesterday's net neutrality-overlayed FCC hearing about Comcast's thwarting of Torrent packets may be headed to the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto. I wonder how happy Comcash will be to face the citizenry's champion of...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Stanford, Palo Alto, Valleywag, Federal Government, Government, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-27

Valleywag latest example of cutting Creative Commons corners

Flickr makes it so easy to find photos, doesn't it? And if you're blogging for a commercial outlet like this one, or, say, Valleywag, it even makes it easy to find photos licensed for commercial use.Yesterday, Valleywag disregarded that when it copied and republished a noncommercially licensed Dan Farber...

Tags: Social networking, Licenses, Copyright, Blogging

Blog posts 2007-07-27

Mapping the social networking universe

Valleywag looks at how the planet is divided up among the major social networking services. It's the modern version of who owns the pipes, except it's who owns the hub of peoples' digital lives and manages the 'pipes' that serve the data of their personal networks.Larger version at ValleywagThe maps...

Tags: Web Technology, Social networking

Blog posts 2007-06-28

When is a startup not a startup?

Valleywag has tallied nominations see below for the hottest Silicon Valley startups from Linked In and Venture Beat solicitations, with Facebook leading the pack. If you look at the the companies mentioned, the term startup doesnt always come to mind. I think of startups as little companies with modest funding,...

Tags: Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-04-10

MuzzleWag

I finally figured out how to shut down Nick Douglas and Valleywag: I refused to say anything more in IM he posted the last thread this morning but only on the phone, and off the record. So I told him everything I'm going to do next and what I really...

Tags: Valleywag

Blog posts 2006-07-28

Memo to ValleyWag

Memo to ValleyWagWhoretrainThat was a site that eventually became a magazine.Capitalize Valleywag right, I'll spell Gillmor rightCompared to that guy, you're COHERENT.-- Nick, Valleywag, using Bugmenot

Tags: Valleywag

Discussion threads 2006-06-06

Additional Resources

Apple removed blood stains from Snow Leopard package

I love a conspiracy and this one was just too juicy to resist. Apparently Apple attempted to clean up the image of the snow leopard that's prominently featured on the Mac OS 10.6 product packaging and Web site so that it's a little more PG-rated according to...

Tags: Goat, Cat, Apple Inc., Picture, Apple Mac OS, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Will advances in the Mac OS tip the scales for BYOPC?

Yes indeedy... It's a good time to know how to support Macs.It's not too late guys... If you like your IT careers, it's a good time to pick up a Mac and start tinkering / learning... You UNIX guys should take to it like a fish to water (considering 10.5...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, operating system, Apple Inc., rev, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

News to know: Windows 7; Top student laptops; Facebook; Larry Page's commencement speech

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7? Larry Page's fine commencement speech. Andrew...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Microsoft Windows 7, Larry Page, Laptop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Google's future: Predictions for 2009

Google's future: Predictions for 2009so basically..so basically all good and gets better.. I guess that was easy..Google 2009!Alan Kay once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Indeed this is what Google is doing. Here's to a googlicious Google 2009! Cheers!or Google...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Advertising & Promotion, Web browsers, Operating systems, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-12-25

Yang: Layoffs 'very hard,' 'very necessary'

Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang on Wednesday confirmed the company's layoffs in the U.S. were underway and said the restructuring was "very hard, but they are also very necessary." Yahoo's job cuts, reportedly 1,500 or so, are essentially being broadcast live via Twitter, blogs like BoomTown, Silicon Alley...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Layoff, Yahoo! Inc., Workforce Management, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-10

Valleywag, Consumerist sites announce layoffs

A source close to Gawker Media informed me a moment ago that popular sites Consumerist, Valleywag and NSFW Fleshbot will may be shuttered will lose most of their editorial talent. "Nineteen jobs will be cut," my source says, with a formal announcement from Gawker Media coming later...

Tags: Layoff, Gawker Media, Site, Consumerist, Workforce Management, Team Management, Human Resources, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-03

Rumor Mill: Some juice on the new MBP (updated)

According to what I hear the picture that surfaced briefly on French blog Nowhere Else (above, Tip: ValleyWag) isn't the new MacBook Pro. What's with the weird OS X dock that's Photoshopped onto the trackpad and the pixelized tapered edge? Is it supposed to be...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., MBP, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-26

Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld ads

Microsoft pressed SHIFT-DEL on epic fail Gates/Seinfeld adsTwo old farts pushing an outdated OS, that's a winner...I can't believe Microsoft thought this was a good marketing strategy by bringing one old comedian and one old nerd to brand to an upcoming generation of computer users and buyers. These commercials were...

Tags: Microsoft AD, Microsoft Corp., advertisement, Gates/Seinfeld, Gates/Seinfeld ad, Shift-Del

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Microsoft pulls the plug on Gates-Seinfeld ads; Campaign's next phase set to begin

Microsoft is pulling the plug on the team of Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates as the TV spokesmen trying to reinvent the image of Windows. The official word from Redmond is that the company had always planned to pull the plug on the two when the $300 million ad campaign...

Tags: Advertisement, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., NYT, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-09-17

News to know: Google; Green IT; Oracle; Apple

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: To Boldly Go Where No Search Engine Has Gone Before Beet.TV: Breaking News: Satellite to Gather Exclusive Images for Google Earth Blasts off in California...Larry...

Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Dana Blankenhorn, Green IT, Apple Inc., Video, Microsoft Corp., Google Chrome, Corporate Communications, Rootkits, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Game Players, Marketing, Security, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-08

The lighter side of Bill Gates

As you all probably know, considering the 2 year lead-up to today and the considerable press coverage, it's Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft. I'd like to take a slightly different spin on covering his career and life, by pointing out the stupid stuff, in the hope it will appeal...

Tags: Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 95, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Sales, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-27