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Comcast, telcos ritually abused at FCC hearings in Palo Alto [Politics]
newVideoPlayer("fcc_net_neutrality_stanford.flv", 478, 378,""); Young San Jose resident Alex Polvi presented the least informed, but probably most typical argument for net neutrality in his public... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FILM: The latest incarnation of Fritz Lang's futuristic classic about the working class and city planners, Metropolis (1927), is its most complete. According to LaSalle, this version is a "new incarnation, the work of a consortium of German archives, runs a full two hours long and uses…
Google's earnings teach it all the wrong lessons [Hubris]
Shareholders will likely be relieved by Google's standout performance in the first quarter. The stock, which had been sinking like a rock, will almost certainly rebound. And Google's self-satisfied... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Buzznet receives $25 million from Universal Music Group [Music]
Los Angeles-based social network Buzznet finally confirmed a long-rumored investment from Universal Music Group, which PaidContent earlier reported to be around $25 million, brining the total... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Brightcove gives up on paid video downloads [Online Video]
Complaining that only one percent of customers were using the feature and even fewer users were actually paying for content, online video distributor Brightcove is shutting down the company's paid... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Flickr Donut Day Images
Since Flickr give us so much, it's only natural for us to want even more. Last week SFist Dianne reported on the web's demanded for Flickr to give us donuts. Flickr's Matthew Rothenberg (a Captured! By Robots fan!) said sure, and yesterday was Flickr's first Donut day. Ta-da. Sadly, we…
And After the Power Outage And Subsequent Storm…A Pool!
How many homes can boast “electric retractable sunroofs?” As far as we’re concerned, not nearly enough (global warming and all). In fact, off the top of our heads we can only think of one other. And that one was...
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Maybe Google's attorneys will spell it a "lawsoot" [Caption Contest]
The Soogle shuttle roams around the 650 area code. With a name like that, we're pretty sure we know what it's looking for: trouble. Give us your own caption for the photo below. The best one becomes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
MySpace savior still hasn't produced miracle ad cure [Online Advertising]
Rupert Murdoch's new handpicked chief revenue officer for Fox Interactive, Adam Bain, has the requisite big idea to save MySpace: an ad network which lets his salespeople sell ads all over the Web,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jakob Lodwick gets it for free -- now with interns [Jobs]
Promiscuous hipster investor Jakob Lodwick is once again looking to score for free. "Basically, if you want to work your ass off for me a few days a week," Jakob wants you for his music startup,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
E*Trade misses Q1 earnings [E*Trade]
Despite turning into a bank, E*Trade retains large offices in the Bay Area. Perhaps set to become smaller. The online broker, embroiled in the market's mortgage mess, missed Wall Street's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Can the Chron Go Lower?
There are things that I respect at the Chron, a lot. Everything that is not in the A section is actually of good quality. The ideal Chron would not need to do much to be better: just removing the A section would improve the paper and adding some balance to the opinion page would help too (and I…
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For a woman's password, offer chocolate; for a man's, try porn [Security]
45 percent of women will give away passwords to strangers pretending to be market researchers when offered a chocolate bar in exchange, according to Infosecurity Europe's survey of 576 office... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fruit-Flavor Infusions Makes Cocaine Even Livelier
As if cucumber- and celery-infused vodkas haven't rocked your world enough, the latest trend in intoxication is fruit-flavored blow. The DEA has come across loads of the sweet treat, most recently finding the junk in two Modest homes that was mixed with strawberry, coconut, lemon-lime (AKA…
Facebook can't get basic ad targetting right [Online Advertising]
Facebook has great features for users, but is having a hard time selling ads. The Beacon program attempts to get agreements from companies to pay Facebook in return for broadcasting purchasing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook can't get basic ad targeting right [Online Advertising]
Facebook has great features for users, but is having a hard time selling ads. The Beacon program attempts to get agreements from companies to pay Facebook in return for broadcasting purchasing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Napster founder Shawn Fanning's third act: Volkswagen pitchman [Clips]
For his second act, Napster founder Shawn Fanning founded a startup, Snocap, which utterly failed to change the music business. After he left, its remnants were sold to Imeem. For his third, Fanning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Police Chief Heather Fong's Deleted Foot-Patrol Letter Revealed
You know how foot patrol police officers in SF are far and few between? How they're pretty much only used to protect the West Approach overpass during construction, homosexual pride events, and Olympic torches? We exaggerate, of course. But barely. Anyway, a Massachusetts-based public…
TED's Chris Anderson invites Kevin Rose, assuring his conference's irrelevance [Unconferences]
Has TED organizer Chris Anderson lost his senses? He has invited Digg founder Kevin Rose to TED 2009 — an honor Rose announced on Twitter in hackerspeak. (If you're a regular TED attendee, you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cause of female entrepreneurs set back decades by website with terrible name [Entrepreneusialism]
When we were notified of the existence of Ladies Who Launch, a website for women with startups, we suppressed the gag reflex triggered by the name. We then consulted one of our favorite... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google's first-quarter earnings [Live Coverage]
Pessimism has been replaced by optimism: After Google shares traded down 1.2 percent today, traders responded to the release of Google's first-quarter earnings by sending the shares up nearly 12... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Longtime CNET editor Michael Kanellos leaving for Greentech Media [Exits]
CNET editor-at-large Michael Kanellos is leaving for a post at the Oakland office of Greentech Media according to a tipster. Kanellos has been with the company for 12 years, and recently added... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google announces first-quarter earnings [Earnings]
In the first three months, he search giant has increased revenues 42 percent year-over-year, and 7 percent over the last quarter, to $5.19 billion. Net income was $1.31 billion, up from $1.21 billion... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Graduation Rates at Big Cities
Only 51% of the incoming ninth graders in the nation's largest 50 urban school districts will graduate four years later. Earlier this month, America's Promise Alliance funded a study to see the likelihood that ninth graders in our nation's biggest cities will have a high school diploma four…
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Justin.tv's Emmett Shear makes Freudian slip about selling company [Flipmeat]
Kicking off a thread on Hacker News about how to sell a business, Emmett Shear, CTO of live-video startup Justin.tv, accidentally typed the name of his current employer instead of his previous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Take the Blogging Ethics Survey!
J-Schoolers and other assorted graduate students, please stop clogging our inbox with shit like this, especially if you don't know our name or plan on getting us drunk beforehand. Thanks. What are we bitching about, you ask? This: To Whom It May Concern: Our names are Kristin McCasland…
Lessons from Ad:tech: Facebook needs to pack the crack pipe for Madison Avenue [Online Advertising]
What can Facebook, MySpace, Google and the rest do better to sell advertising to big buyers like Target, Coca-Cola and Cisco? Cisco's Web marketing director Michele Gibson told an Ad:tech crowd... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jimmy Wales hires bodyguard for New York event [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Invited to speak about "the future of the Internet" at New York University, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales instead spent the session dwelling on his smartphone's inbox. Why was the muse for the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 105
Photo by Michael Aires Taken at Market between 7th and 8th Streets.
The Streets of San Fauxcisco
The Streets of San Fauxcisco had to take a little hiatus because "Eli Stone" was bringing nothing but the boring week after week. Legal shows that do not employ a "chung CHUNG" in their opening...
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Hookers to techies: "ur doin it rong" [Sex Trade]
Sex professionals, like every other contractor in the Valley, can and will turn down your propositions. I just did that to a married guy from Apple who thought he'd earned a freebie. At $250 a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Not even Comcast's Twitter-stalker can placate Dave Winer [Comcast]
Comcast has assigned a customer-service employee to monitor Twitter for the passive-aggressive whines of tech-savvy insiders. A tipster forwards us evidence of the Twitter-stalker in action in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
San Francisco Recorded Sales Activity In March: Down 20.6% YOY
According to DataQuick, home sales volume in San Francisco dropped 20.6% on a year-over-year basis last month (508 recorded sales in March ’08 versus 640 sales in March ‘07) but increased 17.9% compared to the month prior (think seasonality). As...
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Revision3 and Adroll entertain the Valley's ad-slingers [Event Report]
William Hesketh Lever once said, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don't know which half." For over a decade, it's been promised that online advertising will fix... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
East Bay Restaurant Heists Continue at Scary, Steady Pace
So far eight businesses in the East Bay have been held up by robbers in the past couple of weeks. Last night at around 9 p.m., two suspects hit Restaurant Furenzu on Adeline Street in Emeryville, according to CBS 5 (via Bay City News). While police can't be sure that last night's heist is…
Shills and thrills [Valleywag Calendar]
Today, ReMIX 08 is taking over the Microsoft campus in an effort to bring the Vegas conference to the Valley. Over at the Googleplex, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs is hosting a discussion... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
I Lost Me to the Russian Consolate's Spying Tactics
Photo by AgentAkit This sign was found at Geary and 21st Ave. See what meth can do, kids?