caption contest
Plurk's "overlord" may have described this startup
as a hoax, but Pheltup fever continues to spread thanks to viral marketing like stickers and a
a wild launch party last night. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Google begins testing its new camouflage Steath Shuttle." by
Swifter.
(Photo by Rachel Glaves)
friday facts
Social connectivity site
Twitter has so far not reported to parents any cases of the service being used by K-12 students to request immediate sexual intercourse during school hours. There also appears to be no connection between Twitter users and attempts to
stuff the ballot box for the
Vlog Hot poll, since all the vloggers on Twitter are losing in their respective poll heats; most likely, this means that all those on Twitter who say they're voting for friends, are lying. The code word for tonight's Adaptive Path party has been confirmed as "
tacotruck." Still unconfirmed is the possibility that "tacotruck" is also neighborhood slang for an extremely polluted form of crystal meth also known as "peanut butter," so party attendees should under no circumstances mention both for fear of confusing the vendor.
web 2.0 con
Overheard last night from a developer who
didn't attend this week's business-development-heavy, techie-light Web 2.0 Summit, referring to the staff of
Adaptive Path, who coined the term "Ajax" for a form of dynamic web pages like Google Maps:
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adaptive path
Along with its fellow South Park startups, web development company
Adaptive Path has become the reluctant poster child for the bubble. Today, COO
Bryan Mason has a special request for his friends.
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south park
Welcome to Lazy News, the new Valleywag feature that saves you the time of actually reading news articles. The first article we'll slice-and-dice is the San Francisco Chronicle's business feature from Sunday.
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adaptive path
Flickr's renting space at Adaptive Path's San Francisco office (pictured with taco truck). A close source says the deal's been made but no one's moved in yet, as Yahoo establishes an outpost inside the slick SoMA office.
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