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geeks gone wild

Only millennials get Random Play on Facebook

If you were over 30 years old when you signed up for Facebook, you never got the option to look for "Random Play" — that's what the "kids" are calling it now. Sheryl Sandberg's new No Fun regime at Facebook has taken it a step further: They've removed the Random Play option from some people, including me, who'd already checked it. Now all users' inner sluts have been caged, at least as far as the interface is concerned. More »

Feature

12:20 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Melissa Gira Grant
3,181 views, 12 comments

Latest by random_play: This is an outrage! How will anyone now know the subtle hipster douchebaggery of random_play? Am I to devolve into a short-lived VH1 comedy series starring Stephen Colbert? To say nothing of the cupcakes! + Watch video more »

Party Report

At OutCast CEO Dinner, Robert Scoble greeted us warmly

FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO — Let's be clear: Local PR firm OutCast's CEO Dinner event Thursday night wasn't really a dinner — most people ate standing up. Nor were there many CEOs. (I counted one: Jim Louderback of Revision3.) It's a far cry from years past where the decimated post-bubble survivors of San Francisco's tech press corps would gather in a room and listen to OutCast clients like Gordon Eubanks of Oblix, a salty former submarine officer, utter zingers about the wonders of Viagra. OutCast is a sizable firm now, and it's got big clients like Facebook and Yahoo. But Mark Zuckerberg? Jerry Yang? Nowhere to be seen. Instead, you had a hall full of hacks and flacks. I wonder how many of them shook videoblogger Robert Scoble's hand? Photo gallery after the jump: More »

2:20 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,818 views, 16 comments

Latest by Adam Rock: Have confidence problems? Need a few tips on how to handle those tough everyday situations? well just watch this video and learn how to be a new person! + Watch video more »

caption contest

With Randi and Brandee, Dave McClure feels dandy

At Sunday's SXSW afterparty, Facebook fanboy Dave McClure acquired a fan club: Facebookers Web-video auteur Randi Jayne (née Zuckerberg) and Brandee Barker, chief damage-control officer. More photos from the party, after the jump; your best headlines in the comments. More »

2:20 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,023 views, 9 comments

live coverage

Mark Zuckerberg SXSW keynote

AUSTIN, TX — 1:53 p.m. Central Time: Facebook PR director Brandee Barker gave me this exclusive scoop: CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who's due to take the stage for his SXSW Interactive keynote in minutes, is not wearing his famous Adidas flip-flops. In other news, Julia Allison just chewed me out and then gave me a granola bar. Daft Punk is playing on the sound system.

2:05 p.m.: Zuckerberg and BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, who's interviewing him, have taken the stage. More »

12:00 PM on Sun Mar 9 2008
By Owen Thomas
15,687 views, 14 comments

Latest by Nicholas Carlson: @Ireland: @johnoday: [valleywag.com] more »

brandee barker

Facebook flack's reality check: not yet an exec

A tough message to deliver: "Mr. Zuckerberg is also seeking to hire ... a vice president of communications and public policy, says Facebook spokeswoman Brandee Barker." Barker's title? Director, a level below VP. Mark Zuckerberg isn't just hiring someone over Barker's head; he sent her to relay the news to the Wall Street Journal. The position's so new that it's not yet listed on Facebook's website. Is this how Zuck told his spokeswoman she wasn't getting the VP job? Harsh, dude. (Photo by Brandee Barker)

11:10 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,934 views, 2 comments

Latest by n/a: Flack ≠ Lobbyist. Looking good and being able to construct complete sentences does not a public policy person make, in spite of all those hot actresses "advocating" on reruns of The West Wing. Now, when the new, crusty, ex-Hill gnome cans her more »

great moments in journalism

Fortune's Facebook infomercial


Before Fortune magazine's little dustup about Facebook's controversial new advertising products, Andy Serwer's court jester, David Kirkpatrick, produced a hardly hard-hitting video on the subject. Just how much of a puff piece was this? Fortune managed to dig up some intercutting shots of a very enthusiastic Facebook user. Recognize her? More »

7:52 AM on Thu Dec 20 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
731 views, Comment

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Facebook's foolish foes

I remember, distinctly, when former Business 2.0 editor Josh Quittner's love affair with Facebook began this spring. He couldn't stop talking about it, and I could hardly avoid hearing about it, since my office was next door to his. With all the zeal of a late convert, Quittner evangelized Facebook for most of this year — and now, feeling betrayed by Facebook's Beacon ads, he has attacked them with all the betrayed fury of a new apostate. Facebook is dead — to him, at any rate. Quittner's fickle rage perfectly captures the Silicon Valley hype cycle, and the press's complicity in it. Having buiilt up Facebook, Quittner and his fellow reporters must, inevitably tear it down. But in this latest episode, it's Facebook's critics, not Facebook, who have jumped the shark. More »

Feature

12:27 PM on Wed Dec 5 2007
By Owen Thomas
1,827 views, 6 comments

Latest by Davion: Facebook does have a couple old grey-hairs advising it. They like to stay out of the limelight, because they're Silicon Valley veterans and they know the press is stupid. One of them is from Accel - hint: it's more »

robert scoble

Fake blogger lands real Zuckerberg interview

An anonymous reader writes:
I read [object of inexplicable Valleywag obsession Robert] Scoble's post where he said he'd give Facebook lots of time on his blog, "But they only seem interested in talking to big-brand journalists and I'm not interested enough to pull out my Fast Company business cards to get them to pay attention." Oh come on, Fast Company? Would Facebook really talk to Scoble for Fast Company? I created a Robert Scoble email account and wrote Facebook asking for an interview. Imagine my shock when they said yes! Screenshot attached. What do I do now?
You know what really hurts about this? More »

Feature

1:59 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By Paul Boutin
2,098 views, 12 comments

Latest by Choire: Huh. I guess reading is hard! more »

confirmed

Facebook and Microsoft flacks make friends before deal announcement

Oh, Facebook has a deal to announce? Really? Don't rely on rumors. For confirmation of Facebook's as-yet unannounced deal with Microsoft, look no further than ... Facebook. Brandee Barker, the charmingly indiscreet head of Facebook PR, has just added Adam Sohn, who heads up global sales and marketing PR at Microsoft, as a friend. Just buddies? I think not. But I'm sure writing up the press release announcing Microsoft's investment and ad deal will make them fast friends, indeed.

11:54 AM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Owen Thomas
4,161 views, 2 comments

Latest by Trackback: For me, the most interesting part of the coverage around the Microsoft/Facebook deal announced on Wednesday was this post by the snarkiest of blogs, Valleywag. How's that for radical transparency, friendship via Facebook cited as a clue and evidence of more »

party report

Yahoo and Facebook execs MIA at OutCast party


OutCast PR held an AfterHours party at Frisson, the restaurant co-owned by Facebook board member Peter Thiel. So cozy, since Facebook is OutCast's biggest new client! The place was overrun with hacks and flacks. No surprise, since OutCast wants to show off its chummy press relationships, and other flacks are drawn to journalists like moths to flames. And, of course, OutCast wanted to keep things well-staffed to watch over reporters chatting up executives from Facebook and Yahoo, another big OutCast client. No need, it turned out.

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Feature

4:07 PM on Fri Oct 12 2007
By Megan McCarthy
1,398 views, 2 comments

Latest by HipsterPit: That. . . and the fact they're all whip smart, connected, and crazy hard workers. Hot is just a bonus asset, here. more »

"lame you took my song dedication off ;" — the urgent message Facebook spokesprofile Brandee Barker left for CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Facebook profile, at 1:16 in the morning Monday, shortly before kicking off a week filled with Facebook news and rumors. [Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile]

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Long-suffering Facebook spokesprofile Brandee Barker, besieged by a string of PR disasters, has hired some much-needed professional help. Personnel from OutCast Communications, the PR firm that helped launch Salesforce.com, are now listed as "officers" of Facebook's official group for journalists. [Facebook]

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valley foxes

The flaming-red hotties of Facebook


What is it about the women Facebook hires? I'm sure they're all brilliant, but it needs to be said: The hot social network has equally hot personnel. Randi Jayne, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, finally outs herself on video as a Facebook employee in this clip. But the video doesn't do her justice — as you might have noticed in her "Dontcha" iPhone video, she's distressingly cute. Her colleague, Meagan Marks, gives a sales pitch for working at Facebook that's best appreciated with the mute button on. And spokesperson Brandee Barker? Alas, she's not captured in this video, but you can check her out in this AllThingsD.com video. Or just take our word for it: Total babe. More »

4:41 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
By Owen Thomas
12,728 views, 30 comments

Latest by Davion: This is one of the most hilarious threads on VW in a long time. more »

facebook

"The cold panic, the unbearable neediness"

Forget Facebook fatigue: The new symptom sweeping the Valley is Facebook addiction. A brief outage this morning made most Valley workers more productive — but left some, like strung-out addicts, completely unable to function. One particularly sad case expressed his relief that Facebook was back up. "I've already forgotten the cold panic, the unbearable neediness," he wrote. Also left unable to function: Facebook's PR apparatus, which promised a statement about the outage that has yet to materialize. Perhaps spokeswoman Brandee Barker was hoping to send it out through the Facebook group she normally favors, instead of boring old email, for press releases?

12:29 PM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Owen Thomas
491 views, Comment

also-rans

Facebook's wannabe founders

As Facebook's theoretical value soars, the interest of its hangers-ons grows practical indeed. I think that's why Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra are pursuing their lawsuit against sandal-sporting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with such tireless vigor. But the three Harvard school chums, who say they hired Zuckerberg to work on their competing ConnectU site before he launched what became Facebook, are far from the only ones pressing a claim to have been present at Facebook's creation. (For the record, long-suffering Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker says the company's official cofounders are Zuckerberg, Chris Hughes, and Dustin Moskowitz.) After the jump, a gallery of everyone who's not an official founder — but who'd like to be. More »

5:42 PM on Mon Jul 16 2007
By Owen Thomas
7,102 views, 6 comments

Latest by marketman: I have to admit that this legal situation is one of mixed emotions for me. Sour grapes(plaintiffs) vs. Quite-possibly-the-most-annoying man-on-earth (defendant). Regardless, one or more pretentious ivy-leaguers will get butt-hurt from this, which isn't so bad I suppose. more »