• party report

    Facebooker Dave Morin turns 28, but fails to destroy Internet

    When I got an unauthorized invite, via a tipster, to Dave Morin's birthday party Tuesday night, I knew I had to crash — if only to find out what he and his friends were thinking. Morin, you see, is a Facebook employee and a prime instigator of Camp Cyprus, the gang of Internet instigators whose shockingly fun video scandalized a shaken Silicon Valley. What's with these Web kids? First they go to Cyprus and destroy the entire economy by filming themselves cavorting at a rich friend's dad's vacation house on the Mediterranean. The horror! But then, what's worse, they return to the United States, unashamed, and continue spending money and enjoying themselves! All this economic activity cannot end well! More »

    2:00 AM on Wed Oct 15 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    2,042 views, 8 comments

    Most discussed JohnGreel: Can someone please tell me why I'm supposed to care about this guy? And why Owen Thomas' sole job is more »

  • irrational exuberance

    It's the end of Web 2.0 as we know it

    The infamous Camp Cyprus 20 are trickling back home. And they feel fine. The twentysomethings of Camp Cyprus work at companies like Google, Facebook, and Blip.tv, all of which make a business of moving our lives online. They gathered at the Cyprus vacation home of Wall Street banker Bob Lessin, overlooking the wine-dark Mediterranean, at the invitation of his startup-founder son, Sam, for a vacation. And in this hyperconnected age, they must surely be aware that a lip-synching video they made of their trip was an Internet sensation, marking the end of an era. If they feel any shame for popping the Web 2.0 bubble, they are not blogging, Tumblring, Twittering, or FriendFeeding it. The only concession to embarrassment over the incident was making the video private — and of course, it promptly resurfaced on YouTube and elsewhere. More »

    4:00 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    26,396 views, 40 comments

    Most discussed douglasdooley: haha, douchebags one and all, but i laughed throughout, all the haters on here need to relax...to put the obvious perspective on more »

  • geeks gone wild

    Facebook NSFW! Julia Allison and other pics from Randi Zuckerberg's Vegas bachelorette

    Can you imagine a photo op that Julia Allison wouldn't attend? What happens in Vegas goes instantly to Valleywag, Allison knows, and so she flew to Las Vegas to attend Randi Zuckerberg's bachelorette party. Zuckerberg, whose wig-and-sunglasses disguise did not deter the Web's paparazzi, is a budding Web video star, Facebook's marketing director, and, unlike younger brother Mark, an actual Harvard graduate. In what's surely a first, Allison, the tech-obsessed TV personality, managed not to hog the camera; she's in only one of the shots. Facebook's Meagan Marks also appears sporting what looks like a freshly acquired head wound. A slip and fall on the dance floor? Our informants are investigating. In the meantime, enjoy the evidence of Zuckerberg's bacchanal. A warning: If plastic sex toys offend your coworkers, one photo may be unsuitable for office computers. More »

    1:20 PM on Mon Apr 28 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    20,099 views, 29 comments

    Latest by Hopeless: Is it me or does Facebook employ the ugliest women in the Valley? I've also heard that Randi is a dingbat. more »

  • geeks gone wild

    Details of Randi Zuckerberg's bachelorette party in Vegas

    We hear that friends of Randi Zuckerberg, better known as nerd chanteuse Randi Jayne, are surprising the Facebook marketer with a bachelorette party in Las Vegas this weekend. The place: the Hard Rock Hotel, where they've secured two suites. (Zuckerberg is set to wed Brent Tworetzky, an associate at Shasta Ventures, in May.) The bacchanalia's expected to last all weekend, including a dinner at Tao and a night out at Rain. Who's going? More »

    12:20 PM on Wed Apr 23 2008
    By Owen Thomas
    4,012 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Owen Thomas: @sample032: And here I thought I was one of the girls. more »

  • comments

    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.

    2:37 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
    By Owen Thomas
    2,373 views, 4 comments

    Latest by dalejo: @technophilia - who is the total hottie? this story and the previous one sure didn't have any. more »

  • valley foxes

    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 »

    4:41 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
    By Owen Thomas
    15,282 views, 30 comments

    Latest by Davion: This is one of the most hilarious threads on VW in a long time. more »

  • party report

    Facebook drives the Valley to drink


    Facebook has been called "the Brangelina of tech" for its ability to mesmerize the Valley's press corps. Insiders at the red-hot social network don't want to believe it. But it's true. At last night's Lunch 2.0 event — a periodic gathering where Silicon Valley companies take turns serving up free food — Facebook showed off its inability to cope with its newfound popularity. Even the timing reflected the crush of interest in the event: Facebook's caterers declared themselves unable to accommodate the lunch crowd, so Facebook turned it into a happy-hour event instead. Facebook's undersized cafeteria was filled with developers, Facebook execs, and assorted hangers-on who packed themselves in like college freshmen at a kegger. Even ostensibly sober types like the Wall Street Journal's Vauhini Vara, shown here double-fisting beers, found themselves caught up in the frat-party atmosphere. More »

    12:56 PM on Thu Aug 2 2007
    By Megan McCarthy
    1,955 views, 3 comments

    Latest by paintball2.0: Dude, you have to party with this girl- she's awesome and she's smokn' hot in person- bad picture more »

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