Ad:tech San Francisco is on and I'm disappointed. AdWeek's Brian Morrissey promised me Ad:tech would be full of "random, sketchy lead gen ad networks who hire booth babes." Instead, I'm stuck in a session with panelists explaining how Google could better sell search advertising for offline brand advertising campaigns, which sounds boringly profitable. And I've encountered precious little sleaziness yet. Except for one guy and his two friends from Blow4Free.com. And the 13 others I met, in photographs below. A warning: The last two pics are probably too hot for your office manager to handle.
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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!
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.
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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]
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.
Latest by chris311: HOMETOWN:
Ann Arbor
AGE:
24
PLATFORM:
Community Revitalization:
Building A Sustainable Future
TALENT:
Fiddle, "Bomshel Stomp (Old Joe Clark)"
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction in Organizational Studies
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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