• lists

    BusinessWeek scrapes Techmeme for its latest list

    Loic Le Meur! Gabe Rivera! Joi Ito! Don't feel bad if you've never heard of them. BusinessWeek.com's latest 25 Most Influential People on the Web is a mashup of billionaire powerbrokers with a randomized handful of those folks you run into at that same little tech conference that happens under a different name every month. I'm guessing they left out TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to create buzz. If you don't want to click through 27 pageviews on BusinessWeek's site, here's the entire list in alphabetical order: More »

    9:00 PM on Mon Sep 29 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    7,776 views, 7 comments

    Latest by newtonke: I think it is much more the people 'behind' those people you should watch. If your a gagbillionairre, or your more »

  • lists

    The Scoble 165 -- you're not on it

    If you follow Robert Scoble at all — and you sort of have to unless your DSL is dead — you know he can't help overproliferating everything he does. While the entire staff of Vanity Fair takes months to assemble its 100 most powerful list, Fast Company's token webhead spews 165 names in one pass for his "hand-picked list of the people who provide the most interesting tech blogging/tweeting/FriendFeeding." Robert, let me put on my old Condé Nast editor's hat and redline this back to you: GREAT START, BUT PLS TELL US WHO THE FK THS PPL ARE: More »

    3:20 PM on Fri Sep 26 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    1,510 views, 16 comments

    Most discussed Scobleizer: I'm slowly updating the list with a bit about each person. more »

  • Next Establishment

    Once again, Vanity Fair leaves geeks at the kids' power table

    Preeminent among the magazine world's kingmaking power lists is Vanity Fair's New Establishment, which appears in the October issue — on newsstands in L.A. and New York today, but not in the Bay Area for another six days. Silicon Valley gets similar short shrift: The names who make it there are predictable bigs like Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, or Hollywood-crossover types like Jeff Skoll, eBay's first employee turned movie producer. Walt Mossberg, now employed by New Establishment perennial Rupert Murdoch, also squeaked in. The consolation prize Vanity Fair offers: Its "Next Establishment" list, reserved for the likes of Twitter's Ev Williams. It's a marvelous piece of New York media trickery — flatter the geeks by making them feel included, but corral them into a side room so the real power brokers aren't offended by comparison. True, the "Next Establishment" suggests that these are people who might matter in the future. But in saying that, Vanity Fair's editors are also sending the message that right here, right now, its "Next" nominees are nobodies. On this year's list: More »

    1:00 PM on Wed Sep 3 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    862 views, 5 comments

    Latest by Robleh: I doubt they would put Murdoch's wife on a list of nobodies. more »

  • the 250

    Citizen journalists rush to fill Internet's shortage of A-lists

    I blame Guy Kawasaki. Ten days after the relentless listmaker joined the advisory board of Vancouver-based citizen journalism hub NowPublic, the site published a link-baiting "The 50 most influential people in New York." We've had this piece in our inboxes since Friday morning, but we couldn't figure out how to get anyone in the Valley to care about a list topped by Noah Brier and Jeff Jarvis. More interesting is me-blogger Anil Dash's take on the genre: "First and foremost, organizations create these lists to promote their own authority." Exactly. We've been pitched to do a Valleywag 100 or Valleywag 40 or whatever by consultants who crank out marketing events for a living. But they balk when we ask for a deck of playing cards emblazoned with the faces of 52 People We Want Gone.

    5:00 PM on Mon Jul 21 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    885 views, 12 comments

    Latest by raincoaster: How about a post on "Hot Girls of Valleywag?" Me! Me! Pick me! more »

  • apple

    10 iPhone apps that will drive you into Steve Jobs's clutches

    Apple's new, faster 3G iPhones go on sale in the U.S. tomorrow, but a new store where Apple will sell third-party iPhone applications opened for business today. (Something to do with when the iPhone 3G went on sale in New Zealand. Those international date lines are so confusing!) The apps mostly range from free to costing $10, and you buy them on iTunes like you would an album or a TV show. Here are ten that will crush your last remaining resistance to Apple CEO Steve Jobs's demands. More »

    Feature

    9:00 AM on Thu Jul 10 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    7,275 views, 15 comments

    Latest by jangregory: AOL Radio is pretty sweet. The sound quality is even good over Edge, but beware that incoming calls will more »

  • Online Advertising

    How Time's 50 best websites make money (if they do)

    Why is Microsoft so panicked over Google-Yahoo? Time's list of 50 best websites provides an anecdotal answer. Of the 50, 18 rely on Google ads for their income. Only one, UrbanDictionary.com, uses Microsoft ads. Yahoo doesn't fare much better — only brokering impressions for Rate My Professors and its own site on the list, Yahoo Answers. Below, find Time's entire list and how each site apparently makes its money (if it does at all — seven are run by volunteers). More »

    1:20 PM on Wed Jun 18 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    10,765 views, 8 comments

    Latest by giania: Sorry for the dupe post. Dunno what happened there. D: Rogue refresh issues, I guess. more »

  • silicon valley users guide

    Proper use of "The 250"

    "The 250" (pronounced "two-fifty") is the derogatory term used in real-life conversations — never online! — to describe the self-promoting cloud of Web 2.0 popular kids who seem to be constantly typing but rarely building value. In short, The 250 only matter to The 250. I've collected and anonymized some real-life sentences from the field to help you use The 250 authentically. More »

    2:40 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    2,745 views, 19 comments

    Latest by raincoaster: And somewhere, someone whose initials are adjacent to KB crosses one off the list and thinks "249 to go!" more »

  • silicon valley users guide

    The 250

    Not every conversation happens online. A phrase you won't find on Twitter or Technorati is The 250 — pronounced "two-fifty" — a cruelly sarcastic euphemism used in real-life conversations for the small, cliquey group of self-appointed Web 2.0 insiders who seem to spend their days blogging and Twittering about one another. The gist is that The 250 are the 250 people who matter to The 250. None of the other 6 billion people on Earth care which of The 250 are dating each other or got onto a panel at South By Southwest. I'm loathe to name names other than Valleywag editor Owen Thomas, whose site the other 249 check obsessively for mentions of themselves.

    5:47 AM on Mon Mar 17 2008
    By Paul Boutin
    9,730 views, 16 comments

    Latest by davesaunders: Same reverse-elitism used in reference to people in Toastmasters, the Rotary Club, or those meanies that didn't pick you for more »

  • i hate it here

    We're all a bunch of greedy bastards

    San Francisco is the city every manchild with a wee knowledge of Ajax and a penchant for dropping vowels from proper nouns flocks to in the hopes of striking a venture capital goldmine. It's not exactly a revelation that you're all a bunch of greedy louts, but Forbes, in what is no doubt a highly scientific study, has determined San Francisco is the country's second most avarice-riddled city — beaten only by its brethren in San Jose. It's also happens to be the most proud. Who's surprised that Oakland turns up as the sixth most wrathful — that is, gun-toting — place in the U.S.?

    12:40 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
    By Mary Jane Irwin
    1,078 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Dweezil: God, Forbes is such a shitty rag. It's amazing to me that anyone takes a single person affiliated with them more »