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Muxtape hacked, causing emo indie types to weep more than usual

Reports came in over the last hour that Muxtape was hacked, and the online-music startup has confirmed the news on its blog.
This afternoon, someone gained access to our server and caused some problems. We are investigating and will have more information soon.
All the various mixes played one song and one song only — noodly downtempo chillout "Good Disease" by Aim. Could a sufficiently emo Connected Ventures engineer ticked at Muxtape backer Jakob Lodwick's poaching of Justin Ouellette have decided to take matters into his own hands?

2:20 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Jackson West
529 views, 4 comments

Latest by raincoaster: Caused how many emo indie types to weep? All the ones I know are over at nin.com remixing at will. more »

clips

Yes, that's Jay Adelson rapping and Kevin Rose not dancing

IAC's Connected Ventures may have done it first, and AOLers in France may have done it better, but give Digg's companywide lip-synching video credit. Skip ahead to check out Jay Adelson at 2:02. Rewind from there to see Kevin Rose Digg underlings jumping up on a conference-room table. (Founder Kevin Rose doesn't actually appear until the very end, where he declares the group "crazy" and leaves. For his future dignity, a wise move. No one has, as yet, leaked footage of Barry Diller or Randy Falco wearing shades and rapping.) Full clip is below: More »

3:40 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,986 views, 14 comments

Latest by Ken: i want to work there now =) just party and drink bear with geeks more »

exits

Barry Diller is paying Jakob Lodwick more than $100,000 a year to stay away from IAC employees

We heard Jakob Lodwick may have broken his severance agreement with IAC's Connected Ventures when he poached Vimeo Web designer Justin Ouellette to help him start Muxtape, an online mix-tapes startup. How much could the gaffe cost the Connected Ventures cofounder? Reportedly, $100,000 a year through 2011. "What a mess," an IAC exec tells us. True, but mostly for Lodwick. IAC can hire more Web designers to replace the one Lodwick's entrepreneurial ventures have cost them so far. Diller's six-figure dole will be harder for Lodwick to replace.

4:40 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
3,891 views, 18 comments

Latest by MATIC: It's actually a bit annoying because all the other college humor guys are cool and smart. Too bad this one jackass gives their whole thing a bad name. more »

exits

Lodwick's Muxtape mess

Jakob Lodwick, the fired founder of Vimeo who's now dabbling in online music, rushed out an announcement of his involvement with Muxtape, an online mix-tapes startup — shortly after we started asking questions. But in his attempt to spoil our scoop, Lodwick may have put the payout he got from Vimeo's parent company, IAC, at risk. We're told that part of Lodwick's severance package included a fairly typical agreement to not poach any of his former Connected Venture colleagues for future projects. But with Muxtape, that's just what Lodwick's done. More »

1:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,766 views, 8 comments

Latest by michaellamb: @matto, i'm just jealous man....Lots of great geeks out there. A much longer list than the ones who regularly get pownced upon at vallewag, which is why I read the site. If I want gushing, banal, ass kissing there are more »

Jakob Lodwick now even more unemployed-looking A tipster sends us this photo of departed Connected Ventures cofounder Jakob Lodwick and his mustache. He's named it "moustache." Perhaps he'll win over Scarlett Johansson by offering her a ride?

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nerdspotting

Jakob Lodwick invades Bay Area; hide your women, venture capitalists

Jakob Lodwick is back in the Bay Area, kicking it at his cousin's San Francisco-based startup. The only thing slightly more terrifying than the prospect of one of our local girls becoming his new softcore pinup is the notion that Lodwick might end his blogging strike. Oh wait, he has — three times over. Lodwick, unemployed after getting fired from Connected Venture by Barry Diller, lasted 20 days without blogging. Alongside our daily dose of Jakob Lodwick, he'll expose us to stuff he likes, and apparently work on a political manifesto dubbed The Invisible Fist in which he'll attempt to destroy capitalism as we know it. Good luck on Sand Hill Road, Jakob.

5:00 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Mary Jane Irwin
1,232 views, 13 comments

Latest by vulturesquadron: Quibble: This guy is not a nerd by any reasonable definition. A proper nerd is plus intelligent, minus character and minus dexterity. He satisfies only two out of three of these criteria. more »

jakob and julia

Guy without a job seeks to humiliate his ex

Fired Connected Ventures founder Jakob Lodwick thought it would take a whole 300 or so words to humiliate his ex-girlfriend, Star editor-at-large and Mossberg-esque technology evangelist Julia Allison. All this because Lodwick and Allison's relationship — friends prefer to characterize it as a postmodern art project — went awry. But Jake, there was no need to go over a 100 words. More »

9:20 AM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
12,641 views, 38 comments

Where'd you go over the holidays? Cabo, it's supposed to be the West Coast's Mexico. But here's photographic evidence that Silicon Alley entrepreneurs (and B.J. Novak from "The Office," back left) like to play in the Pacific, too.

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jakob lodwick

Lodwick's latest project is homeless humor

Amateur attention seeker and entrepreneur Jakob Lodwick may be releasing a new project soon with David Karp, the creator of blogging tool Tumblr. Lodwick recently cut ties with both his beau, Julia Allison, and Connected Ventures, the startup he founded, now controlled by IAC and best known for Vimeo and College Humor. Without Barry Diller's backing or Allison's cleavage, how will the pasty, shirtless hipster generate the buzz he's grown to expect but rarely deserves? By mocking the homeless. More »

10:24 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Tim Faulkner
4,186 views, 9 comments

Latest by jim_rock: @beng you should whois "get a fucking life" more »

real estate

Make it in Silicon Alley and you might just land yourself a bathtub

In Silicon Valley, VCs talk about building wealth for your great-grandchildren. But for Manhattan's tech entrepreneurs, success is measured by being able to immerse yourself in bubbly water at home. Connected Ventures cofounder Ricky Van Veen — yes, one of those "silly kids" in New York I cover way too much — just bought a new pad. Paul Boutin's response: "Who?" Owen's: "Wake me when you have photos of Mark Zuckerberg's new condo at the Ritz." Whatevs. Check out the hot real estate porn. More »

3:29 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
4,868 views, 9 comments

Latest by Nicholas Carlson: @Alleygal: And two weeks later, Alleygal lets them have it. more »

Writers' strike hurting, not helping CollegeHumor The television and film writers' strike over Internet pay was supposed to be a boon for Internet-only content creators. But according to CollegeHumor cofounder Ricky Van Veen, that's not been the case.

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connected ventures

Zach Klein not the man for the MySpace redesign

Connected Ventures cofounder Zach Klein did fly out to California to interview for a gig at MySpace, but it wasn't the right fit for him. Or he wasn't the right fit for MySpace. Hard to tell which. So what's the designer behind BustedTees and Vimeo up to next? Think geckos and real estate. More »

10:40 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
1,811 views, 9 comments

cubicle culture

Jakob Lodwick on driving the old people out with slinkies


Here, in an October video, ousted Vimeo cofounder Jakob Lodwick explains how Connected Ventures keeps the office young. His opening thought is the kind of thing that's best both read and viewed. So, here. For your pleasure. More »

1:41 PM on Fri Dec 7 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
1,907 views, 8 comments

connected ventures

Merry Christmas from IAC's Ricky Van Veen and his women

Rumor is Julia Allison is on to her next geek, Connected Ventures cofounder Ricky Van Veen. But don't worry, the family's fine. Van Veen is pictured here with his significant other and some girl. "Her name is Anna," Van Veen tells me. "And before she was my girlfriend, she was a model for our T-shirt site, BustedTees." We're not going to see a RickyandAnna.com anytime soon, are we? "We shall not," Van Veen says. Promises, promises.

4:52 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
2,470 views, 5 comments

Latest by cdaiger: Anna is the friend of Amanda Lyn Ferri (of Flagpole Sitta Lip-dub fame). If I recall correctly, they grew up together. more »

Jakob Lodwick working with Tumblr? Jakob Lodwick, no longer Barry Diller's secret weapon, is out at Vimeo, the IAC-controlled online-video site he founded. So what's next for the notorious fame-seeker?

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jakob lodwick

Connected Ventures party busted by cops



"It's not a new thing. Two months ago, we had a party, and I beat up five cops and threw their bodies out the window." So said freshly fired Vimeo cofounder Jakob Lodwick when police officers broke up the Connected Ventures holiday party. Unknown at this time is the aftermath of the officers' visit or the reason why the cops were called. (Noise? One hopes there's more to it than that.) Also unknown: the level of awkwardness created by the Lodwick's abrupt exit from Connected Ventures, the IAC-controlled startup which runs Vimeo and CollegeHumor. Facebook sales director Kevin Colleran captured the video of Lodwick's comments as the party got shut down.

12:31 AM on Mon Dec 3 2007
By Megan McCarthy
3,467 views, 5 comments

Latest by Patricia2: Parties always get busted if you don't have them at proper venues, but what a funny story. more »

vimeo

Did Julia Allison's boobs get Jakob Lodwick fired?

Jakob Lodwick, the Vimeo founder allegedly fired today from the IAC-controlled online-video site loves to post racy photos of himself and his love, notorious New York nobody and Star editor-at-large Julia Allison. That fact can't have been lost on his corporate overseers, which makes commenter brigamortis's theory — that he'd been fired for posting a mildly salacious photo of Allison to his personal blog — seem ridiculous on its face. Still, Lodwick took the photo in question off his blog, a move which raises suspicions. We obtained the photo, above. Could Allison's knockers really have gotten Lodwick canned?

6:31 PM on Fri Nov 30 2007
By Owen Thomas
25,223 views, 29 comments

Latest by Fidel on the Roof: " BY SAMPLE032 AT 11/30/07 08:07 PM I'm no expert, but is that a push-up bra? " Yup. Overrated and average. Next? more »

Was Jakob Lodwick fired from Vimeo? We now hear that Jakob Lodwick, the fame-seeking oddball who started Vimeo, didn't quit the IAC-controlled video site — he was fired. And probably not for his views on Web development, either. Anyone know more?

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