Archive for the ‘valleywag’ Category

Julia Allison will teach you "How to Become an Internet Celebrity" at Learning Annex for $45, way less than Parson's protocelebrity program. But don't expect financial advice: Amid turnover at her startup, Allison is considering applying to Stanford ... Full story

AOL hired an army of underemployed music lovers to interview bands at South by Southwest. But the citizen journalists, paid $50 per story, are missing their deadlines, so AOL sent a panicked mass email (below). AOL's Seed division is trying to interview every single one of the 2,000 bands performing at SXSW via its computer-dispatched army of freelancers. At a company ... Full story

On January 1st, Autoblog/Engadget/Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis announced he'd give away one still-imaginary Tesla sedan if his newly-created Twitter account got more followers than Ashton Kutcher. He failed miserably. Also, he probably never planned to give the car away. Update! Update: Jason's responded! Apparently he hates Ray with a vengeance: well @raywert writes for jalopsuck which will never be as ... Full story

Hiroko Tabuchi took New York Times transparency to new levels; Mike Sampson found big trouble in little Austin; and Anthony Ha discovered a door was closed to him. Travel troubled the Twitterati. The New York Times's ... Full story

The geeks at South by Southwest look docile, but online they turn against mutual enemies with ruthless efficiency. This year's victim: Umair Haque, the Harvard wonk whose interview with Twitter's CEO just turned into a virtual stoning. South by Southwest is becoming infamous for such rebellions. The Austin internet conference's geeky audience ... Full story

Everyone expected Twitter to unveil an advertising strategy at the South by Southwest conference in Austin today; instead, the microblogging startup plotted further media domination Actual revenue is "going to take experimentation." Oy: That's a billion-dollar company talking. (Pic) Source: Valleywag Full story

Carol Bartz must be getting lonely. First one of the Yahoo CEO's assistants ditched her a for hipper chief executive. And now her top salesperson is doing likewise — and Bartz learned about it by reading the news. "Top money-maker" Joanna Bradford is leaving Yahoo for infamous robo-news factory ... Full story

Google's CEO went to Abu Dhabi this week and preached. He sermonized about Google's exceptional virtue — its indifference to profit and supreme trustworthiness. His speech should have been shocking. Except that delusional self-righteousness is now routine at Google. Eric Schmidt's comments at the Abu Dhabi ... Full story

Alex Blagg is not going to improvise like some sort of monkey; Lily Allen is not going to stand for your "fat whore" condolences; and Nick Bilton is not particularly enjoying this week's ... Full story

Mark Zuckerberg's hacking of email accounts and user profiles in 2004 could be felonies under Federal and state law, according to privacy lawyers who spoke with Business Insider. As we described last week, Mark used login data of early Facebook members to break in to the private email ... Full story