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Valleywag
Valleywag was a Gawker Media blog with gossip and news about Silicon Valley personalities. It was initially launched under the direction of editor Nick Douglas in February 2006. After Douglas was fired,Why Valleywag Sacked its Editor New York Times, November 14, 2006. the blog was taken over by Owen Thomas. Thomas left in May 2009, and was replaced by Ryan Tate.Owen Thomas Leaving Gawker TechCrunch.com, May 5, 2009. Valleywag was the first to break some stories, such as the leaking of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Thomas (writer)
Owen Thomas (born March 30, 1972) is an American blogger, journalist, and entrepreneur. He is the business editor at The ''San Francisco Chronicle''. He was the founding executive editor of The Daily Dot and former executive editor of VentureBeat. He was the managing editor of Valleywag, a Gawker Media gossip and news blog about Silicon Valley personalities that bills itself as a "tech gossip rag". Career Thomas graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. He is a 1994 graduate of the University of Chicago. He first worked at Suck.com, and later at the former technology magazine ''Business 2.0''. He was managing editor of the Silicon Valley gossip website Valleywag, before leaving to run NBC's local site for the San Francisco Bay Area. Thomas does some on-screen commentary in the film ''Revenge of the Electric Car''. In 2013, Thomas was named Editor-in-Chief of ReadWrite. He joined the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' in 2016. Valleywag Thomas replaced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawker Media
Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American Online and offline, online Mass media, media company and Link farm#Blog network, blog network. It was founded by Nick Denton in October 2003 as Blogwire, and was based in New York City. Incorporated in the Cayman Islands, as of 2012, Gawker Media was the Holding company, parent company for seven different weblogs and many subsites under them: ''Gawker, Gawker.com'', ''Deadspin'', ''Lifehacker'', Gizmodo, ''Kotaku'', ''Jalopnik'', and ''Jezebel (website), Jezebel''. All Gawker articles are licensed on a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. In 2004, the company renamed from Blogwire, Inc. to Gawker Media, Inc., and to Gawker Media LLC shortly after. In 2016, the company filed for Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code, Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after damages of $140 million were awarded against the company as a result of the Hulk Hogan Bollea v. Gawker, sex tape lawsuit. On Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Biddle
Sam Faulkner Biddle (born 1986) is an American technology journalist. He is a reporter for ''The Intercept'', and was formerly a senior writer at Gawker, the editor of the news website Valleywag, and a reporter at Gizmodo. Education Biddle attended Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of the Delta Phi fraternity and majored in philosophy. Career Biddle was formerly the editor of Valleywag, a technology news website owned by Gawker Media. In October 2014, he announced that he was leaving Valleywag and taking a sabbatical, after which he took another reporting position at Gawker. His writing focuses on Internet issues, such as cybersecurity and online political activism. In 2014, he was one of ''Vanity Fair's'' "News Disrupters," a "new breed of journo-entrepreneurs trikingout on their own, cutting to the chase and influencing the masses without (much of) a filter." Controversies Biddle's articles have often been controversial, at times criticizing and making fun of tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Lyons
Daniel Lyons (born 1960) is an American writer. He was a senior editor at ''Forbes'' magazine and a writer at ''Newsweek'' before becoming editor of ReadWrite. In March 2013 he left ''ReadWrite'' to accept a position at HubSpot. Lyons is the author of a book of short stories, ''The Last Good Man'' (1993); a novel, ''Dog Days'' (1998); and a fictional biography, ''Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody'' (2007). Under the pseudonym "Fake Steve Jobs," he also wrote ''The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs'', a popular blog and parody of Apple CEO Steve Jobs. He was a writer and coproducer on HBO's ''Silicon Valley'' and wrote the script for the May 2015 episode "White Hat/Black Hat," while on a 14-week break from HubSpot in 2014. Dan Lyons authored the book '' Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start Up Bubble'' (2016) about his time at the Boston, MA startup HubSpot. The book was a ''New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'' and ''San Francisco Chronicle'' bestseller. Readers r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Denton
Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton (born 24 August 1966) is a British Internet entrepreneur, journalist and blogger, the founder and former proprietor of the blog collective Gawker Media, and was the managing editor of the New York-based ''Gawker'', until a lawsuit by Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) bankrupted the company. For years after starting Gawker Media in 2003, Denton ran the company from his apartment in SoHo. Life and career Denton grew up in Hampstead, the son of British economist Geoffrey Denton and his wife, Marika (née Marton), a Hungarian Jew who survived the Nazis and escaped the Soviet occupation at age 18. A psychotherapist, she died of cancer the year before her son moved to New York City. Denton has a younger sister, Rebecca. He was educated at University College School and University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He also became the editor of the university's magazine. He began his career as a journalist with the ''Financial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Gira Grant
Melissa Gira Grant (born 1978) is an American journalist. She is a staff writer at The New Republic and the author of '' Playing the Whore'' (Verso, 2014), the extended essay ''Take This Book'' (Glass Houses, 2012) and co-editor of the ebook ''Coming and Crying'' (Glass Houses, 2010). Early life Melissa Gira Grant was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at San Francisco State University. Career Grant is a former sex worker who began sex work to pay for being a writer. Grant was a member of the Exotic Dancers Union and a board member at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco. Grant worked at St. James Infirmary Clinic in San Francisco from 2006 to 2009. Later she was on the staff of Third Wave Foundation, a social justice and feminist foundation in New York. Writing Grant’s writing covers the intersection of sex, politics, and technology. She is the author of '' Playing the Whore'' (2014) published by Verso and a staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gawker
''Gawker'' is an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry. According to SimilarWeb, the site had over 23 million visits per month as of 2015. Founded in 2003, ''Gawker'' was the flagship blog for Denton's Gawker Media. Gawker Media also managed other blogs such as ''Jezebel'', ''io9'', ''Deadspin'' and '' Kotaku''. ''Gawker'' came under scrutiny for posting videos, communications and other content that violated copyrights or the privacy of its owners, or was illegally obtained. ''Gawker'' publication of a sex tape featuring Hulk Hogan led Hogan to sue the company for invasion of privacy. Hogan received financial support from billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who had been outed by Gawker against his wishes. On June 10, 2016, ''Gawker'' filed for bankruptcy after being ordered to pay Hogan $140 million in damages. On August 18, 2016, Gawker Media announced that its namesake blog would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Boutin
Paul Boutin (born December 11, 1961 in Lewiston, Maine) is an American magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context. Boutin, who began writing for ''Wired'' in 1997, wrote for ''The New York Times'' from 2003–2013, covered emerging technologies for MIT's Technology Review, and was a freelancer for Newsweek. From 2009–2010 he covered Internet business and culture for VentureBeat. He was a senior writer and editor for Silicon Valley gossip site ''Valleywag'' from 2006 to 2008, and a tech columnist for ''Slate'' from 2002 to 2008. His work has also appeared in'' Bloomberg Businessweek'', ''The New Republic'', MSNBC, ''Reader's Digest'', ''Adweek'', ''Engadget'', ''Salon.com'', '' Outside'', ''Cargo'', ''Business 2.0'', the ''Independent Film & Video Monthly'', ''InfoWorld'' and ''PC World''. Before turning pro as a journalist, he spent 15 years as an engineer and manager at MIT, where he worked on Project Athena, and at several Internet-rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
365 Main
365 may refer to: * 365 (number), an integer * a common year, consisting of 365 calendar days * AD 365, a year of the Julian calendar * 365 BC, a year of the 4th century BC Media outlets * 365 (media corporation), Icelandic TV company * 365 Media Group, UK sports betting company * 365mag, electronic music e-zine based in Amsterdam Music * ''365'' (album), a 2012 album by Taiwanese Mandopop trio boyband JPM * "365" (Zedd and Katy Perry song) * "365" (Loona song) * "365", song by Amaranthe * "365", song by Nicole C. Mullen * " 3.6.5", song by Exo * K.365, Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra in E flat major ("Concerto No. 10"), K. 365 (K. 316a) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart * "365", a song by DJ Khaled featuring Kent Jones, Ace Hood and Vado, made for the soundtrack of NBA 2K16 * ''365'', a song by Tiara Andini Software * Microsoft 365, a line of subscription services for office software * Microsoft Dynamics 365, a product line of enterprise resource planning and customer rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hacker News
Hacker News (sometimes abbreviated as HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." The word ''hacker'' in "Hacker News" is used in its original meaning and refers to the hacker culture which consists of people who enjoy tinkering with technology. History The site was created by Paul Graham in February 2007. Initially called Startup News or occasionally News.YC., it became known by its current name on August 14, 2007. It developed as a project of Graham's company Y Combinator, functioning as a real-world application of the Arc programming language which Graham co-developed. At the end of March 2014, Graham stepped away from his leadership role at Y Combinator, leaving Hacker News administration in the hands of other staff members. The site is currently moderated by D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Y Combinator (company)
Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Stripe and Twitch. The combined valuation of the top YC companies was more than $300 billion by January 2021. The company's accelerator program started in Boston and Mountain View, expanded to San Francisco in 2019, and has been entirely online since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. ''Forbes'' characterized the company in 2012 as one of the most successful startup accelerators in Silicon Valley. History Y Combinator was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Robert Tappan Morris, and Trevor Blackwell. From 2005 to 2008, one program was in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and one was in Mountain View, California. As Y Combinator grew to 40 investments per year, running two programs became too much. In January 2009, Y Combinator an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
