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Valleywag cares less about women in technology than Google engineering
Thanks to Google Calendar going down I forgot the Women 2.0 business plan challenge was happening tomorrow, Saturday, at Stanford. A competitor who'd kindly submitted the item for our calendar with plenty of notice was non-plussed to find no mention this morning. With my tongue in my cheek to make room for the foot in my mouth I borrowed her suggested headline for this little reminder to check it out. [Women 2.0]
tony perkins
Fresh from back in January: VCs bump heads at the Churchill Club's annual trend argument
What happens when you stick a handful of VCs into a room and ask them to pontificate? Apparently not much. By the time that notables like John Doerr and Steve Jurvetson got to this late excerpted part of their panel at the Churchill club, they were playing the Valley version of those late-night college bull sessions — "Dude! Dude! The girls on The O.C. are all hot but if you HAD TO PICK JUST ONE..." — with the usual "Who's the next ___" talk. More »
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To-Do this week: Clooney Clooney Clooney!
- Tonight: We'll have fun fun fun at the Wired Rave Awards (you're not invited), where winners include Steve Jobs (winner of the Steve Jobs award. I'm not making this up), local developer Jesse James Garrett (inventor of Ajax), Valleywag's big sister Lifehacker, and...drumroll...George Clooney! Granted, Clooney (pictured receiving a real award) didn't show for the TIME 100 ceremony, so Wired's chances are slim. And it may actually be boring. But we'll really have fun fun fun at the Rave Awards Afterparties (you're not invited), so I'll be at both to see how fast the Blizzard Entertaingment team (winners, Games category) get drunk.
- All this week: Wagging correspondent ConFonz will attend Sun's JavaOne Conference so you and I don't have to.
- Thursday morning: SVASE (the Silicon Valley Association of...something...Entrepreneurs) holds a VC Breakfast in a Sand Hill Road law office. Isn't this what Buck's is for?
- Thursday evening: Jeremy Pepper, Snacky or Flacky contestant (he lost), MCs a discussion of corporate blogging unplugged. Needed: photographer and gossipmonger. E-mail tips@valleywag.com.
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To-Do this weekend: mesh with technology, become immortal
You have things to do this weekend! You are very busy and important! More »
confabulous
Buzzword Babylon at OnHollywood
OnHollywood, the conference held by the Tony Perkins's AlwaysOn Network that's just now wrapping up, shows the signs of a good and bad event. The good: A decent Flickr pool. The bad: A cluster on Tech Memeorandum. But the Flickr stream proves this was a missable event, or at least required a Web 2.0 Kool-Aid apĂ©ritif. More »
david weekly
SuperHappyDevCam
Hump Day's over! Got a couple minutes in the office? (Of course you do, you work at Google and leaving before 7 would be gauche.) Chill with this video of the latest SuperHappyDevHouse, the recently reported geek-out with the cooked-books-detector and sex in the cramped bathroom (sex not in video). More »
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Get Valleywag onto the Googleplex
I was so stoked. Noah Robischon, editor-at-large of Valleywag's big brother Gizmodo had passed me an invite to Google's May 10 Press Day (Hear Eric Schmidt speak! Bump/rub/brush shoulders with John Battelle! Ask Marissa Mayer to take a Turing Test!). After gleefully tapping in my info and getting a "thank you" page, I assumed I was in — in a few weeks I'd be back on the Plex, my first visit there in a Gawker Media capacity. More »
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To-do: B-listers need not apply
- Tonight: Schmooze with organizer Vincent Lauria and other dot-commers at the Silicon Valley New Technology May Meetup (Upcoming.org). E-mail Lauria if you didn't RSVP but are very important.
- Wednesday: Learn what "underage avatar sex" means in the discussion Virtual Worlds — The Rules of Engagement, at Mountain View's Computer History Museum.
- Wednesday: Shield your eyes for The GIF show, a celebration of the animated GIF opening Wednesday night at the Rx Gallery.
- Thursday: You are so not cool enough for this event (until you change the wiki). Only the 43 best bloggers (Upcoming) are allowed at an exclusive House of Shields meetup. (Oh hell, sneak in. What'll they do, take you off their blogrolls?)
superhappydevhouse
Geeking out: Coding and condoms at SuperHappyDevHouse 9
This weekend, PBWiki founder and coder Dave Weekly hosted the ninth in his grand series of SuperHappyDevHouses (where guests have included the inventor of the mouse, and where each iteration is unpredictable, like a fractal and unlike a King of Queens episode). More »
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To-Do this weekend: DevHouse and Startup School
This is the weekend you make your first billion. More »
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ConFonz at Ad:Tech: More sex metaphors than you can shake your stick at
ConFonz is off in his own special universe this week, a world of orgies and extreme public deviance. Before checking into rehab AND a mental clinic, he filed a report from the ongoing Ad:Tech conference that reads like the script for The Aristocrats. More »
google
Google throws an open house in Santa Monica
Dust off the Gevil tees and trek to the Southern Plex. A Yahoo mail user (employee? maybe) says: More »
dorkbot
Geeking out: Jake Appelbaum tees and an RFID-run trampoline at Dorkbot SF #25
Last night's Dorkbot SF was Boing Boing in a box. First, Mikey Sklar explained how he implanted an RFID tag (a simple chip with a 40-digit number) in his hand. Then he showed off some projects using the tag, including a proxiity-controlled trampoline-triggered oven...flamethrower...thing. (The upshot: You jump on the trampoline, the flames shoot up.) More »
steve ballmer
Even in the overpriced conference world, the going price to hang out with Ballmer and Gates is cheaper than two shares of Google. An eBay bidder paid just $760 for two passes (and one hotel room — hot!) at the Microsoft MSN 7th Annual Strategic Account Summit, a 3-day, 3-night conference in Redmond, Washington.
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Cocktails with Ballmer and Gates, $760 on eBay
Even in the overpriced conference world, the going price to hang out with Ballmer and Gates is cheaper than two shares of Google. An eBay bidder paid just $760 for two passes (and one hotel room — hot!) at the Microsoft MSN 7th Annual Strategic Account Summit, a 3-day, 3-night conference in Redmond, Washington.
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dan gillmor
The Gillmor Guys
In the chat after his Berkeley lecture ("The State of American Media") this week, Dan Rather talked to ZDNet journalist Steve Gillmor, who came with indie journalist (and ex-Mercury-News columnist) brother Dan Gillmor and Steve's look-alike friend, RSS czar Dave Winer. To save you from caption confusion, here's the breakdown: More »
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To-Do: Drink with flacks, heckle Meebo
- The Mozilla Foundation shows the best Firefox Flicks at San Fran's Kabuki Theater at 2 PM. The best grassroots ads for the indie Firefox browser will be shown — and the best of the best get prizes, including a massive three-screen monitor. [Spread Firefox]
- Thursty Thursday, "the leading weekly Thursday-after-work-happy-hour-gathering-for-professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area," starts at Gordon Biersch (Embarcadero and Harrison) after work (Googlers: this does not mean 2 AM) tonight. Bring your liver.
- Niall Kennedy hosts another SF Tech Sessions demo night. Meebo (use your IM accounts on the web), Userplane (chat and video chat), and Linden Lab (explore the fancy 3D world of Second Life) demo their products at Microsoft's SF office. No bar and fish tray this time, but Niall promises pizza and "soda and other fizzies." Or brown-bag it from Thursty Thursdays. [SF Tech Sessions]
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