Go Daddy is fightin' mad
GoDaddy writes in on our report of a customer fighting with the domain-name and Web-hosting service
The letter from GoDaddy continues:Governor's sex scandal may jump start call girl's singing career
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's downfall could be a good thing for the girl who serviced him. Ashley Alexandra Dupré, known to Spitzer as "Kristen, has put her songs on Amie Street, a startup that prices songs according to their popularity, were free this morning. Now they're up to 37 cents each. It's unlikely…
Is Go Daddy struggling with the First Amendment or bandwidth?
While everyone agrees that GoDaddy.com shut down a police-rating site, the hosting service and the owner of RateMyCop.com can't agree on why. PR folk at Go Daddy say the site was a bandwidth hog, while the RateMyCoppers say they were shut down for "suspicious activity" — i.e. offending the police. In any case,…
Hackers could shut down your pacemaker
Medical researchers were able to deliver shocks and stop a Medtronic pacemaker without using the control box. The box, sold only to the doctors of pacemaker recipients, communicates with the device via radio waves. But the lab workers were able to duplicate the signals remotely, and figured out how to get the private…
Platform A CEO is out
Curt Viebranz, the CEO of AOL's ad sales unit Platform A, is leaving. AOL did not say why, but "sources" are suddenly tipping off a lot of blogs that he was fired. Viebranz, former head of Tacoda, joined Platform A at its inception last fall. The unit was supposed to house ad sales for all AOL units. Another AOL…
You want deadly sins? We got 'em
How cute is this dog? You love animals, right? Then how come so many of you sickos flocked to look at that sick video of the Marines torturing that poor puppy? Thank God enough of you have your priorities straight—rich people are what makes us happy, especially young billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg. And sex: who…
Jerry Yang is a lousy tipper
The wait staff at a swanky lunch spot for Valley executives does not heart Jerry Yang. The complaint: He tips 10 percent or less, no matter how big the bill. Since waiters share their tips with the rest of the staff, they each get — well, practically bupkes. For those of you not fluent in Yiddish, that means an…
Another place Google won't take you
The Pentagon will not allow Google Earth to show street level views of U.S. military bases, according to the AP saying it could aid terrorists. But Google is not above a bit of censorship itself. Just try and get a close look at the company's new San Francisco offices on Google Maps.
Pitzer College offers YouTube class
Or, as TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington puts it,
WTF? Although maybe it's not so far-fetched since, as we pointed out earlier in the week, Stanford is offering a similar class:
Is TechCrunch turning into Valleywag?
That's not our question. It comes from this blog.. The evidence: these headlines, which the writer apparently feels are beneath Arrington.
* Breast Isn't Best On Facebook
* Something Going On At Twitter?
* Googlers Get Kinky On Wikipedia
* Multi-Day Paypal Subscription Outage
* Like Sands Through The Hour Glass,…
We do TOO have a lot of traffic, says BusinessWeek
In the category of "the best defense is a good offense": The editors at BusinessWeek are not interested in anyone's analysis of why their website's traffic lags Forbes.com and Fortune.com—even when it says they're not to blame. Silicon Alley Insider's Peter Kafka tried to give them a break, yesterday, saying that a …
"It's time to dump the term "reality TV." At this point, it's rather like referring to packaged fruit snacks as "produce." My suggested replacement would be "partially scripted TV," which I imagine would be preferable to "fabricated" for those who work that end of the business." Ray Raymond, for the
Hollywood Reporter.
Care for a frypod with that shake?
What red-blooded American child wouldn't rather have nice, healthy apple slices in a frybox than the warm, salty bits of FAT that they're used to? Burger King,
doing its best to be a good corporate citizen and fight the good fight against obesity, is offering this new snack in a "frypod." Better question: which…
Looks like AOL is using
Facebook's poaching tactics to recuit from Yahoo. Check out from Facebook's network for Yahoo employees.
Facebook is poaching Googlers
This is from an ex-Googler who remains in Facebook's Google network. When he logged onto Facebook, guess what popped up? It's not as high-profile as, say, Microsoft's
poaching suit against Google two years ago, but it's interesting to note that all the big Valley companies are feeling free to steal each other's…
Warning: Viewing Yahoo may cause seizures
As if there weren't enough
problems at Yahoo, now the site causes —or they just have some REALLY cautious lawyers, who could probably be doing something much better with their time. Since you people are so busy and important, we'll just cut and paste section 19E of the Yahoo users agreement:A SMALL PERCENTAGE OF USERS…
Marry your daughter off online
Meet Kyra A. She's 14-and-1/2, lives in the Southeast, and her hand in marriage can be won for the low, low price of $27,995. Psych! The giant-killer
New York Times reporter Brad Stone, , has that is a hoax, designed to provoke discussion of the inconsistency of laws on underage marriage and sex in our great…
Just in time for September 11, the EU is considering legislation to ban posting bomb-making instructions on the Web. Sadly, the horse is out of the barn on that one. [
Ars Technica]
The porn industry is hard up for solutions to the piracy problem
This may be the best headline ever written. In the history of the world. Enough said. [
Ars Technica]
Who am I and why am I here?
I'm Evelyn Nussenbaum. It's not an existential question. But in case you're wondering where the lovely and talented Owen Thomas has gone, the answer is Hawaii. With his spouse. Leaving me to fill his extremely large (but stylish) shoes. So who am I? The short answer is that I am a refugee from the late, great …