Why Valleywag is only right 17.3% of the time and why we like it
I'm having a good laugh all the way over here in London thanks to Fake Steve Jobs. — Oh, my. Turns out that Valleywag printed a rumor about Facebook's founder that turned out not to be true.
50 Cent: File-Sharing Doesn't Hurt Artists, Industry Should Adapt
Curtis James Jackson III, aka 50 Cent has been a drug dealer, he's been shot, he's a hugely successful artist - selling over 20 million albums - and he even has his own label, G-Unit Records.
Valleywag confession: We're frigtards
Nick Denton, who still claims he's the world's greatest investigative journalist even though he twice incorrectly identified Fake Steve and swore both times he had me dead to rights, is determined to ...
Image Gallery: The Loneliest Place on Earth
Get this white paper now! — (Source: CIENA) Protecting your data, achieving regulatory compliance, and ensuring high availability have one thing in common - a secure, high-performance network that c...
Bill Gates, Mix n Mash, and the future of Microsoft
Being in the same room with Bill Gates, while it wasn't breathtakingly nerve-wracking (he is, after all, a geek, and we weren't there for a performance review, we were just lucky enough to be able to ...
Women are top tech shoppers
WOMEN will overtake men as the primary buyers of electronic gadgets for the first time this Christmas, according to department-store chain John Lewis. — Helen Keppel Compton at the company told The ...
Success without ads
It makes no sense for publications to charge readers on the Web—at least, that's the conventional wisdom. But conventional wisdom does not carry much weight at Consumer Reports, that detailed guide t...
eBayer wants $15000 for Darth Vader Wii
Yeah, just about anything gets ratcheted up a couple levels on the fantasmical scale if Darth Vader makes a cameo, but seriously, $15,000 for a Dark Side Wii? To be frank, this auction has spoof writ...
Time for Luddite & Wanton Label Chiefs to go
It is ironic that in recent months, label chiefs have been stealing center stage from their more illustrious label acts but for all the wrong reasons. Where Britney had teased to reveal too much of h...
Robert Scoble doesn't understand enterprise software
Before saying a word, let me state that in my few dealings with famed uber-geek blogger, Robert Scoble, I've found him to be a great guy and I like him. Having said that, let's address the issue: Sco...
The Twice Shy Entrepreneur
Silicon Valley these days is made up of two kinds of entrepreneurs (I'm painting with broad strokes, bear with me). The first group is the old guard. These are people who started companies during th...
Social Websites As Games - How to Win at Digg, YouTube, Facebook
In a comment on our recent post The Digg Effect, C. Weng pointed to an e-book he has written called The Web: Hidden Games. It is available for free on Lulu.com. Weng commented that his book reveals ...