A Google Adsense TOS violation is usually beneath even Valleywag coverage, but this guy from "The Cleverest" is so brazen, his video just begged for publicity. His message: Click the Google ads. No, really. Now. Now again. Now again. Now—oh, damn, did Google remove 'em?

Blogger's Fuel says, "What do bloggers need? Great coffee!" Sure, if by "great coffee" they mean "a Jack and Coke." [BloggersFuel.com]
The normally mild-mannered tech blogger Michael Arrington, benefit-of-the-doubt giver to all startups, lays the TechCrunch smackdown on Jigsaw. The startup pays you to rat out your friends to its contact list — a dollar for every pal you betray to marketers. Privacy violation make HulkCrunch mad! HulkCrunch smash! [Jigsaw is a really bad idea]
Why is MySpace so successful? Social network expert danah boyd credits social-life integration, a massive user base, friendly governance, activities, convenient brokenness, and possible faddishness. (I credit the hot chicks on it.) [Friendster lost steam. Is MySpace just a fad?]
AjaxWrite — it's Word online. Microsoft doesn't need one, Google already has one, and Yahoo's just not into that — if a dot-com launches and no one's there to buy it, does it make a flip? [AjaxWrite, the Newest Ajax Office Entrant]
San-Fran-based MyNewPlace just got $8 million in funding. The site will offer apartment listings online. Because no one else is doing that. [MyNewPlace Gets Funding For Spring Launch]
Look, if you want to run a dot-com, pitch your TVRank idea to John Battelle — he wants realtime online TV ratings. And I hear he knows a few VCs. [TVRank: Tell Me What People Are Watching]

Sacred Cow Dung runs a list of All Things Web 2.0, including over 1100 web sites. Pretty loose definition of Web 2.0, though — if any old coolhunting blog can be Web 2.0, who can't?
SCD's list is compiled from the Everything 2.0 list, posted in chunks at the openBC forum. There's even a German list.
Dogster founder Ted Rheingold (pictured) gets Farked when a photo of him at Etech becomes Photoshop fodder at Fark.com. Poor guy — he just finished getting respectable at SXSW. [Laughing Squid]
Dell picks up Alienware (inevitable, after their "no comment" denial). Don't worry, gamers, the big dorky PC maker will run its new gaming-box subsidiary separately. And there's no risk of the Dell Guy making a "Dude! You got an Alienware!" comeback. [Mercury News]
Dot-coms keep playing it loose: Wordpress.com has no terms of service — because "laywers suck," jokes owner Matt Mullenweg. They're working on the issue, because yes, lawyers do suck when they're working for disgruntled users.
Yahoo's Upcoming has a user agreement, but one Valleywag reader was happy to find it's editable. So they selected the agreement, typed "I agree to nothing," and joined Upcoming. Because there are so many terrible things one can do with an agreement-free event site account...

Internet forum Ask MetaFilter provides today's blind item. "Anonymous" asked last night:

An attendee of SDForum's monthly Search SIG says some folks aren't disclosing when they give talks.

Running Faucet runs another vlog episode, and it's golden. Faucet Studio co-founders Paul Thrasher and Wang Phan run the ultimate Naked Conversation (metaphorically, people!) and chat about who does what at the company, what's next for their product (a teacher-parent communication tool for elementary schools), and how good those cookies are.

One SXSW party invite stands out today — social IM site imeem (or, properly, "imeem!" but that sounds like a Broadway show) is ending SXSW Interactive SXSW Film (what the hell, imeem?) and kicking off the Austin fest's music leg with a big Tuesday-night party. And they booked a little band named Sleater-Kinney.

Silicon Alley is back, decided the New York Times, and it's edgy. To prove it, the Times opens with the story of a dot-com poetry slam where one schlub fails to impress:

"VCs won't invest in XuQa," said bizblog alarm:clock about the youth-centered social network site. Well, a little social butterfly just told me that XuQa raised some VC cash (dunno from whom) along with its friends-and-family fundraiser. The grand total? A whopping $300k.

Faucet Studio is, I'm sure, a terribly competent organization. They've found the perfect use for cutesy Web 2.0 design, running "Peachkit," a parent-teacher interaction app for elementary schools. But in the vlogging department...maybe they could use some brushing up. Here, for your masochistic pleasure, is their first webcammed video blog.

The social network market may be crowded as hell, and XuQa may be just another teen-hungry wannabe orgy, but how could anyone turn down a business plan like this (run after they got a round of user funding):

In case you hadn't noticed, the dazzling variety of bright, sparkly Web 2.0 logos have one thing in common (besides being doomed). Most of them are working off the same couple of fonts. Upside: It's not Comic Sans. But the pedestrian Arial Rounded Bold is the unfortunate champion.

It's the "I'm working on a screenplay" of Silicon Valley: Every regular Joe's got a dot-com startup, or at least a great rough draft they've been tweaking forever (sometimes entire weeks). But a budding entrepreneur needs to research a bit before popping some flipmeat on the barby.

Megite Technology sent a little PR intro touting itself as "the newspaper for anyone interested in what's happening right now." (The news is, of course, gathered from actual newspapers. And knitting blogs.)

A juicy blind item from a recent bash:

Surprise, surprise. Om Malik says that Google Calendar will follow the new company strategy: take something old, mock it up in Ajax, and shove it out the door. [GigaOM]
Doucheball: the Dodgeball for people who suck. [Brother Lawrence on Flickr]
BlowTheDotOutYourAss (pictured): more dot-coms you don't want. [BTDOYA via supr.c.ilio.us]
Tip beg: Anyone have insider info on Yahoo suing wireless content startup MForma? The MGM of Silicon Valley accused the former Yahooers at MForma of stealing trade secrets. There a legitimate case here, or is Yahoo's new policy "If we can't keep 'em, sue 'em"? [CNET]
And a remaindered video: a UFO-like sighting of what definitely isn't Google's secret OS. [YouTube]

Geek Entertainment TV celebrated its 1000th subscriber with a boozefest and gameshow at San Francisco's House of Shields. The snappy online talk show also taped another episode. Host Irina Slutsky interviewed cosmopolitan geek Jake Appelbaum (the photographer, hacker, and motorbiker with his own FBI file). Scott Beale snapped pics:

Friendster picked up yet another round of funding from Kleiner Perkins, adding to the pile of cash that KP, Benchmark Capital, and Battery Ventures have sunk into the dying social site. No one funding Friendster wants to admit it, but Myspace and Facebook have demolished Friendster's chances of ever turning a profit. And if some conglomerate were foolish enough to buy it? At this point, there'd be so many investors to pay off that the founders will never see a dime.

Allen Morgan, meet your perfect idea-recycling resource. Business 2.0's Om Malik points out a useful list of dot-com ideas — all of which are now ghost sites, enshrined in the Museum of E-Failure. Check out Adcritic.com, which feels (but doesn't look, thankfully) like today's Adrants or AdLand. Or boo.com, which — wait — no, that one's coming back from the dead. Incidentally, is that girl on Boo.com supposed to look like an extra from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?