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The incredible shrinking Apple CEO

Apple PR has finally come up with an unconvincing explanation for Apple CEO Steve Jobs's all-too-evident skinniness: Jobs was suffering from a "common bug" when he spoke at Apple's WWDC event, a spokesperson told the Wall Street Journal. Spin aside, there's no hiding the fact that Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to have more heft a decade ago. Some continue to worry about his brush with cancer, or an overly strict diet imposed by wife Laurene Powell-Jobs, or a case of manorexia. But it's not like Jobs slimmed down overnight. The ever-shrinking Jobs in pictures, from 1998 to 2008, below. More »

Feature

6:00 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
23,651 views, 53 comments

Latest by n/a: Speaking as current chemo patient, I can tell you, this guy does not look like he's sick. Yes, he's lost weight over the years, by these photos. And apparently is too cheap to buy new turtlenecks a size smaller, to 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 »

party report

Digg meetup more like a concert in a land without women

The line to get into Digg's meetup and live filming of Diggnation last night in Brooklyn went around the block. Inside, the joint was packed with dudes drinking beer, waving around iPhones, and wearing T-shirts. There were maybe like 10 or 15 women. Just as rare: Microsoft Zune users. Despite Microsoft's sponsorship, when Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback tried to give away Zune T-shirts, the crowd only booed. Julia Allison's entourage, Kevin Rose, and more in our photo gallery. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Jun 5 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,662 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: I would have gone but it was in Brooklyn and I don't venture outside of Manhattan. Plus, I would have wanted those Zune shirts. I love my Zune. more »

exclusive

Photos from Randi Zuckerberg's wedding

Darlings, everyone who's anyone is flying to a Caribbean island to get married. Larry Page and Lucy Southworth did the deed on some spit of sand called Necker Island. Randi Zuckerberg? The Facebooker took over something like the entire island of Jamaica to get hitched to venture-capital associate Brent Tworetzky. Or just Runaway Bay — our sources can't get that part entirely straight. But we did get a batch of photos from the wedding. A destination wedding in Jamaica? Expensive. Making your younger brother, who's ostensibly your boss and worth $4 billion on paper, dress in a turquoise vest and an ill-fitting tuxedo shirt? Priceless. The photos: More »

2:00 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Owen Thomas
9,283 views, 19 comments

Latest by Fidel on the Roof: Now, how do you get these exclusive FadBook scoops and exclusive pix of Zux's sister? more »

gallery

Photos from Marissa Mayer's "Sex and the City" screening

CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO CENTRE 9 — Where are the girls? An event producer and I both nervously paced through the lobby. Where was Marissa Mayer? The Google executive had rented a theater for the 8:50 screening of Sex and the City, but she and 300 of her closest friends were nowhere to be seen. Late, of course — have you tried to walk the block-long distance between Mayer's Four Seasons penthouse and the Westfield Centre in a pair of Manolo Blahniks? Finally, I spotted someone I knew — gorgeous Googler Brittany Bohnet, girlfriend of Facebooker Dave Morin, above. ("People are saying I look like Charlotte," said Bohnet, pictured above. "Do you think so?" Yes. Cuter than Charlotte, actually. More »

10:30 PM on Fri May 30 2008
By Owen Thomas
13,102 views, 33 comments

Latest by n/a: I personally like chicks with a bit of an edge and some semblance of a personality, not some pumped up big lipped silcone LA fakie. Both the chicks in the last picture are a) hot and b) could probably hold more »

d6 live coverage

Security ejects Valleywag from D6 conference

CARLSBAD, CA — I wasn't just eighty-sixed, folks. No, I was eight-D6'd. There I was, charming my way through the crowd at the Wall Street Journal's D6 conference — why hello, Sir Howard Stringer of Sony! Oh, was that Steve Case? — when a woman announced herself as "in-house security" and informed me that "the client" had asked that I be shown the door. "The client" being Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, the conference organizers, and "the door" actually just the way to the hotel bar, where I'm having a lovely fruity beverage. And Swisher and Mossberg were too late with the bum rush. I'd already been working my camera for hours. While Bill Gates bores attendees with a preview of Windows Seven, Microsoft's latest attempt to annoy the majority of computer users, you can enjoy the snapshots I took. Among the nerdspotting: Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Max Levchin of Slide. More »

6:46 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Owen Thomas
3,977 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: When all was said and done, what holds up is the fact that the coverage of D6 by Owen Thomas was yesterday selected as being the "Best News" to be found on the whole damn net. ([www.thewholedamnnet.com]) If that honor more »

party report

Wired celebrates 15 years of turning a cult into a culture (and back again)

MIDTOWN WEST — "You're a normal person," Wired editor Chris Anderson asked me at Wired's 15th anniversary party last night in New York. "What do you make of all this?" He nodded his head toward the four corners of the roof top, crowded with the Wired set. In response, I said something about the thick-rimmed black frames and all the scarves. But for reading-comprehension points, I should have said I felt like I was in the midst of a cult. Because that's what Conde Nast's Wired is all about, Anderson and Wired cofounder Louis Rossetto told us in their speeches: turning the cult of technology into a culture, but keeping it as fervent as a cult. That and covers of a nude Jenna Fischer and LonelyGirl15 in bed, of course. Below, photos of the faithful. More »

8:40 AM on Tue May 20 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,667 views, 5 comments

Latest by Alaska Miller: How do I get an image to work, dammit. That's it, I'm giving up commenting for another month. more »

cubicle culture

Googlers in Taiwan move into new office, could open a day care

Google's Taipei office used to be on floor 37 of the Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest towers. After a big move, it's now on floor 73. Flickr user tempofeng attended the move-in party and uploaded shots so the rest of us could marvel at the pace with which Google's kindergarten-themed offices march across the globe. The full gallery is embedded below. More »

7:00 AM on Tue May 20 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
1,341 views, 4 comments

geeks gone wild

Bertram Capital borrows Benchmark jet for Cabo San Lucas trip

How awesome is the private-equity business? Private-jet awesome. That's the message that Bertram Capital vice president Michael Chang likely hoped to send to friends when he posted an album of photos to Facebook from his firm's trip to Cabo San Lucas. Slightly less awesome reality: Bertram had to borrow the jet from Benchmark Capital, and investors who put money in Bertram may not be that impressed with the firm's goofy display of extravagance. Selections from the photos, which show Bertram executives behaving like high-schoolers on a museum field trip: More »

2:00 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,969 views, 7 comments

Latest by dingdongditch: @mattearle: You guys hiring? :D more »

party report

Photos from Sarah Lacy's book party

Web 2.0 was hot last night. And I mean the kind of heat determined not by Technorati rank, but by the thermometer. Despite the stifling weather, San Francisco's Web stars turned out for a party Sarah Lacy threw for her new book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good at Otis off Union Square. The hole-in-the-wall, two-story bar couldn't handle the crowd, which spilled out on Maiden Lane. Slide CEO Max Levchin, the star of the book, stopped by with fiancé Nellie Minkova to congratulate Lacy, and then immediately left. Runner-up Jay Adelson, whom Levchin beat on page count, stayed longer, as did Twitter's Ev Williams, who came with his wife, Sara Morishige. Also in the crowd: August Capital VC David Hornik, who didn't even rate a mention in the index, despite inviting Lacy to his exclusive Lobby conference. A gallery of photos, after the jump: More »

1:00 PM on Fri May 16 2008
By Owen Thomas
3,059 views, 12 comments

Latest by ahaislip: That's a great picture of the little lady and I, thanks for running it! more »

party report

The future of Jonathan Zittrain (and how to stop it)

Really, I wasn't trying to be posh for the book party Arianna Huffington threw Saturday for Oxford scholar Jonathan Zittrain and his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It." I pulled up to Larry Ellison's Pacific Heights manse in a black Town Car because that's the only vehicle I was able to flag down in North Beach. Huffington, the pundit turned blog mogul, greeted me at the door and extracted a promise of my best behavior before allowing me in. (One wonders what these people think my worst behavior might be, and if they realize how tempting living down to their expectations is.)

Stanlee Gatti, the former San Francisco arts commissioner, produced the event, which drew a crowd mixed with the Valley elite, San Francisco politicos, a gaggle of YouTubers, and oddball geek pals of Zittrain. Oh, and some grubby hacks like yours truly. Melanie Ellison, the romance novelist and wife of Oracle CEO Larry, went to high school with Zittrain, it turns out. That's the kind of it's-a-small-world connection the local press corps loves to make a big deal about. But even if Zittrain didn't have this chance connection to the Valley's movers and shakers, I'd think he'd be drawing attention from its inner circle anyway. More »

1:20 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,141 views, 5 comments

Latest by Rachel Marsden: Jetzt stereotypieren Sie Deutsch. Und mich. :) more »

cubicle culture

The 10 worst workspaces in tech

We've toured the top 10 workspaces in tech. Now, we've gone back to Office Snapshots to find the 10 worst. What makes them so bad? Some offend with exposed fluorescent lights, gray cubicles and a dystopian corporate sheen. But others, with their pseudo-hip graffiti, kindergarten toys and plastic decorations — all in a desperate attempt to seem "Internet-y" — come off even worse. We'll start with Yahoo's New York digs. More »

6:00 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
183,991 views, 38 comments

Latest by Danny Mann: i'm not sure it counts as "tech" although it is a website, costar's corporate hq offices in bethesda are pretty horrible. you know you're in trouble when "$.25 soda/water" is a selling point in the interview process... more »

10 worst workspaces

Mozilla's Toronto office

Mozilla
Most people who work on Mozilla's products don't get paid. Actual employees in Mozilla's Toronto office have it much worse. (Photos by menros)


Next: Mahalo

7:59 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
25,725 views, 1 comment

Latest by Monster Chalk: Wow, this solidifies the suicide theories in these companies. Because after seeing mozilla's offices I feel the need to off myself. more »

10 worst workspaces

Mahalo

Mahalo
Mahalo founder and CEO Jason Calacanis not only pays his "guides" between $30,000 and $35,000 a year, he also houses them in what appears to be a poorly lit, post-apocalyptic strip mall. (Photos by Conrad)


Next: Google

7:59 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
19,893 views, 1 comment

Latest by Tator Tot: Following Jason on Twitter is annoying, I had to cancel all of the useless alerts I received from him every 10 minutes. more »

10 worst workspaces

Google

Google
We listed the Googleplex as on of the top 10 workspaces in tech because of its amenities. But with its kindergarten campus color scheme, lava lamps, scooters, and ball pool, Google's headquarters often seem designed to to hide its most prevalent feature: gray cubicles. Anything to keep the drones from remembering that they're just one out of the corporation's 16,800 employees, we suppose. (Photos by titaniumdreads, emerce, tantek, revdancatt and yoz)


Next: Microsoft

7:59 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
24,312 views, Comment

10 worst workspaces

Microsoft

Microsoft
Microsoft's world headquarters in Redmond, Washington go the other way. Welcome to the Borg cube. No talking. (Photos by taguri and ilikeyesterday)


Next: LinkedIn

7:59 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
21,442 views, 1 comment

Latest by n/a: Hmm 4 pictures, NONE of which represents the average softie experience. The first one looks like it is one of the customer lounges in Bldg 20.Second looks like the reception of the Executive Briefing Center.3rd looks like a conference somewhere, might more »

10 worst workspaces

Jajah

Jajah
The poor souls at Internet phone company, Jajah. No one should have to suffer through so much purple outside of Sunnyvale. Also, when does corporate graffiti get added to ThingsWhitePeopleLIke.com? (Photos by Jajah)


Next: Facebook

7:59 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
13,777 views, Comment

10 worst workspaces

Facebook

Facebook
Food wrappers everywhere and a little smelly — Facebook's offices remind me of my sophomore hall. Except instead of drunks vandalizing the place, Zuckerberg paid a kid to go at the walls with a spraycan. This was done to reinforce Facebook's vibrant, youthful culture by ensuring any visiting adults would rather gouge their eyeballs out before ever returning. (Photos by Outer Edge Studio, fcb, eston and cavemonkey50)


Next: DoubleClick

7:59 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
19,331 views, Comment

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