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Want to be the next Anne Wojcicki? Money Magazine has a helpful guide to landing a billionaire spouse. [Money]
Top Ten Rules for a Top Ten List
NICK DOUGLAS — There are two types of top ten lists: the ones on Letterman, and, well, funny ones. The latter is neither. Instead, it's ten real rules for making attention-getting top ten lists.
NICK DOUGLAS — There are two types of top ten lists: the ones on Letterman, and, well, funny ones. The latter is neither. Instead, it's ten real rules for making attention-getting top ten lists.
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web 2.0 con
Welcome to the big Con: How the Web 2.0 Summit works
For the rest of the week, we'll be reporting from the second annual Web 2.0 Summit, organized by O'Reilly Media and hosted by John Battelle. Before we start, here's a guide to this conference. More »
valleyspeak
Valleyspeak: "When the time is right" and three more ways to not say a thing
"At Blu-ray backer LG's annual dealer show, a previously announced LG Blu-ray player was nowhere to be found. LG product development director Tim Alessi had this to say: 'we will provide an announcement when the time is right.'" — Slashdot More »
techcrunch
How to get covered by TechCrunch: Learn a party trick
Every startup employee and publicist asks at one point, "How do I get covered by tech business blogs like TechCrunch?" The answer: Act like the photo startup Zooomr. More »
ask valleywag
How to get rich off dot-coms in six to eight weeks
A loyal reader-commenter, "That Chinese Broad," asks Valleywag: More »
how-to
How to survive the Valley: Notes for entrepreneurs and work-at-homers
Hey, Silicon Valley doesn't really make you soft. Four articles explain how to deal with the hardships of various Valley lifestyles. More »
wired
Loose Wires: Industry of Cool
- Missed out on every significant Valleywag post since June? Forbes writer Erika Brown wraps up the creep of "cool" into Silicon Valley. By finishing with a quote from Almost Famous, she's won me over. [Forbes]
- In yet another how-to, a blogger names five things your new business shouldn't waste money on. [Instigator Blog]
- Ex-Facebook employee Noah Kagan reviews a book about the rise of PayPal. Recommendation: read it. [OK Dork]
- Hahahahahaexplosivebatteries. [Blaugh]
- Rocketboom's correspondent reports from the Wired Nextfest, where weird actually means cool. [Rocketboom]
how-to
Top Top 10s: How to win at Digg, design, and business
- #4 from Top 10 Lies told to Naive Artists and Designers: ""Well, we aren't sure if we want to use you yet, but leave your material here so I can talk to my partner." [PhotoRavlik]
- #8 from 10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page: "Make up outrageous statistics that you have not researched." [SEO Blackhat]
- Myth #9 from Top Ten Geek Business Myths: "Having no competition is a good thing." [Rondam Ramblings]
eric schmidt
Chaos theory: How to tell if a Google deal means anything
We already know why Google announces so many useless partnerships, or at least one fringe benefit for the company, which is to signify that everyone is on its side, not Yahoo's or Microsoft's. Now Fortune Magazine reiterates: "Working with Google and grumbling about it is quite in fashion." There are so many deals and rumors of deals out there, how can anyone tell which deserve attention? Easy: Which exec made 'em? More »
tech support
Oh my god! You can fix my e-mail!
Techies' frustration at people asking for free tech support is so common that now it's a t-shirt. Because explaining why you can maintain a million-item database but you can't fix your friend's e-mail is such a pain, someone else does it for you in the Daily Princetonian. A Com Sci major writes: More »
how-to
Valley trick #2: You can survive without owning the dot-com
Online branding is more sophisticated than the old dot-com days (when, for example, fishing company Zapata moved into Internet media just because it owned zap.com), thanks to Google rank and word-of-mouth marketing. It's still brave to launch a site using any address other than "sitename.com," but several popular sites do just fine without. More »
valleyspeak
How to talk good: Three words to lose from your vocab, one to add
A Silicon Valley vocabulary is like a litterbox: if you don't clean it out now and then, it gets clumped up stinks up the house. Here are three words to drop this minute: More »
flacks
Don't be a flack: Tips for PR workers from the journalists who hate them
Today a flack from public relations firm SS PR sent me yet another piece of spam following up an e-mail pitch I never asked for, proving that PR folks need some guidance in how to avoid being "that annoying flack" that journalists and business development workers gossip about at the bar. Because by pleasing journalists, you don't just help them — you help yourself. More »
how-to
How to be a Silicon Valley cynic
You're still "post-modern"? Dude, that's so five ideologies ago. Don't worry, take this crash course in Silicon Valley cynicism and no one will know you're not a quasi-meta-pomo-pseudohipster just like the rest of us.- Point out every joy in life as a sign of "bubble excess." No one gets credit for calling "bubble" if the house band is the reanimated bodies of the Beatles. That's why you must point out everything — a giant rocking horse, a rooftop party, any in-office snacks more elaborate than a bag of stale Cheetos — as a sign that the whole industry has gotten wildly out of control and is due for an earth-shattering crash.
- Refer ironically to "Web 2.0." If anyone asks you what it means, mutter something about pastel colors, rounded corners, and Ajax. Smirk while you are doing so, to show that pastel boxes are FUNNY AS HELL, but you're too cool to smile. (And smiling causes laugh lines that make you look old.)
burning man
Arson, for one: 10 reasons not to hire a Burner
Business 2.0 Magazine thinks you should recruit employees at Burning Man. They're wrong. More »
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