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Photos from Marissa Mayer's "Sex and the City" screening
CENTURY SAN FRANCISCO CENTRE 9 — Where are the girls? An event producer and I both nervously paced through the lobby. Where was Marissa Mayer? The Google executive had rented a theater for the 8:50 screening of Sex and the City, but she and 300 of her closest friends were nowhere to be seen. Late, of course — have you tried to walk the block-long distance between Mayer's Four Seasons penthouse and the Westfield Centre in a pair of Manolo Blahniks? Finally, I spotted someone I knew — gorgeous Googler Brittany Bohnet, girlfriend of Facebooker Dave Morin, above. ("People are saying I look like Charlotte," said Bohnet, pictured above. "Do you think so?" Yes. Cuter than Charlotte, actually. More » -
Crash This Bash
Marissa Mayer holding "Sex and the City" party tonight
At this very moment, a guest tells me, Google executive Marissa Mayer is throwing a "Blahnikfest" to celebrate her birthday and the premiere of Sex and the CIty. She's rented out a theater at San Francisco's downtown Century multiplex for her friends. Is Mayer our Carrie Bradshaw? Quite possibly, though Mayer's Four Seasons penthouse is more fabulous than the Sex and the City scribe. Like the heroine, she's found love in the hunky form of Zachary Bogue — her Mr. Big, though Mayer's the one with the far more impressive resume. She turns 33 today, as we've noted, and while she normally skips birthday parties during odd years — a "quirk," she says — Bogue was out of town today. The party features cakes the exact size and shape of Bradshaw's preferred shoes, made by Shinmin Li, the owner of the Mayer-backed I Dream of Cake bakery, as well as cupcakes flown in from New York's Magnolia Bakery. The invite: More » -
Recap
A week we squirmed our way through
What a week to be a geek! All the moguls went to the D conference, leaving San Francisco ripe for a Googler takeover — in fact, Marissa turned 33. Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg annoyed her ex-employees, while Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky bothered his current ones. Melissa Gira Grant left the Internet — but thankfully came back. Thank goodness — we were geting ready to chew our ears off. -
Exclusive
Director Bill Levesque and producer Brett Bonthron on "Weekend King"
Weekend King, the low-budget feature written and directed by Microsoft's Bill Levesque and produced by his colleague Brett Bonthron, has had its run at the Victoria Theater extended for three more weeks, playing tomorrow night at 7 p.m. The film won't win any Oscars, but I can see why audiences have responded well: As a comedy of manners set in the Valley, it captures much of the anxiety amongst the legions of post-boom cube dwellers who toil on the peninsula. In an interview at Valleywag hangout Caffe Roma, Levesque and Bonthron admitted the film needed some work in post-production, but were emphatic that it be seen with an audience — joking that I should insert my own laugh track into the screener DVD they provided to mimic the experience. More » -
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Jeff Bezos pitches the Kindle, BookSurge to skeptical mob at Book Expo America
LOS ANGELES, CA — Jeff Bezos pitched the Kindle to attendees at Book Expo America today in downtown LA, and then sat down with Wired editor and author of The Long Tail Chris Anderson for a little chit-chat. The takeaway? Much like Apple, Bezos uses the euphemism "customer experience" for "vertical integration," especially when it comes to the new Kindle and the requirement that print-on-demand publishers work with Amazon subsidiary BookSurge. After the jump, some choice quotes from before Anderson's questions (presumably from his notes, on regular old paper, pictured here) started to veer into extreme audience irrelevance when he brought up EC2 and Bezos' space ambitions. More » -
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Caption Contest
Google to acquire invisible hand of markets
Business strategist Gary Hamel interviews surprisingly effusive Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline. Yesterday's winner: TemplaHeron, for "Google I/O afterparty, May 29, 1977." (Photo by Steve Jurvetson) -
Jackpot
Millionaire Mark Zuckerberg needs to hire a decorator
How did we miss this at D6? Mark Zuckerberg said he'd had Google cofounder Larry Page and CEO Eric Schmidt over for dinner recently; his digs were so Spartan, Zuckerberg said, that Page got a chair, and Schmidt wound up on the floor. Zuckerberg likes to point to his one-bedroom apartment as proof that he hasn't profited from Facebook. But according to Sarah Lacy in Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good, Zuckerberg cashed out $1 million in Facebook shares in an early financing round. He can afford some nice furniture, in other words; he's just too busy, or lazy, to hire an interior decorator. -
Great Moments In Pr
Joost worries about a story Valleywag wasn't planning to write
Haven't heard much about Joost lately? That's because the online-video startup, founded by the same obstreperous Europeans behind Kazaa and Skype, seems to be going exactly nowhere. It is the opposite of newsworthy, with its software-based approach to video distribution having been completely undone by YouTube and Adobe's Flash technology. Adobe is adding peer-to-peer distribution, Joost's main distinction, and even investors like Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman have taken to dissing it. Could there be worse news? We can't imagine it. But Joost's flack can. More » -
sex trade
The face of Internet Safety Month, porn star Stormy Daniels
Hey kids, only two more days of online sex panic left! June is Internet Safety Month, and just in time for porn-blocking software companies to get in on the action. Not left behind is ASACP, the porn industry's unpornographically named Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection. It kicked off the month's observation early in Washington Thursday. Porn star and ASACP spokeswoman Stormy Daniels made the trip to show off two public-service announcements aimed at educating parents on shielding kids from porn, while squeezing in a nod at the idea that dad (and mom) are probably watching porn, too. "Hi there," one spot opens. "We've met before, right?" She taps her monitor. "In here?" Watch and see. More »
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