Face it, old-timer: Generation Y is already pushing you out the door. Valleywag's here to show you the Bubbleborn, the crowd of upstarts and young bucks overthrowing the Valley. Whether they're inflating or popping the new tech bubble, this is the world they'll shape.
The wittiest wits that ever...wittcized...checked in this week. Blackjack, sadly, didn't have any bon mots for us.
Stage 2 of Snacky or Flacky, Valleywag's PR hotties tourney, continues as Yahoo publicist Terra Carmichael faces off with Simply Hired publicist Kay Luo.
Welcome to Stage 2 of Snacky or Flacky, Valleywag's PR hotties tourney.
Icy-hot love to Valleywag's advertisers, Intellext and MS MEDC, are too hot for tourneys.
The Snacky or Flacky prelims are over, half the PR hotties are voted out (but will have lucrative record contracts anyway). Congrats to the winners! Let's see which get bumped off next. Left to right: Justin O'Neill, Brooke Hammerling, Jeremy Pepper, and Margaux Vega.
MySpace (spotted blocking Buzznet just yesterday) plays another dirty trick in its desperate campaign for a walled garden.
Yahoo employees kindly thank Tom Cruise for the free "Mission: Impossible III" tickets:
Yahoo gets festive today for Cinco de Mayo, while Google snubs the Mexican holiday for the seventh year running:
Jonathan Schwartz speaks his own language, where "the edge of the Mission" means "a big house on Church Street" and "try and buy" means "General Motors should be a phone company." So his new Forbes Q&A needs some Valleyspeak interpretation. Here are translations for the tough bits.
Translation: "Look how…The morning news from our favorite Fortune 500 tech firms:
Pitch Magazine says it's found the tech world's James Frey in hacker and search engineer John Flowers. In an eight-page piece, Pitch writer David Martin crows over inconsistencies in Flowers' history (as given by Flowers in speeches, interviews, and his blog). But, so what? Maybe there are still some standards in…
Microsoft's new ad program is broken right out of the box, according to one user:
These two lovely young ladies hail from PR firm Weber Shandwick, which snatched them up before they even turned 25 (the "over the hill" age adjusted for the PR industry). Now they're the two final entrants for Snacky or Flacky. You've got all night to vote.
Finally, some testosterone! Or, well, some guys at least. Of these two male "Snacky or Flacky" contestants, one knows how to make beautiful noise — the other, well, at least he makes noise. Ladies and gentleman, publicist Miles Perkins of Industrial Light and Magic, and blogger Jeremy Pepper of Weber Shandwick…
OnHollywood, the conference held by the Tony Perkins's AlwaysOn Network that's just now wrapping up, shows the signs of a good and bad event. The good: A decent Flickr pool. The bad: A cluster on Tech Memeorandum. But the Flickr stream proves this was a missable event, or at least required a Web 2.0 Kool-Aid apéritif.
Blue Security (site's down), the anti-spam service run by former Russian spammers, is a favorite spammer target due to its ruthless de facto DDOS attacks on spam senders. (This tactic recently earned it some revenge spam from a spammer who checked their mailing list against Blue Frog's public e-mail list and targeted…
MySpace is at it again. The site blocked embedded YouTube videos last year (but then, saying it was a "misunderstanding," fixed it). But Buzznet is a direct competitor, with similar photo-sharing, friend-linking, and other social features. Now MySpace blocks any mention of Buzznet in user profiles. While users can use…
