Valleywag

Valleyspeak: "Not safe for coffeeshops"

Loose Wires: Redditology

• Behind the deal, volume V: How much did Wired pay for Reddit? One commenter: "If the alien waves, over 5 million." Another: "Tired: Asking how much Reddit was bought for. Wired: Buying Reddit yourself." [Reddit]
• Disclosure: Apparently Reddit cut a deal to license its voting system to Valleywag's parent company. Full disclosure: Our boss didn't know about it. Fuller disclosure: Since those Reddit guys are moving to San Francisco, if they need another roommate for an apartment, I'm looking. Just sayin'. [BusinessWeek]
• Google starts sharing ad revenue with video makers. Will that kill revenue-sharing video site Revver, or can the startup flex its power as a full-service talent agency and outshine Google? [CNet]

Yeah I bet they're exploding

Oh by the way, we figured out the future

• The future is in analyzing social networks, through the totally reliable data from MySpace. Ten points for anyone titling their doctoral study "Thanks for the add, holla at mah peeps." [NY Times]
• The future cannot get you laid. [Supr.c.ilio.us]
• Media mogul Barry Diller says the Internet will be like cable! No, shut up, we did not just say that five years ago SHUT UP SHUT UP. [NY Times]
• The Internet doesn't need us — it's a bot playground. [Wired]
• The near future, though, is about money. Christmas retailing money. And what luck, Forbes is all about money too. [Forbes]

To-do Tonight: Or TP Mike Arrington's House (He's on vacation, anyway)

• For a quarter-million partiers from in and out of San Francisco, it's Halloween in the Castro!!! Um, or maybe not. Beware, the SFPD will be cracking down on revelers tonight, so don't, don't, drunkenly hit on that sexy cop.
• Stay home and geek out — carve a Mac O'Lantern. Pictured: more Woz than you can handle.
• Enjoy one of the greatest horror films ever made. Evil Dead 2 plays tonight at the Red Vic Movie House (1727 Haight Street, SF). Showtimes are 7:15 and 9:15.
• The Zend/PHP Conference and Expo is overpriced at $1195 (one day for $650) but we think you should try to crash the Facebook After Hours party anyway. It's Halloween — go in costume. Wear footie pajamas and bring a teddy bear. Tell everyone you're founder Mark Zuckerberg and refuse to budge until someone offers you $2 billion.

Behind the deal, volume IV: Reddit cofounder talks about Wired buyout

Behind the deal, volume III: Wired buys Reddit

Behind the Acquisition, Volume II: Google buys JotSpot

Scoop: Fortune Magazine taps new managing editor

Activist coalition says Zillow.com is racist

Behind the Acquisition, Volume I: SideStep buys TravelPost

Got any bubbles? Go fish!

MingleNow: The friends that booze together, talk incessantly about it online together

Loose Wires: Woz pops a wheelie

• Blogger Michael Arrington holds his New York City TechCrunch party at BED, the bar/restaurant furnished with beds instead of couches, once featured on Sex in the City. One Yelp reviewer says, "It's a definite must for the bridge-and-tunnel crowd." Expect plenty of confusion as the selective bouncers reject Arrington's more unfashionable guests. [TechCrunch]
• Meanwhile, Arrington keeps collecting blog enemies, including Paul Stamatiou, who puts Arrington at the top of his list of insufferably ignorant bloggers with undeserved fame. [Drums n Whistles, Paul Stamatiou]
• How do startup founders prepare for fawning profiles in the mainstream press? By getting fawning profiles in the college press. Most ridiculously laudatory line: "Gregarious and not exactly shy, Afrooz has already assembled a respectable number of Facebook friends at Berkeley, despite living off campus." [UC Berkeley News]
• MySpace gets ready to scrub copyrighted music from the site — not such a big deal since every band puts its own music up there anyway. [Reuters]
• Tribe.net founder Mark Pincus gets an e-mail from the head of yesnomaybe.com. The new dating site begs the males dominating its user base to sign up their hot female friends. As Mark notes, what a lame plan — and free premium accounts for women is a sure sign of a lousy dating site. [Mark Pincus]
• A Forbes writer brilliantly spins the plague of awful startup names (Pluggd, Gabbr, Wufoo) as a sign of prudent spending — these unregistered domains cost their new owners about eight bucks a pop, instead of the $10,000 demanded for URLs like plugged.com. [Forbes]
• Local video blog Geek Entertainment TV interviews Apple co-founder and Segway enthusiast Steve Wozniak about the company's recent recall. [GETV]

To-Do tonight: Besides eating that whole bag of Fun-sized Snickers

• Discover why you should care about social bookmarking. SF Tech Sessions holds a meeting tonight from 7-9pm at CNet in San Francisco. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff, David Galbraith from Wists, and Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra are slated to speak. $5 at the door gets you all the pizza and bottled water you can carry. [SF Tech Sessions]
• A neuroscientist explains how aging brains work, at San Francisco's Bazaar Cafe. Given the city's average adult age, "aging" here means "past 30." [Ask a Scientist]
• Just move to the Bay Area from Beer Country? Pay $60 for this San Mateo event and learn what wine goes with what food. Hint: Everything goes with salmon. [Local Wine Events]
• Update: Sold out. Hear a man even more full of himself than a Silicon Valley bigshot: Evolutionist author Richard Dawkins speaks in San Francisco. [Eventful]

Five reasons Yahoo should stop trying to buy AOL

Google co-founder buys apartment above a Best Buy

News notes: Here be one less monster

• The former CEO of Monster.com, who already stepped down from that post and as board chairman over the industry-wide stock option backdating scandal, just lost his seat on the board as well. Monster announced Andrew McKelvey's resignation from the board this morning. [Washington Post]
• Spot Runner, an ad company that sells generic cut-and-paste TV commercials, took $40 million in funding. With a business-to-business product that can run under a hundred bucks, it's a mystery how this company will become profitable — so this $40-million investor debt may save the world from a hegemony of excruciatingly dull stock-footage ads. [LA Times]
• The New York Times searches for an exciting description of the wild dot-com boom. It fails. "The words 'Internet' and 'bust' were rarely used in the same sentence." [NY Times]
• A VP at Nielsen NetRatings searches for a non-asinine summary of why companies are finally demanding reliable web traffic stats. He fails. "When you grow up, you have to do certain things." [NY Times]
• Former CIA agent and Open Source Solutions, Inc. founder accuses Google of working with the CIA. It's not the first time someone's alleged Google is secretly cooperating with federal agents. [Disgrunt via Good Morning Silicon Valley]

Greenpeace beats Apple at competitive political correctness

Two minutes disdain: A parade of scoundrels

Hold the phone! Apparently THE INTERNET IS DEAD

The Washington Post is so last January, and two other things the paper tried to hide

Times captures Stern, Stewart moments before prison camp internment

I'm back! Now here's a post from someone else

I feel {sic}

Second Life for Life

Sponsor Thanks and Pumpkin Surprise