The original Hot or Not, which launched in 2000, was the precursor to today's ratings apps—a website that let strangers judge pulchritude by profile pic alone. It's so old, Mark Zuckerberg ripped off the idea to get Facebook rolling. So how did the newly relaunched version get to no. 13 in Apple's App Store? With the help of good old fashioned email spam.
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Women are using period-tracking apps to keep track of their periods (as the name would indicate) — and the New York Times is on it. My original thought on the matter was, "Why would I need this? My body has a built-in period tracking app. It went off the other week when I cried at Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement photo — which was taken candidly, by a radiator, in the enduring glow of a tender and true love." But then, reading more, I reconsidered my position.
For 20 minutes or so today, Gmail was unavailable, and a million corny tweets flitted in and out of white-collar attention spans. Among them was a short, subtle, teasing message from Yahoo!, ribbing its chief corporate competitor with a simple notice that "Gmail is temporarily unavailable" and a screenshot of an error message. Hours later, it apologized. This is pathetic.
Silicon Valley has never been known for its appreciation of subtleties. Case in point: eminent venture capitalist Tom Perkins, who co-founded mega-firm Perkins Caufield & Byers, just wrote one of the most disgustingly tone deaf statements on class
If there's anything the Winklevoss ubermenschen love more than Harvard and revenge, it's Bitcoin
The Guardian has obtained top secret documents from Edward Snowden that show that both the NSA and GCHQ (its UK equivalent) have been developing the ability to siphon personal information from "leaky" smartphone apps such as Google Maps and Angry Birds. In one document, the agency lays out the "perfect scenario" of the type of info it can obtain when a photo taken with a smartphone is uploaded to a social media site.
Perhaps BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem, who was arrested and charged with money laundering
Google isn't just a scapegoat. Data-centric journalist Chris Walker plotted an array of data against a map of San Francisco's Google Bus stops
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Tom Perkins, the self-proclaimed "King of Silicon Valley," went on Bloomberg TV to apologize for, but then try to legitimize the offensive letter to the editor
Last night, Bloomberg West's Emily Chang treated us to one of the greatest TV interviews in recent memory, as she sat down with venture capitalist-cum-cartoon villain Tom Perkins. He not only stood
Especially when it's getting
Silicon Valley could not scramble away from Tom Perkins fast enough this week, after one of the founding fathers of venture capital tried to compare
It looks like all that synergy
No, this isn't the worst ever episode of Weekend Update—Marissa Mayer continues to do a painfully awkward video presentation during each Yahoo! quarterly earnings report. It needs to stop doing this, because non-struggling companies do not do this.
The question to ask about vaguely startup-y summer camps
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