<![CDATA[Valleywag: Andrew Mclaughlin]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png <![CDATA[Valleywag: Andrew Mclaughlin]]> http://valleywag.com/tag/andrew mclaughlin http://valleywag.com/tag/andrew mclaughlin <![CDATA[ Who's going to TechTalk Menorca, the Balearic boondoggle? ]]> Martin Varsavsky, the founder of Wi-Fi startup Fon, has concocted another excuse for Web 2.0's jet set to rack up frequent-flier miles and buy carbon offsets: It's called Menorca TechTalk, held on Varsavsky's ranch on the Mediterranean island this weekend. The website is password-protected, but Valleywag got a list of who's going. It's a curious mix of professional conference attendees, like Rapleaf's Auren Hoffman, Loïc Le Meur of Seesmic, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington, and David Sifry of Technorati, mixed in with a few people who have day jobs. There are even Googlers on the list — and when have you known those lot to leave the protective bubble of Mountain View? Oddly, Jimmy Wales did not seem to make the cut, though his New York patroness, Louise Blouin MacBain, is listed. In the comments, sort the TechTalkers into your preferred categories.

  • Alan Levy (BlogTalkRadio)
  • Alec Oxenford (OLX, DineroMail)
  • Alejandro Estrada (DineroMail)
  • Alexis Bonte (Erepublik.com)
  • Andrew McLaughlin (Google)
  • Anil de Mello (Mobuzz)
  • Arturo J. Paniagua (Hipertextual)
  • Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf)
  • Axel Schmiegelow (Sevenload, Denkwerk Group)
  • Benjamí Villoslada (Menèame)
  • Brent Hoberman (Mydeco)
  • Carlos Martìn (IG Expansiòn)
  • Cedric Maloux
  • Christophe F. Maire (Nokia gate5, investor)
  • Claudia Gisiger-Gonzalez (UNHCR)
  • Dan Dubno (Blowing Things Up)
  • David Sifry (Technorati)
  • Demian M. Bellumio (Cyloop)
  • Eduardo Arcos (Hipertextual)
  • Efe Cakarel (The Auteurs)
  • Ehssan Dariani (studiVZ)
  • Esteban Sosnik
  • Esther Dyson (EDventure)
  • Felix Petersen (Plazes)
  • Hans Peter Brøndmo (Plum)
  • Ibrahim Evsan (Sevenload)
  • Ivan Communod (Vpod.tv)
  • Jacob Hsu (Symbio)
  • James Gutierrez (Progress Financial)
  • Jennifer L. Schenker (BusinessWeek)
  • John Markoff (The New York Times)
  • Joichi Ito (Creative Commons, Six Apart Japan, investor)
  • Jon Berrojalbiz (Trading Motion)
  • Jonas Birgersson (Labs2)
  • Jörg Rohleder (Vanity Fair)
  • José María Figueres (Grupo Felipe IV)
  • Jose Marin (IG Expansion)
  • Julio Alonso (Weblogs SL)
  • Lars Hinrichs (XING)
  • Loïc Le Meur (Seesmic)
  • Louise T Blouin MacBain (Louise Blouin Media)
  • Lukasz Gadowski (Spreadshirt.com, investor)
  • Lukasz Wejchert (Onet.pl)
  • Marc Samwer (European Founders Fund)
  • Marcelo Claure (Brightstar Corp.)
  • Marko Ahtisaari (Blyk, Dopplr, FON)
  • Mathias Entenmann (Betfair)
  • Matt Biddulph (Dopplr)
  • Megan Smith (Google)
  • Michael Arrington (Techcrunch)
  • Michael Jackson (Mangrove Capital Partners)
  • Michael Wolf (Farallon Point)
  • Nikesh Arora (Google)
  • Ola Ahlvarsson (Result, FON)
  • Om Malik (Giga Omni Media)
  • R.J. Friedlander (Grupo Planeta)
  • Ricardo Galli (Menéame)
  • Rodrigo Sepúlveda Schulz (Vpod.tv)
  • Rupert Schäfer (DLD, Hubert Burda Media)
  • Scott Rafer (Lookery, Mashery, Winksite)
  • Tariq Krim (Netvibes)
  • Thomas Crampton (Next Media)
]]> Fri, 09 May 2008 15:20:00 PDT Owen Thomas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=389017&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Remainders: The FCC doesn't suck ]]> andrewmc.jpg Someone runs up a false Digg item about a Google acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Turns out that not everything linked from Digg is true. Huh. Who knew? In any case, the lesson here: Digg may be big, but it's not exactly at stock-manipulating level. [Silicon Valley Sleuth]
So tech site CNET bought dating site Consumating in December, and it picked up food site Chowhound just this month. Anyone have an idea what the plan is here? [Chowhound interview]
Ouch. Tech blogger Om Malik's great Andrew Mclaughlin (pictured) quote ("The FCC sucks") comes undone when the Google senior policy counsel writes to Om:

Not my argument. Rather, that s the other side s argument, and the one that has to be addressed by proponents of Net Neutrality (like me!). I even later joked about the inevitability of being misquoted. And yes, sure enough.

Oh, it happened more than once, Andrew. [GigaOM]
And so it begins: a judge orders Google to hand a Gmail account to the feds. Suddenly that "delete" button looks a little better than "archive." [Techdirt]
Esthrfication watch: still stripping vowels, and Mark "Zuckrbrg" is a double victim. [Esther Dyson on Flickr]

]]> Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:50:51 PST ndouglas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=161409&view=rss&microfeed=true