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What's Sergey Brin doing with Arianna Huffington in Tahiti? [Lazy Valleywag]
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is, two days away from his company's first-quarter earnings call, sunning himself in Tahiti. As is Greco-American blog tycoon Arianna Huffington and Wendi Deng, wife of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Uncov editor switches to photo art [Ted Dziuba]
Terrible Ted's Photoshop remix of an Owen-and-Julia party shot is so good I had to pull it up out of the comments. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bay Area Publisher Dean Singleton Calls Obama "Osama." Yeah, really
Dean Singleton, the media baron who owns just about every Bay Area daily newspaper not named The Chronicle and then some, embarrassed himself Monday in front of a little gathering called the...
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Lies, damn lies, and RSS subscriber figures [Stats]
Google prides itself on running its business by the numbers. But its FeedBurner unit, which tracks subscribers to RSS feeds, has laughably inaccurate numbers, writes venture capitalist and blogger... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Introducing The Apple “i”, It’s Chromey, Glassy and Curvy
The Apple “i” by CollegeHumor is a brilliant parody of the annual MacWorld keynote where Steve Job introduces some “revolutionary” new Apple product. via Valleywag Related PostsHappy 30th Birthday Apple ComputerApple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard PreviewCreating A Custom iPhone…
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Australians question eBay's PayPal-only policy [Antitrust]
Years ago, PayPal was an independent company which fought constantly with eBay to be allowed on the site as a way to settle accounts after an auction was won. Now, years after eBay bought PayPal, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Unlike Zuckerberg, CollegeHumor parodies Steve Jobs on purpose [Clips]
Mark Zuckerberg wants to be the Steve Jobs of his generation. But his fumbling speeches have only shown how far he has to go. A tip, Zuck: Study CollegeHumor's parody. From the gesticulations to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
“POPE” a Parody of the Popular “HOPE” Obama Poster
Speaking of Shepard Fairey, in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to New York City, the magazine ANIMAL commissioned Michael Ian Weinfeld to create “POPE”, a parody of Shepard’s wildly popular Obama “HOPE” poster. illustration by Michael Ian Weinfeld Related…
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Shepard Fairey Designs Covers For New 1984 & Animal Farm
Shepard Fairey has designed some really cool covers for the Penguin Books re-issue of the George Orwell classic books “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “Animal Farm”. via Boing Boing image via Penguin Books Related PostsShepard Fairey at White Walls GalleryShepard Fairey Opening…
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Facebook kills News Feed voting feature, just as advertisers start to praise it [Online Advertising]
Facebook today removed the choice between a "thumbs-up" or "X" icon it used to give users for each item in their News Feed. The icons let them vote for or against each item, and in the process train... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Mortgage crisis a boon to the pharmaceutical industry? [Curbed] Emo! The Musical [Mission Mission]50 years for idiot who bragged about killing man outside Cafe Cocomo. Way to go, dude! [SFGate]Bastard Pope Benedict XVI soils the U.S. today [BeyondChron]Board of Supes meeting broken down.…
Brooke Hammerling, online-video PR rep, weighs in on online-video audience debate [Great Moments In Pr]
BrewPR's snacky flack Brooke Hammerling penned a guest column for Silicon Alley Insider, arguing that the Web video industry needs to come up with a strict viewership metric. Though she doesn't... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why Should Taxpayers Bailout Houseflippers?
As the story of Bob and Sally attest, they shouldn't. The cute and clever film above was produced by Angry Renter. Basically, they're a bunch of apartment-renters who are pissed that while they've been doing the fiscally responsible thing by saving up, the government now wants to tax them…
TechCrunch explained in a sports metaphor [Techcrunch]
If TechCrunch were a football blog, every player in the scouting combine would be the next Tom Brady. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Federated Media loses another client to an acquisition [Online Advertising]
High-Def Digest, a video enthusiast site with more traffic than Boing Boing, has been sold to Internet Brands, a domain-name speculator turned online-advertising network. That's bad news for John... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A Tale of Two Cities - A breakdown of Active Listings in San Francisco
Tuesday Tour and Tax Day prompted me to run a few numbers on the Active Listings in San Francisco. The total number of active real estate listings, not pending or contingent, and excluding any of the numerous new development listings that are not currently in the multiple listing service, totals…
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Microsoft breaking company rules to support Hindu temple [Religion]
Microsoft has long had a donation matching program to encourage employees to give to charity, which also provides the PR team with good material for buffing the corporate image. But the rules... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tumblr security breakdown leaves scenesters exposed for 40 minutes [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
While editing administrator code today, Tumblr founder David Karp and developer Marco Arment inadvertently published private user data for 40 minutes. Karp reports on his blog that 27 email addresses... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tax tips for bloggers from my dad [Taxes]
Californians have another 7 and a half hours to file their taxes. If you haven't started yet, it's time to jump on TurboTax.com and get cracking. This will be my first year filing taxes without a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Robert Scoble Takes a Tour of Rackspace’s Future Headquarters
viewNode("a0e22b02d699b",{ width: 425,height: 274}); Robert Scoble recently launched his new video series Scobleizer TV, which is part of the new FastCompany.TV. One of his recent videos features a great interview with Rackspace about how they are moving their offices and 1,400 employees into a…
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Rumors of booth babes at Ad:tech only slightly exaggerated [Conferences]
Ad:tech San Francisco is on and I'm disappointed. AdWeek's Brian Morrissey promised me Ad:tech would be full of "random, sketchy lead gen ad networks who hire booth babes." Instead, I'm stuck in a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
You Ask, We Answer, You Embellish: Big Developments In The Mission
The two questions: Do you know anything about the 2 huge new condo developments in the Mission: 1. On Bryant and 19th St across from Blowfish Sushi - it was a 50ft hole in the ground for the last 10...
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"Maybe these shorts will shut up the Twitter users" [Caption Contest]
Sarah Lacy at Kinnernet in balmy Tel Aviv showing some leg. Got a better caption? Leave it in the comments. (Photo by Yaniv Golan) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The engineer Google doesn't want you to see [Great Moments In Pr]
Who is Jayant Madhavan? Google would just as soon you not know. The programmer featured prominently in a recent post on SearchEngineWatch about a troubling new Web-search routine: Madhavan's research... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
*FILM: Academy Award winner Emil Jannings (The Blue Angel, The Last Command) stars as Mephisto in F.W. Murnau's (Nosferatu) Faust (1926). this film was considered a special effects breakthrough in its time. Check out Murnau's last silent German film before he moved to glorious Hollywood. …
John Battelle raises $50 million as AOL snatches away his prize [Jackpot]
For once, tech publisher John Battelle has timed a bubble just right. With Wired, where he was a founding editor, he was too early; with The Industry Standard, the tech weekly which crashed and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cab Ride from Hell
Although we are occasional cab riders -- this is San Francisco, after all, not NYC -- we have nothing but mediocre cab experiences. Never horrible, never exceptional (except for one nice cab driver who knew the nearest cross street of every address we gave him -- awesome!!). That's what makes…
Tesla finds the electric car business is a litigious one [Cleantech]
The New York Times reported earlier today that local electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors is suing Fisker Automotive, alleging breach of contract by a designer who took his trade secrets to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Sophisticated Misfit, A Documentary on the Art of Shag
“The Sophisticated Misfit”, a documentary by Mark Chervinsky on the art and world of Shag, is now available on DVD. Here are a couple of trailers for the film: via Tiki Talk painting by Shag Related PostsConspicuous Consumption by Shag at Billy Shire Fine ArtsMacHeads The Movie, A…
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Republican social media propagandist Soren Dayton now leveraging Facebook [Politics]
Suspended John McCain campaign aide Soren Dayton is still obsessed with Barack Obama. This time around he's formed a Facebook group calling Obama an "elitist" for suggesting that small town... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Favorite Story of 2008 So Far
Boing Boing's wonderful things camp up with this beauty. Antonio Patrinostro, 43, was busted by cops last week after "ramming three cars and causing minor injuries" while driving up in Marin. It seems Patrinostro was "on a mission for Area 51." Naturally. Marin Independent Journal has the…
Julia Allison's reality show gets greenlit? [Rumormonger]
We heard from a tipster that Julia Allison's reality show has been given the go-ahead to begin production. No word from JA herself though, just a mysterious blog post. I tried to call Julia for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New York Comic Con 2008
New York Comic Con 2008 takes place April 18-20 at the Jacob K. Javits Center. New York Comic Con is the East Coast’s biggest and most exciting popular culture convention. Our show floor plays host to the latest and greatest in comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, toys,…
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Metallica to Rock Mountain View This Saturday
This one goes out to all you Gen-Xers out there. The Internet-loathing band Metallica will be at Rasputin this weekend for "Record Store Day." (Also: what?) All Shook Down claims that: Wristbands will be handed out starting at 8 a.m. April 19 for the band's 2 p.m. visit, when Metallica…
Intel's profit contracted 12% to $1.44 billion ... [Earnings]
Intel's profit contracted 12% to $1.44 billion in the first quarter as falling prices for flash memory and higher restructuring costs offset strength in its core microprocessor business. Revenue grew... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CollegeHumor founder won't sue Take Two Interactive for patent infringement [Great Moments In Pr]
Ricky Van Veen, founder of sophomoric entertainment site CollegeHumor, was surprised to see one of his inventions pop up in a box of promotional schwag for the new Grand Theft Auto IV game from Take... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tax Day Relief at Whole Foods
Today is the final day, folks. Have you finished your taxes yet? Yeah, neither have we. (Math is hard.) But for all you anal retentive types who, like, know how to balance a checkbook and look at your receipts, Whole Foods can help alleviate some of your tax-day worry. Today they're paying…
Summize, A Realtime Twitter Search
Summize has the best Twitter search service I’ve seen so far. It’s really fast, is well designed and has multiple search options. You can also search by language and even by positive or negative attitude (it looks for emoticons in tweets). Related PostsTwittervisionTwitter Launches…
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Alana Taylor's Twitter Song [Clips]
19-year old NYU student Alana Taylor really wants to be the next "It" tech girl and the new Mahalo Daily host. She even has a show on UStream, which apparently is the hot new thing. Like any good... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Where Twitter's ads are -- and aren't [Online Advertising]
Ads on Twitter? They already exist — just not where TechCrunch's Duncan Riley thought they appeared. Twitter cofounder Biz Stone denied Riley's report, telling Silicon Alley Insider, "We're not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Adam Curry's PodShow changing its name? [Podcasting]
Former MTV Web jockey Adam Curry's PodShow podcasting network is being renamed — to Mevio. At least that's what it looks like from this domain listing forwarded by a tipster. While podcasting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]