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Children's book explains surly IT people

Well, no it doesn't. But Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk, available Saturday from Amazon, is a must for the black-clad Unix bigots who keep things running at your office. (Stupid ethics-in-journalism disclosure: My wife works at Splunk. Complaints to port 514.)

9:31 PM on Fri Apr 11 2008
By Paul Boutin
912 views, 7 comments

i hate it here

Olympic torch gets obligatory rickrolling


San Francisco city officials, hoping to avoid the hippies, began today's torch run up the Embarcadero in front of the Splunk office and its large scale sound system.

4:23 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Paul Boutin
1,190 views, 4 comments

silicon valley users guide

How to write for your company's blog



I recently reported on blogging secrets of the stars. But as a Valley worker, you may end up blogging on your company's site, not your own. Corporate blogging is very different from personal blogging, regardless of what The 250 will tell you for a small fee. So I created this stack of product-managerese slides on how to write a company blog worth reading.

1:20 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Paul Boutin
3,391 views, 15 comments

feuds

Fake Steve to face angry mob at book reading

Yes, tonight's the night. Dan Lyons as Fake Steve Jobs is meeting Segway-polo fanatic Real Steve Wozniak for an Options reading at the Menlo Park Keplers at 7:30. This is a party that we just can't miss. Some of us anyway. My boss is too cheap to let me expense a Virgin America flight cross-country. Owen "Mr. Bigglesworth" Thomas will be there, purring away. So will Megan McCarthy, the self-proclaimed "Princess of the Valley." Finally, very special correspondent Paul Boutin (boo-TAHN) will be there with his wife, Christina Noren, whom voters on Dig a Silicon Valley Girl have deemed the prettiest girl in the area. You don't want to miss that! Hit the jump to see what Fake Steve had to say the last time Woz crashed his party. More »

3:28 PM on Thu Nov 1 2007
By Jordan Golson
571 views, 2 comments

Latest by Megan McCarthy: For the record, it wasn't "Princess of the Valley." It was "Valleywag Princess," and it's a correction from someone who called me the "Valleywag Queen," which is, in reality, Owen's title. more »

silicon valley tool

Is Splunk CEO Michael Baum a hero or zero?

Meet Michael Baum, the CEO of recently funded enterprise software company Splunk. Is he a hero for raising so much money at a splendid valuation, when all the Valley's buzz is on profitless consumer plays? Or is he deserving of our Silicon Valley Tool award for being a colossal jerk? Our commenters are leaning strongly towards the latter. More »

2:04 PM on Thu Sep 20 2007
By Megan McCarthy
1,326 views, 6 comments

venture capital

The battle to plunk bucks in Splunk

The Valley's venture capitalists fall into and out of love with enterprise software. Today, with Facebook and other social networks the talk of the town, it's hard for the makers of boring IT products to get attention. But not, it seems, money. Splunk, in a lightning-fast fundraising effort, has pulled in $25 million in a third round of financing, bringing the company's valuation up to $120 million. Splunk's software analyzes server logs, and in a nod to the collaborative aspects of Web 2.0, lets sysadmins share and discuss the results to figure out if odd patterns are signs of system failures or security breaches. Think of it as a Google for hardcore nerds, but one they're actually willing to pay for. And that, in turn, made Ignition Venture Partners, a Seattle-area venture-capital firm, willing to pay for a stake in the San Francisco company. In every investment, there are winners and losers, though. More »

4:09 PM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Owen Thomas
2,642 views, 21 comments

Latest by seeminglyhere: Oh ISA you are too too funny. Had a few more for the GHOSTWRITER with the nice vocabulary. 6. Get a better dictionary. Not sure that f-word is a real word. 7. Again go for the Sony, the Bose suck. 8. Known model more »