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"She's got legs, she knows how to use them"
BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, in Israel for a conference, is feeling the heat, and this time not from a conference audience. Tipsters, don't fail us now: pics or it didn't happen!
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Chadrick loves Sarah, Amanda, Diana, and Sarah -- and thinks you will, too
If only you people would stop clicking on posts about Julia Allison and Meghan Asha, you would make Metaversatility biz-dev guy Chadrick Baker very happy. "Please, please for all that is good and is right in the world," Baker beseeches us in an email, "please stop reporting on nitwits." Below, the "smart, attractive geeky entrepreneurial type girls" Chadrick thinks we should be writing about instead. Who's your favorite? Vote for her in our poll. More »
Attention Gina Valo fans: Did you know Valo, the Googler who also wears the Miss Michigan beauty crown, plays the fiddle? And can dance the Bombshell Stomp? And that her career goal is to become an "independent strategy consultant and social entrepreneur"? Neither did we. Thanks, Chris311. I'm sure Valo appreciates the conversation fodder you just gave 16,000 lonely Googlers. [Valleywag Comments]
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Miss Michigan's Googler mugshot
Here's Gina Valo, Miss Michigan and Google employee. You'll notice she's dropped the bright red lipstick and caked-on foundation she wore in the beauty pageant picture we posted before. And that it's a huge improvement. "Clearly," the tipster who forwarded us this photo tells us, "the most important tip you'll receive today: Gina Valo is hot." Take solace, Valley geeks. Even if you worked at the Googleplex, this is as close as you'd get to Miss Michigan.
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Meet Google's Miss Michigan, Gina Valo
No, Googlers aren't talking about Microsoft's Sunnyvale raid. But they're totally thrilled to discuss the new Miss Michigan, Googler Gina Valo, 24. The former state champ, Kirsten Haglund, just won the Miss America contest, elevating one-time runner-up Valo to the top spot locally. We weren't able to Google much on Valo, but the Pageant News Bureau reports that all of this year's Miss Michigan contestants were "sweet, downright yummy." Sounds like a good bunch of U.S. Americans to me.
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How laden with pulchritude was the floor of Moose's last Friday, when we sent off Natali Del Conte? Check the shoes. What's even sexier? The stock options attached to some of this mod-shod squad. For you shoe fetishists out there, who wore what:
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Ohmigod, shoes -- attached to women, even
How laden with pulchritude was the floor of Moose's last Friday, when we sent off Natali Del Conte? Check the shoes. What's even sexier? The stock options attached to some of this mod-shod squad. For you shoe fetishists out there, who wore what:
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geeks gone wild
By day, Ben Ling is a red-hot property in Silicon Valley for his brains. But in San Francisco's nightclubs, he's a red-hot property for his killer bod. Check out the engineer as he dances at Club Asia in this June 2006 video. His fans are shoving dollars down his briefs, almost as eagerly as Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg. More »
Facebook's Ben Ling shakes highly portable thing
By day, Ben Ling is a red-hot property in Silicon Valley for his brains. But in San Francisco's nightclubs, he's a red-hot property for his killer bod. Check out the engineer as he dances at Club Asia in this June 2006 video. His fans are shoving dollars down his briefs, almost as eagerly as Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg. More »
snacky or flacky
Not quite refusing to pander with pictures of Yahoo hottie
We're getting requests for another Snacky or Flacky contest. You know, the one where we objectified some of Silicon Valley's brightest public relations stars. You people are sick. Can't you tell that we at Valleywag have moved beyond such exploitation? This space is for honoring the hard work of PR professionals, like Heather Meeker of Yahoo, pictured here not wearing a shirt. More »
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Valley geeks vote on their own unfulfilled libidos
New voting site Dig a Silicon Valley Girl has reached the pinnacle of loser-generated content. It makes the implicit explicit — the sex-starved id of the male-dominated Valley made tangible in a thoroughly useless, if entertainingly revealing site. DSVG recycles the social voting of Digg, mixes it with rating site HotorNot, and, we're sad to say, mixes in a thorough helping of Valleywag's archives, minus the social critique. Now lonely geeks can vote for their juvenile obsessions in public, rather than leaving juvenile comments across the Web, tittering in whispers at the next Web 2.0 event, or entertaining themselves singlehandedly to tech-news podcasts. There's only one higher purpose this site can serve: Becoming the destination for all the frustrated prepubescents who clog up the comments of sites trying to cover significant, breaking news ... like the wardrobes of videobloggers, for example.
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In your face! BusinessWeek columnist throws drink at TechCrunch editor
The Lobby, David Hornik's Hawaii funconference, may have no agenda — but a lot is happening all the same. One delicious incident recounted to us: TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington, who'd previously wooed BusinessWeek columnist and Valley fox Sarah Lacy onto his TechCrunch40 judges panel, apparently said something that made her throw a drink in his face. That's the first thing I've heard about The Lobby so far that actually made me wish I was there. Update: We hear the glass was empty. Okay, so make that two wishes: That we were there, and that Lacy wasn't so quick to sling back her booze.
Lucy Hood, Jamba CEO and president of Fox Mobile Entertainment, has quit. Though no future plans have been announced, we suspect she'd fit right in at the Fox Business Network, alongside Hewlett-Packard alum Carly Fiorina. Heck, she could make it an intracompany transfer. [Silicon Alley Insider]
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Carly Fiorina goes from foxy CEO to Fox newsreader
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina has signed on to be a Fox Business Network contributor. According to the press release, Fiorina achieved the highest rate of innovation in company history. How they measure that metric is a mystery to us; after all, shortly after Fiorina left, the company engaged in some highly innovative leak-detection practices, leading to the resignation of several board members. But never mind that. The only stat that will likely matter to Fox's Joe-Sixpack audience, sadly, is how short her skirt is.
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Party at the New York City Googleplex!
We're getting live reports on who's making it past the velvet rope at Google's New York party. The bash, held in Google's West Chelsea offices at 76 Ninth Avenue, has already kicked up a fuss. Google's controlling-but-not-that-bright PR people have tried to limit the guest list to consumer and fashion reporters, figuring they'd be more likely to critique the buffet and less likely to ask pesky questions about the search engine's business practices. So far, they've had mixed results. Here's who we've heard has showed up so far — and who's been barred at the door. More »
wired
More than four decades after the invention of the plasma display, Wired Science, which is debuting October 3 on your local PBS station, arms vlog hot yet approachable host Ziya Tong with a circular saw to explain how these new-fangled screens work. "This," explains communications major Ziya , "is the shape of the future." Based on the name of Tong's segment — "Exploded View"— she'll continue to senselessly cut up and smash gadgets to teach the masses about the guts of today's technologies. All the while, she'll be pulling on the easily plucked heartstrings of hard-up geeks. It may be gimmicky junk science, but given PBS's reach, she's sure to break more nerd hearts than Soledad O'Brien did in the '90s, when the TV personality, now a CNN anchor, made a name for herself talking tech to the limited audience of MSNBC's "The Site."
Ziya Tong to break gadgets, geek hearts
More than four decades after the invention of the plasma display, Wired Science, which is debuting October 3 on your local PBS station, arms vlog hot yet approachable host Ziya Tong with a circular saw to explain how these new-fangled screens work. "This," explains communications major Ziya , "is the shape of the future." Based on the name of Tong's segment — "Exploded View"— she'll continue to senselessly cut up and smash gadgets to teach the masses about the guts of today's technologies. All the while, she'll be pulling on the easily plucked heartstrings of hard-up geeks. It may be gimmicky junk science, but given PBS's reach, she's sure to break more nerd hearts than Soledad O'Brien did in the '90s, when the TV personality, now a CNN anchor, made a name for herself talking tech to the limited audience of MSNBC's "The Site."
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Tech behemoth Microsoft has signed, alas, not signed Australian beauty queen Erin McNaught as an IT spokeswoman this week, contrary to prior reports that she was going to promote the "sexy" image of IT professionals. McNaught, known to the Australian press as McNaughty, does have a few tech qualifications — more than many other beauty queens, anyway. She currently hosts the Aussie gaming show "Cyber Shack" and was a student at Queensland Institute of Technology before she left to pursue a modeling career. It turns out, however, that she was just a last-minute replacement speaker at a Microsoft-sponsored conference. Too bad. We were anxiously waiting to see how she would take on Google's right-wing Australian spokesman, Rob Shilkin.
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If you're flexible and like to switch teams, Facebook wants you
Says commenter The Default Attorney about Facebook recruiter Meagan Marks, one of the Valley foxes we featured recently:I'm sorry, who does she work for again? I kind of tuned out when she started saying how flexible her position was and how she switches teams all the time.T.D.A., you're nasty and, to be honest, we like that around here.
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What is it about the women Facebook hires? I'm sure they're all brilliant, but it needs to be said: The hot social network has equally hot personnel. Randi Jayne, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, finally outs herself on video as a Facebook employee in this clip. But the video doesn't do her justice — as you might have noticed in her "Dontcha" iPhone video, she's distressingly cute. Her colleague, Meagan Marks, gives a sales pitch for working at Facebook that's best appreciated with the mute button on. And spokesperson Brandee Barker? Alas, she's not captured in this video, but you can check her out in this AllThingsD.com video. Or just take our word for it: Total babe. More »
The flaming-red hotties of Facebook
What is it about the women Facebook hires? I'm sure they're all brilliant, but it needs to be said: The hot social network has equally hot personnel. Randi Jayne, sister of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, finally outs herself on video as a Facebook employee in this clip. But the video doesn't do her justice — as you might have noticed in her "Dontcha" iPhone video, she's distressingly cute. Her colleague, Meagan Marks, gives a sales pitch for working at Facebook that's best appreciated with the mute button on. And spokesperson Brandee Barker? Alas, she's not captured in this video, but you can check her out in this AllThingsD.com video. Or just take our word for it: Total babe. More »
