• 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
    11,121 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 »

  • show tunes

    Hollywood power player Randi Zuckerberg struts her stuff


    Meet Randi Jayne Zuckerberg Tworetzky, Facebook's rep in Tinseltown, who scored No. 45 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of digital power players. The newlywed, Mark's older sister, was a surprising choice — an infuriating one, to some of our tipsters — but she got the props for brokering content deals with ABC and Comcast, no small feat. Still, we're less interested in Randi Tworetzky's business dealings than in Randi Jayne's musical stylings. (If Hollywood had any sense, they would, to.) Which makes this lip dub of her singing "Going to the Chapel" utterly frustrating. Randi, we don't want to watch you mouth the words. Girl, sing out! (Video by Julia Allison) More »

    12:00 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    1,013 views, 18 comments

    Latest by mdpane: She looks EXACTLY like her brother. When the camera did a close up I thought I was staring at Mark more »

  • once you're lucky, twice you're good

    Z is for Zuckerberg, the richest of all

    Money isn't everything. Mark Zuckerberg may have the highest net worth among his generation of entrepreneurs, but the Facebook CEO only gets 21 out of 294 pages in Sarah Lacy's new Web 2.0 book, Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good. That's 16 more than his sister, nerd chanteuse Randi Jayne Zuckerberg, which tells us Lacy has her priorities all wrong. The Zuckerbergs' index page: More »

    8:20 AM on Thu May 15 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    2,156 views, 14 comments

    Latest by macbeach: @Owen: Good point. Why should she even be in the thing, considering the title? more »

  • geeks gone wild

    Facebook NSFW! Julia Allison and other pics from Randi Zuckerberg's Vegas bachelorette

    Can you imagine a photo op that Julia Allison wouldn't attend? What happens in Vegas goes instantly to Valleywag, Allison knows, and so she flew to Las Vegas to attend Randi Zuckerberg's bachelorette party. Zuckerberg, whose wig-and-sunglasses disguise did not deter the Web's paparazzi, is a budding Web video star, Facebook's marketing director, and, unlike younger brother Mark, an actual Harvard graduate. In what's surely a first, Allison, the tech-obsessed TV personality, managed not to hog the camera; she's in only one of the shots. Facebook's Meagan Marks also appears sporting what looks like a freshly acquired head wound. A slip and fall on the dance floor? Our informants are investigating. In the meantime, enjoy the evidence of Zuckerberg's bacchanal. A warning: If plastic sex toys offend your coworkers, one photo may be unsuitable for office computers. More »

    1:20 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    20,132 views, 29 comments

    Latest by Hopeless: Is it me or does Facebook employ the ugliest women in the Valley? I've also heard that Randi is a dingbat. more »

  • geeks gone wild

    Details of Randi Zuckerberg's bachelorette party in Vegas

    We hear that friends of Randi Zuckerberg, better known as nerd chanteuse Randi Jayne, are surprising the Facebook marketer with a bachelorette party in Las Vegas this weekend. The place: the Hard Rock Hotel, where they've secured two suites. (Zuckerberg is set to wed Brent Tworetzky, an associate at Shasta Ventures, in May.) The bacchanalia's expected to last all weekend, including a dinner at Tao and a night out at Rain. Who's going? More »

    12:20 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    4,036 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Owen Thomas: @sample032: And here I thought I was one of the girls. more »

  • geeks gone wild

    Randi Zuckerberg takes Manhattan (and our hearts)

    Randi Jayne Zuckerberg, the nerd chanteuse and sister of Facebook CEO Mark, visited the fair island of Manhattan last week and frankly, we'll never be the same. Zuckerberg — sorry boys, she's planning to wed in May — came to town with her mother. Notorious notoriety-possessor Julia Allison roped Zuckerberg into a meal — and one of her lip-sync videos. We haven't seen the video yet, but we're hoping wantrepreneur Allison was smart enough to hand over creative control to the vastly more talented Zuckerberg. She's excellent at show tunes. Stills from the shoot are below. More »

    11:40 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    4,088 views, 16 comments

    Latest by vulturesquadron: The '80s' thing is so lazy. MEH! more »

  • trendspotting

    New social networks fighting against ebb tide of user interest

    Social network fatigue is nothing new, at least to The 250, and VCs are finally catching on — the Starbucks social network might be the watershed moment when everyone stepped back from updating their umpteenth profile, put down the double-tall soy mocha and said to themselves, "You know, maybe we've reached the point of diminishing returns." More »

    11:20 AM on Thu Mar 20 2008
    By Jackson West
    549 views, 3 comments

    Latest by BillyShears: I've had social network fatigue for YEARS. From Friendster to Orkut to MySpace to Facebook... I'm done after Facebook, I don't more »

  • geek love

    Randi Zuckerberg to wed in two months

    Last seen bravely trying to block Julia Allison's path to a geek — her brother, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg — Randi Zuckerberg will marry her college sweetheart, Brent Tworetzky, in May. Lucky guy. As Web chanteuse "Randi Jayne," she long ago sang her way into our heart with her music video, Valleyfreude, embedded below. Update: Randi just texted my boss, "Sweet! You just saved me money on wedding invites! ;-)" More »

    1:20 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    6,513 views, 17 comments

    Latest by FiveStarEggRoll: Harry "yeah, I know it was an old post" Wang more »

  • party report

    Kevin Rose's parties bid SXSW goodbye

    I've always loved to watch Mark Cuban dance — but Tuesday night I got to see the billionaire booty-shaker up close. The venue: PureVolume Ranch in Austin, Texas. The occasion: The Bigg Digg Shindigg, South by Southwest Interactive's closing party. "You guys always picked the worst photos of me," Cuban said. Mark, as I said at Sunday's panel on gossip, I live to serve. Digg packed PureVolume's dance floor and backyard tents with hundreds of partygoers. Besides Cuban, Moby was there, as were Digg CEO Jay Adelson and cofounder Kevin Rose, iLike CEO Ali Partovi, StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp, and Automattic's Matt Mullenweg. RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser had just flown in from Florida on a private jet. But for me the most interesting person was newly hired Digger Aubrey Sabala, who put the party together in three days — after Digg had given up on the idea. More »

    4:36 AM on Wed Mar 12 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    26,431 views, Comment

  • exclusive

    "Rock Band" music video debut with Scoble and the gang

    AUSTIN, TX — Randi Jayne (née Zuckerberg) and Revision3 COO David Prager have done it again. She rewrote "Roxanne" as "Rock Band," an homage to the popular Harmonix videogame; Prager, though he didn't pair up in front of the camera with Jayne as they did in iPhone parody "Doncha," helped produce the video. In the clip below, Robert Scoble, Digg CEO Jay Adelson, Facebook fanboy Dave McClure, and media raconteur David Spark headline. They play undistinguished louts who, by playing the game, transform themselves into real rock stars. The backup singers include Jayne and Rana Sobhany, a marketer who's planning a SXSW party tonight at Six Lounge. The video: More »

    1:00 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    1,588 views, 5 comments

    Latest by OaklandTechie: This is actually damn funny. more »