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Temptress of Silicon Valley shuts down useless site
Earlier this year, Leah Culver appeared on the cover of a tech magazine blowing an enormous pink bubble. But the shrill-voiced San Francisco programmer no longer desires fame — even the modest sort afforded Silicon Valley's microcelebrities. The turnabout seems odd, considering how aggressively she once courted notoriety. More »

2:00 PM on Mon Dec 1 2008
By Owen Thomas
5,193 views, 12 comments

Most discussed SFJoe: I'm going to see how many times I can drop the phrase, "relentless technosexuality" into everyday conversation. I may even more »
we read twitter so you don't have to
Leah Culver has been wronged, totally wronged!
Pownce cutie-in-chief Leah Culver gets a lot of hate from Valley boys. Guys, don't hate her because she's beautiful. Love her because she suffers, just like you. First at the hands of a cheating man, second at the hands of the Valleywag scumbucket who posts her unpublished 2 A.M. tweet about it: More »

9:45 AM on Tue Nov 25 2008
By Paul Boutin
10,001 views, 44 comments

Most discussed SFJoe: Beautiful? She's girl-next-door cute, no doubt. 'Beautiful' seems to be a stretch. But then, I seem to be the only more »
geek love
VentureBeat blogger writes about girlfriend's company
Leah Culver, the ever-romantic founder of file-sharing site Pownce, does not think anything should keep two lovers apart, least of all work. True! And if she wants to date MG Siegler, the handsome VentureBeat blogger, more power to her. Brian Solis's lens captured the two sticking quite close to each other at a party for MySpace Music last night. But shouldn't Siegler, rather than Valleywag, disclose the relationship to his readers before he writes flatteringly about Pownce and quotes Culver in an article? (Photo by Brian Solis/Bub.blicio.us)

2:20 PM on Fri Nov 7 2008
By Owen Thomas
3,876 views, 19 comments

Most discussed Figaro: What is she doing? IS she trying to fuck her way to the bottom? At least in the past she more »
great moments in pr
Kevin Rose runs from the crowd
Why is Kevin Rose on a publicity binge? In the past two months, the founder of headline-voting site Digg has garnered two magazine covers. There he is, with a smoldering leer on local San Francisco magazine 7x7. The look reminds everyone why Diggnation cohost Alex Albrecht once said that Rose, a prolific dater, has "plowed through everyone in town." For Inc., Rose participated in a wacky crowd shoot which echoed the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night." It's obvious why Rose is a hot commodity: Write about him, and traffic to your magazine's website will soar. (Will he sell print copies? I doubt Digg users visit newsstands.) More »

2:00 PM on Wed Oct 29 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,407 views, 8 comments

Latest by D IS FOR DENTATA: Owen, I love how you parse this one back down to earth. :-) more »
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Yahoo Hack Day restores API access between ex-lovers Cal Henderson and Leah Culver
For quippy superstar engineer Cal Henderson, the fellow who has kept Flickr from crashing all these years, attendance at Yahoo's Hack Day developer event was all but mandatory, since he works there. But what attracted Pownce cofounder Leah Culver, Henderson's ex-girlfriend? A Valleywag tipster's spy camera caught the two of them hard at work, laptops side by side. All business, clearly — until it came time for the awkward parting hug, and perhaps more. "Looked like they were kissing in the pic with him holding her, but can't say it looked very enthusiastic or romantic," our tipster analyzes. Full photos below, so you, too, can interpret the body language in the comments. More »

9:00 AM on Sat Sep 13 2008
By Owen Thomas
5,951 views, 20 comments

Most discussed Lizstless: This is why I keep telling my SF tech friends to move to NY. No one cares about them and more »
Ariel Waldman is totes single Our apologies to Ms. Ariel Waldman — she is not dating Cal Henderson: "I need dates — stop ruining my game, yo," she Twitters. Good, because that would make for some awkward meetings at Pownce, where she spends time as a community manager working with cofounder Leah Culver, a former Henderson paramour. This also means that polytalented Flickr code jock Cal Henderson is probably available. Probably. "How did Valleywag miss the girl I was actually there with?" he later asked us. MORE »

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Flickr's Cal Henderson dumped by Technology Review covergirl Leah Culver
We've been remiss in informing you of this: Cal Henderson, the eminently scalable Flickr engineer, and Leah Culver, the shrill-voiced cofounder of Pownce, San Francisco's favorite way to share MP3 files while evading copyright cops, broke up some time ago. (We hear it wasn't exactly his idea.) But don't feel sorry for Henderson, or Culver. She has no shortage of suitors — including, it seems, Technology Review editor-in-chief Jason Pontin, who was taken enough with Culver to put her on his magazine's latest cover. Pontin's married, but a man can dream, can't he? Sorry, Jason: We now hear Culver's hooked up with a Googler. (Photo of Henderson by magerleagues)

4:40 PM on Thu Jul 24 2008
By Owen Thomas
4,247 views, 16 comments

Latest by inkvision: Wow. Geeks here sure are surly. Methinks they all are tasting the sour grapes that comes of never getting even more »
bubble 2.0
The microbubble in microblogging
If there is a Web 2.0 bubble, it is surely in microblogging, a field popularized by Twitter.. Countless startups are thriving on the myth that sharing yourself online is too hard. Pownce cofounder Leah Culver graces the cover of MIT's alumni magazine. San Francisco's most self-involved Webheads can't stop gabbing about FriendFeed, which, as our intern Alaska Miller smartly explained to his mother, is a place where people who are really obsessed with the Internet can talk to others of like mind. And then there's Plurk, the much-mocked Twitter clone, which has drawn such derision that Web hipsters made up a company and claimed it had bought Plurk. More »

1:00 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,985 views, 16 comments

Latest by MichelleMMM: For there to be a bubble at all, doesn't there need to be vast numbers of adopters? more »
superficial
Pownce cofounder Leah Culver explains how to be beautiful and get taken seriously
Think it's hard being a woman in technology? Apparently it's even harder to be an attractive one. That's right, pretty people are rising above the prejudice that unless they look like Steve Wozniak, they can't hack it: More »

1:20 PM on Fri Jun 13 2008
By Jackson West
7,210 views, 45 comments
Plurk, yet another microblogging platform, hailed by The 250 Not happy with updating your friends publicly via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pownce and Jaiku (and feeding all those updates into FriendFeed)? Then, um, try Plurk, a startup which declares, "We've taken the time, the complexity, and the deep introspection required out of blogging." Also, too, the irony. [The Inquisitr] MORE »

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