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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008 Photos
Here’s my photo gallery from Maker Faire Bay Area 2008. photos by Scott Beale Related Posts3rd Annual Maker Faire Bay Area, May 3 & 4 in San MateoMaker Faire 2007 Call For Bay Area MakersMaker Faire Bay Area 2008 Ticket GiveawayMaker Faire Austin 2007Toonlet, A Simple Way to Create Web…
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Oakland activist sells cleantech as jobs machine [Van Jones]
Treehuggers proclaim the threat of environmental catastrophe with rapturous religiosity. The eyes of Valley capitalists bulge at the windfall that awaits who can find a renewable energy solution... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Too Much Beyonce?by apartment3b Not enough as far as we're concerned. He should have his own night at The Transfer. [Daily Motion] Police to work for the Board of Supes, not the Mayor? Heresy! [SF Weekly]The SF gays get porn on SF cable. [The Sword]"Conservative Slur of the Day: 'Gray Davis…
UC professor injects racism into H-1B debate [Politics]
Technology industry lobbyists spin the relaxation of H-1B immigration quotas as an "innovation" issue, not the exploitation of a global labor market to depress wages, claims UC Davis computer science... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yahoo prepares to give Google 80 percent of the search ad market [Acquisitions]
As soon as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer makes his next move, Yahoo could announce a plan to serve Google ads against Yahoo search results, the Wall Street Journal reports. Yahoo and Google tested such... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mena Trott revisits her lost youth on YouTube [Six Apart]
Is Six Apart cofounder Mena Trott already getting bored with the tribulations of new motherhood? She took a break from raising future superblogger Penelope Trott, who surely coded Movable Type... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Perez Hilton stars on "viral" hottie rating site to promote HIV awareness [Bad Ideas]
PosOrNot.com, conceived as a public education campaign about HIV/AIDS, apes HotOrNot, asks visitors to the site to guess the HIV status of those pictured, based on photos and social network-style... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Watching the Siphonistas
The coffee cognoscenti were out in force yesterday to see Japanese siphon coffee champion Fumiho Ohto at the Blue Bottle Cafe in Mint Plaza. And though naysayers may quip that Ohto was just...
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Hard-up Herring shakes down startups [Deathwatch]
At Red Herring, every startup is a winner — but publisher Alex Vieux is the one who takes the prize. Indeed, handing out prizes seems to be the main way Vieux is keeping it afloat. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Will the last Akimbo employee please turn out the lights [Rumormonger]
Akimbo has laid off nearly everyone except for its executives, according to a tip we just received. An early entrant in the TV-over-Internet field, Akimbo saw its original CEO Joshua Goldman leave... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Breaking News: Rich Kids Could Get Sprayed With Bullets
While you were a young whippersnapper and only having to deal with fire and earthquake drills, the youth of today have to practice massacre drills--Columbine-style massacre drills, that is. We blame Grand Theft Auto. A local San Francisco school had one "all-too-real" simulation yesterday.…
Larry Page says be like Thomas Edison, not Nikola Tesla [Google]
While taking risks is valuable, it's only those who can successfully commercialize their breakthrough ideas who will succeed, Google cofounder Larry Page told Fortune in a feature interview.You also... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cheer up, Pete Cashmore -- you're inexplicably on Valleywag again! [Caption Contest]
With wine and women, why isn't Pete Cashmore happier? The Mashable blogger's smile had to be mashed into place by Julie Wohlberg at a party thrown by Netvibes. Suggest your caption in the comments;... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft owes Jerry Yang $3,000 [Jackpot]
The California State Controller's Office shows that Microsoft owes Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang $3,008.46 in unclaimed dividend checks. The software giant has apparently been mailing the checks to Santa Cruz... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Robert Scoble redesign draws Michael Arrington's ire [Blogging For Dollars]
Robert Scoble, the man who makes boring videos about tech companies, but only the ones you don't care about, convinced Fast Company to redesign his blog, and it's now practically tasteful. But the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft hire Mark Hamburg hates Windows [Quotable]
Mark Hamburg, pictured here accepting a Photoshop Hall of Fame award, on being hired away from Adobe to work on user experience at Microsoft: "Given that I find the current Windows experience really... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Forbes grabs firm hold of Steve Jobs's "magic wand" [Great Moments In Journalism]
Forbes has exactly two tones: Sarcastically skeptical, if editors thinks its readers don't own a stock, and breathlessly promotional, if they think they do. "The iPhone: Apple's Magic Wand" is an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
May Day Madness: Scene Fron An SFSU Walkout
Photo by agaetisbyrjun "Education: by any means nessisary." [sic] Is this an honest to goodness typo, or is this person trying to get on SFist? Hmm.
Kleiner Perkins closes $500 million green growth fund [Cleantech]
John Doerr has closed a half-billion dollars in capital for the new Kleiner Perkins cleantech growth fund, with buddy Al Gore kicking in some dough from his Generation Investment deal. [CNet] (Photo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
Photo from Thunderheist CLUB: Those zany and offensive Vice Magazine kids are back in town this evening to pour vodka down your throat, shove blow up your nose, and have you up until all hours. The nerve of them. And we wouldn't miss their party for the world. Tonight at Mezzanine, Vice…
Obscene iTunes profit margins finally win Hollywood's heart [Online Video]
Steve Jobs has finally wooed all the major studios, including Fox, Warner Bros., Sony, Paramount and Universal, to sell movie downloads on the day DVDs are released. On Friday, you'll be able to wait... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
'Unless It's A Cactus'
Girl 1: "I just love my new plants, but I threw away the instructions!"Girl 2: "Uh, add water."OVERHEARD BY IRIS
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Ballmer pitches Yahoo to Microsoft employees [Acquisitions]
Microsoft's rank-and-file employees don't want to merge the company with Yahoo. During today's companywide town hall meeting, one of them asked CEO Steve Ballmer to explain the attraction. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jazz At Pearl's: NOT Closing
When we last reported on the fate of North Beach's Jazz at Pearl's, blues chanteuse Kim Nally's bee-bop joint, it was shuttering its doors. for good. Again. Now, according to Tablehopper, whose words we live by, Jazz at Pearl's is staying open. Again. Why? Due to a hefty divorce settlement…
Here comes the cableknit sweater crowd: Ira Glass, Diablo Cody join Twitter [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
Somebody tell Biz Stone and Evan Williams to get the zin and gruyere ready, because here comes the NPR set. This American Life host Ira Glass and Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody just joined Twitter.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
DJ Times' America's Best DJ Nominee List Missing A Few DJs
Although hating on hipsters is, oddly enough, very hip right among self-consciously nerdy Bay Area denizens, SFist must delve into the scene for a moment. Why? Well, to point out some glaring omissions with regard to DJ Times magazine's America's Best DJ nominee list. According to ASD, loads…
Ben Padnos proves there is life after Yahoo -- albeit in infomercials [CashFlowFromCreditCards.com]
newVideoPlayer("cashflowfromcreditcards.flv", 463, 387,""); Yahoos needn't worry about layoffs after a merger with Microsoft. Yes, they're likely. But there's a world of opportunity beyond 701 First... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Potrero Update: 85% Sold And Offering 12 Months Paid Mortgage
According to a plugged-in tipster, The Potrero has moved roughly 25 units over the past five months (~5 per month) and is now 85% sold with 25 condos left to move. And as of today, the sales team is...
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Jimmy Wales drops off the Time 100 list again [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Safe to say that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's plan to take Canadian journalist Rachel Marsden to the Time 100 party are definitely off. Not only have Wales and Marsden broken up, but Time has, as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Report: Microsoft to announce Yahoo decision at 1 p.m. Pacific [Acquisitions]
Steve Ballmer will announce his next move on the Yahoo bid at 1 p.m. today, Kara Swisher reports. At this morning's "town hall" meeting, he still sounded undecided; Swisher thinks walking away is the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Responding to eBay, Craigslist CEO digs hole deeper [Jim Buckmaster]
Jim Buckmaster has just set himself up for a messy court fight. Responding to eBay's lawsuit against Craigslist and its board — the board being Buckmaster and founder Craig Newmark — he... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Contest: Grand Ole Party @ Fillmore
Here's your chance to win a spot on Grand Ole Party's guest list for their upcoming concert with Rogue Wave on Saturday night at the Fillmore. We promised and we never break our promises. (Well, at least we try not to.) This isn't the first time that you've been able to check this band out…
Google's fight for the right to party like sagging, middle-aged rockers [Crash This Bash]
Google has asked San Francisco for permission to host a "picnic-style dinner" for 1,400 sales employees on June 11. What's really pathetic: Google wants its salespeople to boogie down after hours to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Stroyent Helps Prevent Projectile Dysfunction
Many of adolescent male gamers suffer daily from Projectile Dysfunction (PD), but there is now hope with new Stroyent, ask your doctor about it today. via AdFreak Related PostsPower Outage at Rackspace Brings Down Laughing Squid ServersWhoosh Boom Splat by Bill GurstelleOnion Goggles, Eye…
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Google needs to stop being nice and start charging advertisers for distribution [YouTube]
In comments to CNBC's Maria "Money Honey" Bartiromo yesterday, Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared that "advertising itself has value" in YouTube's efforts to achieve profitability. By which he likely... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Egyptian girl disappears for 16 days after creating Facebook group [Social Networks]
Eygptian woman Esraa Abdel-Fattah created the Facebook group "6 April: A Nationwide Strike." On April 7, she disappeared for 16 days. After her mother bought an ad in the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Yom... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Marissa Mayer's tasteless display of designer wealth [Money Can't Buy Taste]
Google search czarina Marissa Mayer explains her "personal style philosophy" — or, at least, that of her personal shopper and the staff at Bergdorf's — in a comprehensive if hardly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
What Happens When Expectations Don’t Match The Market?
A plugged-in reader writes to vent: I’m selling a Loft [in the Mission]. We just dropped our price 20K and got an offer over the weekend for 89K UNDER our new lower offering price. Are you kidding me?! Is this...
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Exclusivity is the new black [Valleywag Calendar]
Invite-only tech parties seem to be the latest thing, but fearless Valleywag bash crashers know better than to take exclusivity lying down. Tonight, VentureBeat is having their soiree at The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Blotter: Mission Mayhem Edition
Taking a cue from the East Bay's recent restaurant robberies, an armed gunman entered Valencia Street Italian eatery Beretta (formerly Last Supper Club/Radio Free Valencia) on Tuesday morning and robbed the joint. The restaurant was filled a with 10 patrons at the time. According to the…