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Leah Culver gives Kyle Shank the cupcake treatment
Former Uncov guy and Persai CEO Kyle Shank, at center, recovers from an unsolicited cupcake smearing by Pownce's Leah Culver. The attack, likely motivated by Uncov accomplice Ted Dziuba's frequent gibes directed at Culver, took place at Flickr's fourth birthday party. Flickr's Cal Henderson, right, is said to have served as Culver's accomplice. Speaking of, can anyone confirm whether Henderson and Culver are dating? The two were inseparable at SXSW. If so, snaps to Culver: We hear Henderson's website is highly scalable. (Photo by magerleagues)
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Don't FAIL to meet Ted Dziuba at Moose's
What better way to celebrate a week of turning down TechCrunch job offers and reducing its writers to obscene Twitters than drinking at Moose's? Persai's Ted Dziuba is our guest of honor for tonight's Valleywag Friday. Read on for the rest of the calendar: More »
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Persai hands-on test returns 1
Have you declared RSS bankruptcy because you can't keep up with your feeds? I spent a week hammering on Persai's private beta for Slate. Despite the product's ties to smartass startup-review site Uncov, I couldn't honestly insert a "fail" joke into my writeup. The aspect that will most divide users: You don't subscribe to individual feeds or sites with Persai. You create an "interest" and get articles and posts that match, sort of like searching Google News. Except Persai also lets you click a button that says, "I hate this. Don't ever show me anything like it again." Finally, a filter for Obama fever.
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Uncov kids snub the big bloggers
Robert Scoble and TechCrunch are among the big names not invited to test-drive news-filtering service Persai, which launched this week as a private beta. If you read Valleywag obsessively, you may know Persai is the full-time project of the mean, mean kids behind Web 2.0 smackdown site Uncov. Did they leave Arrington and Scoble out as a PR strategy, I asked? Was the idea to build a groundswell of online coverage before appearing on TechCrunch? Were they seeking more technical reviewers? "No," CEO Kyle Shank replied. "It was just spite."
Persai, the startup from the same guys who launched snarky tech blog Uncov, has launched an invitation-only beta. Recent screenshots don't show much change from the ones we saw last December: Google News, with a bit more orange. Fail? [Epicenter]
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Screenshots from Persai, Uncov guys' startup
The guys behind startup-trashing site Uncov have been working on their own company for the last few months now. It's called Persai, and it's some sort of machine-learning recommendation thingy — I don't know, I tune out whenever they start talking about it, and only pay attention again once they start repeating 4chan catchphrases. Anyway, a beta tester (where's my invite, Kyle?) leaked us a screenshot of the product in action. See it below, and feel free to mock.More »
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