Valleynag

The rise in popular “social media” tools has lead to the imminent degradation in structured media into one that is limited to 140 characters.  Andy Warhol is rolling in his grave as he learns nobody received their 15 minutes of fame - instead fame comes in the form of small chunks of text fodder that […]

Ambro Johnson, an accountant working for an unnamed VC firm, is the one who coined the term “Opposite Day”, February 29th.  Ms. Johnson was driving into work, thinking about all the VC partners who jet-set around the globe and act as sales/marketing people with an unlimited expense account.  Then she thought of the long hours […]

A couple sources tell us that Jerry Yang is in talks with Neville Isdell of Coca Cola and Hormel president Jeffrey M. Ettinger about a possible alternative plan to the Microsoft acquisition.
In this plan, Coke and Hormel would trade ownership of the Minute Maid and Stagg Chili brands to Yahoo, in exchange for 30% […]

Originally the source of all insider training knowledge on the Internet, Valleywag, self-proclaimed tech gossip rag, slides to 12th place right behind Guy Kawasaki’s Treumers and lesser-known Reddit (you remember… the freaky alien thing.)
“How else am I suppose to inflate the value of my company?” asked one valley startup CEO, “I mean my VC won’t […]

According to sources close to the deal, Microsoft will be offering Yahoo engineers free copies of Visual Studio and Windows Vista as part of a “generous retention package” they will be offering after an acquisition.

The Oracleoplex is a Valley icon. You can’t miss the big cylinders in off 101 in Redwood City. But what goes on inside them? Thanks to our tipster, we finally know what’s inside, and its not what you think.

So a citibank analyst Paul Mansky thinks Cisco sales are going to go up and up. But that assumes that people still care about routers and switches. But startups like facebook have already shown that social media, not switches and routers are what grows the internet.

It looks like this company cannot do anything right. Their old url to the HR part of the intranet was yet another failure from Yahoo management, so they sent out a memo.
The full memo after the jump.

What do you do when your baby is eaten up by Yahoo and all your users driven away? I’m hearing from multiple people that Stewart Butterfield spends his days mumbling about the New World Order locked in a conference room in Flickr’s downtown offices. I also had one source tell me that Butterfield has stopped […]

(this is a feature from our new sex correspondent)
You may think you moved to Silicon Valley for the partying, the drugs or the money. But we all know what really draws people to the valley is the sex.  You might not have been invited, you might not have heard of it, but in Silicon Valley some […]