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Online-ad network Adify sold for $300 million [Online Advertising]
The news of Adify's $300 million sale was likely the first time most had heard of the online-advertising company. The San Bruno startup was so obscure that Silicon Alley Insider, which first aired... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
GETV Interviews Nerdcore Rapper MC Frontalot
On the latest episode of GETV, Irina Slutsky interviews legendary nerdcore rapper MC Frontalot. A documentary on MC Frontalot, “Nerdcore Rising” by Negin Farsad, premiered this year SXSW Film and is currently making the festival rounds. Last weekend at ROFLCon in Cambridge I had a…
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Master The Internet
Let Dale teach you how to “Master The Internet”, including the secrets of A/S/L/#/Z. Related PostsInternet Radio Day of SilenceR2-D2 Mailbox, USPS Jedi Shipping & Mailing MasterGETV: What Has The Internet Done For You Lately?Dilbert: I Find Joy Only On The InternetThe Internet…
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SwashBot, 3 Legged Robot Made Using R/C Helicopter
SwashBot 1 and Swashbot 2, the latest project by Crab Fu, are a couple of wonderful 3 legged robots created using remote control helicopters. photo via Crab Fu Related PostsCardboard Robot Rumble in San FranciscoGay Robotdorkbot-sf #22 photosCardboard Robot Rumble 2007 PhotosBigDog Beta Parody…
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Proof That Context Is Everything (Which Is Why We Rarely Provide Any)
Man In Airport, Loudly, To His Wife: "The Invisible Gorilla has escaped!" OVERHEARD BY ERIN
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This Week in Le Rock: April 28 - May 4
This week you have the opportunity to catch a bunch of bands that were just here in the past few months. This time they are all playing different venues. First off, tonight Basia Bulat will be opening for Devotchka at the Fillmore. Last time we saw her she was at Bottom of the Hill. Her stuff…
Day Around the Bay
Moose's: the end. [Eater]Kip and Nicole Macy, more evil than ever before. [Valleywag]Whole Foods for fags? [Curbed]BeyondChron thinks journos should spend time at Zeitgeist and CELLspace, or something like that. [BC]ANTM recapped. [Culture Blog]Interviewing Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington.…
Labor complaint against Uloop could set new precedent for Web unionization drives [Social Networks]
Are employees who even mention the word "union" on employer-organized internal message boards protected under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935? "This is kind of a new frontier, a gray area,"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Twistori, a First Person Visualization of Twitter
twistori is a social experiment by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs that is a really cool first person visualization of Twitter using data from Summize. Related PostsTwittervisionTweetmeme, Tracking Popular Links on TwitterFollowing SXSW via SplashCast & TwitterTwitter Launches Mobile…
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Email startup tries to hurry Microsoft-Yahoo merger [Xobni]
Former Yahoo executive Jeff Bonforte, now CEO of Xobni, has come up with possibly the most cynical yet useful product ever launched by a startup. Xobni, whose software tracks and analyzes email usage... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Toast Wallet & Pickpocket Wallet by Archie McPhee
Archie McPhee is has just announced two new wallets to add some hip to your pocket, the delicious Toast Wallet and safety concious Pickpocket Wallet. images via Archie McPhee Related PostsTic Tac Toast, Helping You Play With Your FoodArchie McPheeSeth Godin, Marketing Guru Action Figure by Archie…
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San Francisco landlords Kip and Nicole Macy allegedly falsified emails to defame pesky tenant [Crime]
New details have emerged in the landlord-tenant dispute featuring Palo Alto couple Kip Macy, a software engineer who's worked on FreeBSD, and wife Nicole Macy, a local realtor. Emails were purpotedly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Filming in San Francisco
Over the weekend, a couple of young filmmakers asked if I knew how they could get permission to film on Treasure Island. Coincidentally, the San Francisco Chronicle ran a piece...
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San Jose Mercury News inadvertently offers most accurate analysis yet of Microsoft-Yahoo deal [Great Moments In Journalism]
Wondering what a Microsoft takeover will mean for the Yahoos? Front-page editors at the San Jose Mercury News offer what one hopes will be the last word. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
*MUSIC: John Reis (best known as singer and guitarist for Rocket from the Crypt, who goes by such monikers as Speedo, Slasher, and The Swami) has yet another post-punk project to share with you all: the Night Marchers. They perform in Potrero Hill tonight along with the Muslims and…
Who needs users when you have PR? [Twitter]
A Forbes article estimates the number of Twitter users at 80,000. The story does not note the number of news articles mentioning Twitter in Google's database: 10,800. [Forbes] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hans Reiser convicted of murdering ex-wife Nina Reiser [Crime]
After two and a half days of deliberation, an Oakland jury has voted to convict Linux developer Hans Reiser of murder in the first degree in a case involving the disappearance of his ex-wife Nina... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why is Philip Seymour Hoffman kissing this startup dude? [Caption Contest]
Ustream.tv business-development associate Mazyar Kazerooni will do anything to get ahead — including, it seems, a little asphyxiation at the ubiquitous hands of Fast Company egoblogger Robert... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hans Reiser Verdict In: GUILTY
Or so says the cock-teasing scrolling bar across the bottom of our TV screen on KTVU. Anyway, what is the verdict in the Hans Reiser murder case? They don't say. (What we can tell you is that some dude is not the father.) Do you know? Fill us in. Update #1: 'It's expected to be announced…
Google discloses ex-Pixar CFO's legal trouble -- but Disney doesn't [Lawsuits]
The stock-options backdating scandal, which bored Silicon Valley the day the SEC first announced its investigations, continues. The latest to disclose a brush with the law: Google. Google has not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Your Recycling Bins Are Showing
M&R of La Chron has put out another great piece on the gripe-vine: those $100 fines for leaving garbage bins out past 6 p.m. on garbage days. Yes, DPW is actually going around and issuing these tickets -- we barely missed getting one four months ago when we received a "warning" but not a…
Slow-motion newspaper-industry death continues [Death Of Print]
Newspaper readership, long resilient, is now clearly dropping. Paid circulation from September 2007 to March 2008 dropped 3.6 percent from the similar period a year ago; Sunday circulation dropped... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Intel lets Jobs play with its chips early, makes the other PC kids watch [Apple]
Apple updated its iMacs today with a new processor from Intel that's not supposed to be available for another 45 days yet. It's not the first time Intel gave Steve Jobs first dibs. A year ago, new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Raider/49er Draft Pick Highlight Porn
By Joe Kukura Football, people! Unless you live under the worst toupee in sports broadcasting, you know that the NFL Draft was this weekend. Endless hours of live intrigue and analysis, both Saturday and Sunday, nonstop on two different cable channels – with no actual sports of any sort…
Sarah Lacy's Twitter snit [Nerdfight]
Having made her name on a cover story about Digg's Kevin Rose and a $60 million fortune he has yet to make, tech columnist Sarah Lacy has paused to sniff dismissively at (questionably accurate)... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Free Cone Day - Ben & Jerry's
Free Cone Day doesn't show up under U.S. Holidays on my iCal. Go figure. But if you go to the Ben & Jerry's website, you'll find a store locator giving...
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Dog Fight, A Threadless T-Shirts Design by David Thorley
“Dog Fight” is a wonderful new Threadless T-Shirts design by David Thorley. illustration by David Thorley Related PostsI’m A Huge Metal Fan by Threadless T-ShirtsFace Hooked Threadless T-Shirt Design for Facebook AddictsThe Communist Party by Tom BurnsVintage T-Shirts, a…
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Microsoft hires father of Photoshop away from Adobe [Hires]
Engineer Mark Hamburg has left Adobe for Microsoft. Known as the "architect" of Adobe, Hamburg is credited by the Photoshop Hall of Fame with "programmer logic and the compositing models that unite... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Free Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Tomorrow
Oh no. Here it comes again: Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day. For those of you who eat, tomorrow B&J is celebrating their 30th birthday by handing out free cones of ice cream. (We hear their new flavor Cake Batter is downright spectacular, by the way.) Here are a few stores where you can…
New hybrid Prius to conspicuously consume slightly less gas [2009 Toyota Prius]
Details have emerged about the latest model of the Valley's most self-righteous ride, the 2009 Toyota Prius, which hasn't been significantly updated since 2004. It will reportedly be longer, faster... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yahoo "still smoking dope," according to Microsoft advisor [Acquisitions]
newVideoPlayer("Yahoo_smoking_dope.flv", 463, 387,""); CNBC David Farber reports that Microsoft will move to getting a new, takeover-friendly Yahoo board elected later this week through a move known... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
LBAM Rally - An Appeal to First Lady Shriver
Tomorrow (April 29, 2008) there's a citizens rally in Corte Madera -- to petition First Lady Shriver to stop the proposed aerial spraying over the San Francisco Bay Area. She's...
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SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
Man. For the second week in a row, "Top Chef" has really pissed us off. Not for the obvious reasons of losing our locals, but because it seems like the judges are making some really boneheaded decisions, and it's just annoying to watch. Anyway, last week we lost Ryan, leaving Jennifer the…
Ten People Without Homes After Fire In...Little Hollywood?
A three-alarm inferno burned a total of four buildings around 7:30 p.m. last night in the Little Hollywood neighborhood of San Francisco. According to AP, the fire started out "in a wood-frame building with commercial space on the first floor and a residential flat above it." Winds helped…
Facebook NSFW! Julia Allison and other pics from Randi Zuckerberg's Vegas bachelorette [Geeks Gone Wild]
Can you imagine a photo op that Julia Allison wouldn't attend? What happens in Vegas goes instantly to Valleywag, Allison knows, and so she flew to Las Vegas to attend Randi Zuckerberg's bachelorette... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 111
Photo by SF Citizen Bust out your baggy clothes, tiny backpacks, and heroin cooking spoons: '90s fashions have returned to San Francisco.
Image-search startup Riya calls Google's plans "largely impossible" [Search]
Google-backed researchers Shumeet Baluja (pictured) and Yushi Jing presented the Mountain View company's latest image search and recognition efforts to an audience in Beijing, China on Thursday. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
AirJelly by Festo, A Radio Controlled Airborne Jellyfish
German industrial automation company Festo has created AirJelly, a really cool radio controlled airborne jellyfish. Airshipworld has more info on the project. AirJelly is a remote radio-controlled airborne jellyfish with a central electric drive unit and an intelligent adaptive mechanism.…
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SFist Blotter
Sunset District, Sunday: In the midst of an argument with a family member, an unidentified 53-year-old man was stabbed to death, allegedly "by his brother during a verbal dispute." The murder, it seems, happened at around 4 p.m. in the area of 26th Avenue and Lawton Street.Hayes Valley,…