bubble-20

Megan McCarthy · 07/03/07 04:23PM

Remember when interns were stuck doing menial tasks that no one else wanted? Well, thanks to a shortage of engineers, now they get scavenger hunts, dodgeball tournaments, free food, and sunset cruises. [CNET]

Megan McCarthy · 06/13/07 03:10PM

Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash is investing in social network BlockSavvy. "After MySpace sold for $580 million, we said, damn, we gotta get us some of that." [Business 2.0]

SVUG #15: How do I cash in on the 2007 bubble?

Paul Boutin · 12/28/06 03:45PM

PAUL BOUTIN — Once your hangover wears off, January 2 is the day to start your search for the Web 2.0 bubble job that'll finally, finally make you rich. First, you'll need to reconfigure your approach. A checklist for selling out after the jump.

Top Ten Tech Words of 2006

Nick Douglas · 12/11/06 06:33PM

NICK DOUGLAS — This was not a healthy year for the language, but it was damn good for technolinguists. Words like *Camp and Web 3.0 built on the popular buzzwords of earlier years, while Wikiality and Series of Tubes mocked the silliness of the Internet. For the top ten words in tech this year:

Got any bubbles? Go fish!

Nick Douglas · 10/31/06 11:00AM

"Are we in a bubble yet?" asked the crowd. "No," replied the analysts. "All the startups are private companies, none listed on the stock market. Only a few investors stand to lose their money."

Everyone must get sold

Nick Douglas · 10/10/06 08:33PM

CD-swapping site LaLa used some of its nine million bucks to buy an resurrect a dead Internet radio station, WOXY. Just when you thought a site already made obsolete by Amazon, eBay, and iTunes couldn't get any more irrelevant, ya know?

Get an inclue: Have we found the stupidest startup of Web 2.0?

Nick Douglas · 10/06/06 05:10PM

I first discovered inclue when its CEO wrote me asking if Google Video was for sale. Nick Gogerty had found an RSS feed including the phrase "Google Video - Video Search [is:forsale]" — which means, of course, that the feed returns videos that viewers can buy through Google Video, not that Google's dumping the whole operation.

I'd rather Become.com

Nick Douglas · 10/04/06 11:51AM

A report by Valleywag's new party correspondent, Megan McCarthy