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To-Do
To-Do this weekend: DevHouse and Startup School
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Flacks
TicketOnEbayGate: The seller speaks
Another chapter to the scandal that rocked a nation (wherein Valleywag actually used a PR-pitched story! OMG WTF): Another pair of passes sold (a $3,000 Buy-it-Now purchase), and the auction was confirmed as real but PR-spun. More » -
Alan Ralsky
DOJ goes nuts when hackers ruin its "squeeze the Spam King" plan
It's not in the papers yet — damn those lead times — but a media frenzy is frothing around the fresh meat of the Spam King's arrest. (The backstory: Alan Ralsky, pictured, is in the DOJ's hands, and they're grilling him for info on other hackers and spammers in a plea-bargain session.) Ralsky's quickly becoming a useless pressure point for the DOJ as reporters blow up the story, alerting everyone in the spam and hacking world and sending them scuttling out of sight. Major media contact for the hacker community, MemeHacker, sends this chat log from a conversation with another hacker: More » -
Web 2.0
Naming the babies: Name your startup after a Finn
After he met some Finns, SuperHappyDevHouse organizer David Weekly pointed out to me that Finnish names are "very Web 2.0." It's true! The list of Finnish names (with pronunciations!) is a goldmine of Web 2.0 monikers and an invaluable resource for any startup. After all, Web 2.0 sites like Riya are already banking on the cuteness of a first name, and Ikea's been naming its furniture after Swedish locations for years. More » -
Myspace
Spammers and ex-cons, not Tom, made MySpace, says journalism student
Far from the innovative leader the media treats them as, Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe were just "cabin boys" for MySpace, says blogger Trent Lapinski. The 19-year-old journalism student blows open the scandalous story behind MySpace — the story every major paper missed. The makers of MySpace included an ex-con and a whole family of insider traders. More » -
Alan Ralsky
Scoop: DOJ jails Spam King! Alan Ralsky might rat out a massive hacker / spammer network
Local hacker "Memehacker" IMed in with a scoop on Alan Ralsky, the famed "Spam King" covered by the Observer and the Detroit News. Here's the breaking story:
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Facebook
Facebook spams MIT CS department
Where did Tom's boys go? A reader at MIT says MySpace is a no-show (despite a Wednesday tip), but Facebook's shopping for CS majors. More » -
Snacky Or Flacky
Snacky or Flacky: More PR hotties
They're everywhere, they're everywhere! The pretty PR stars of the Valley keep rolling in as readers built the roster for Snacky or Flacky. E-mail Valleywag with a pic and profile of your favorite flack. Next week, we put them through a tourney to see who's the snackiest flack of them all. More » -
Confonz
ConFonz at Ad:Tech: More sex metaphors than you can shake your stick at
ConFonz is off in his own special universe this week, a world of orgies and extreme public deviance. Before checking into rehab AND a mental clinic, he filed a report from the ongoing Ad:Tech conference that reads like the script for The Aristocrats. More » -
Sergey Brin
Sergey for prez
A reader pointed out that "Sergei" isn't necessarily a wrong way to spell Sergey Brin's name — the Google co-founder just goes by the "ey" spelling. But both spellings are transliterations of the Russian name "Сергей." More »
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