Young master Peter Cashmore of Mashable ditched the vest for the last party before repatriating to Blighty one step ahead of immigration officials. Here he’s caught savoring a sweet cupcake with a come-hither glint in his eye. Proffer a different headline in the comments, and the most cunning linguist will be crowned with a new title on this post. Yesterday, emnem had the climactic entry with “Eric Shmidt and wife Wendy seen in Valleywag Green #61b335.” (Photo by Andrew Mager)
The golden boys of New York’s start-up scene are just as flashbulb-driven as the women who dote on them, a new Details mag feature reveals. Mostly they followed Tumblr’s enfant terrible, David Karp, and his heterosexual beard Charles Forman, who pimps “social gaming” at iminlikewithyou but is still better known as last season’s Mr. Julia Allison. There’s a guest appearance by Kevin Rose, which you can just tell is going to get messy. He’s inserted towards the end as the wise old sage, warning these new guys away from male Internet fameballing:
Kevin Rose—”an old, old man,” to quote Cashmore—never planned on going to the Mashable party. “I’m all partied out,” he says. People magazine readers probably wouldn’t know who Rose is, but among the Internet-savvy he’s Brad Pitt. Rose, who dated Julia Allison a few years ago, is remarkably low-key compared with his younger counterparts. Drinking tea out of a mug covered with skulls and crossbones, he perks up when the talk turns to rock climbing (he’s in a group called Geeks Love Climbing). He says he doesn’t know what the term fameballer means. He also says he doesn’t do things like wedge himself into nightclubs to have his picture taken with founder fetishists.
Those would be the women who this sort of scorn is usually reserved for: Julia Allison and her heiress apparents.
The Details profile is predictably overblown, but its core message is clear: There’s a new generation of men in tech who no longer feel it’s enough to just launch a product people want — unless that product is themselves.
Mashable founder Pete Cashmore will say goodbye to his American friends tonight in San Francisco. The faux-blogging CEO caps off his six-month visa stay with a party, booze, food, and — as always — startup pitches. The Scottish whirlwind came to the U.S. and stayed long enough to snag a documentary, as well as gals left, right, and sometimes both sides. What’s the secret? Perhaps it’s his dapper outfit. We chronicle Pete’s magical suit vest:
February 23, 2008:
FlashMash Meet NYC
Februrary 25, 2008:
Valleywag
March 10, 2008:
SXSW ‘08
March 11, 2008:
Valleywag
March 12, 2008:
Pure Volume Party
March 13, 2008:
(Photo by Brian Solis/Bub.blicio.us)
March 18, 2008:
Tumblr/Rock Band party
March 31, 2008:
Mashable/Causecast drinkup
April 5, 2008:
Valleywag
April 11, 2008:
PopCrunch 2008
April 22, 2008:
Web 2.0 Expo/Digg party
June 7, 2008:
(Photo by Brian Solis/Bub.blicio.us)
June 18, 2008:
(Photo by Brian Solis/bub.blicio.us)
July 15, 2008:
Valleywag
July 18, 2008:
LA Mashable Tour
July 20, 2008;
SummerMash LA
August 21, 2008:
Mashable Monthly
September 20, 2008:
Blog World Expo
September 30, 2008:
(Photo by Mark Heithoff/DETAILS)
October Details magazine profile.
(Top photo by Caroline McCarthy)
GigaOm’s Om Malik and Mashable’s Pete Cashmore like to present themselves as leaders of a new kind of Web 2.0 journalism. Both turned up at Current TV’s offices Friday, ostensibly to cover Current’s Twitter-enhanced coverage of the first Presidential debate. Truth is, Current’s publicists had called reporters to tip us off that executive chairman of the board Al Gore would be there. Gore didn’t bother to use Twitter himself — he didn’t even stick around for the debate. But he did take time to pose for photos.
Malik and Cashmore, perhaps taking a cue, didn’t do any real reporting on the event, leaving that to Threat Level and Laughing Squid. The two simply blogged their Al-and-me pictures as news stories on GigaOm and Mashable, bringing themselves one step closer to the old media stereotype of the vain reporter who can’t stop inserting himself into the story — or in this case, into the non-story.
Current TV’s Twitter-enhanced live feed of the Obama/McCain debate on Friday “broke new ground,” according to Wired blogger Sarah Lai Stirland. But it’s been nearly a month since the September 8 premiere of CNN’s Rick Sanchez Direct, in which Sanchez turns the camera on Twitter for the modern version of man-on-the-street quotes. How it works: You add Rick. He adds you back. You then tweet live during his show. He may pullquote you, or run the live stream onscreen. Sanchez, currently following nearly 18,000 people, already drew attention for his live tweet-reading during Hurricane Gustav, when Twitterers filed reported facts to millions of viewers.
Current and Twitter’s debate stream was interesting, but not new. Mashable and VentureBeat covered the launch of Sanchez’s show three weeks ago, noting that CNN’s arrival had forced Twitter’s management to exempt Sanchez, like Robert Scoble, from their usual limit on the number of feeds one user could follow.
If you thought Current’s lazy stream of debate tweets was hot, watch the above compilation of the always-slighty-overexuberant Sanchez: “My Twitterboard’s about to explode.” (Video by 23/6)
Despite competition from huge search and information sites like Google and Wikipedia, the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has for years been a prime resource if you wanted to know anything about a movie, TV show, actor, director, or—hell—even grip. Now the site’s taken an interesting new turn, incorporating shows and videos from Hulu, CBS, and Sony directly into their results. For example, when you go to an episode listing page on IMDb, it links directly to the video for that episode if its available. Seeing as IMDb is the place we already go to look up information about this sort of thing, the direct integration makes it that much easier to find a video you’re looking for if it’s available without having to figure out who might be hosting it, going to that site, then searching for it there. It’s a winner.
Motorola has come out with a phone, the Cliq, targeted at a specific market and utilizing the power of Google’s Android platform. It is the first of a family of new Motorola phones, where the Cliq stands at the patronymic fore. As far as features go, Cliq is doing all right. The phone is complete [...]
For Microsoft Outlook users unfamiliar with Xobni, pay attention. The venture-backed company’s first piece of software, not even two years old, is a powerful advancement for e-mail organization, Outlook style. Wednesday, the new version of the tool is available, Xobni1.8 which provides additional power. In addition, the previously free plugin is offering an advanced version, [...]
Ever since June of last year there has been talks of Verizon and Alltel merging, but now it is official. Verizon wireless has now become the largest mobile carrier with over 83 million subscribers. Alltel will continue to run under the Alltel name until a complete merger of the two brands later this year. Now [...]
Pioneer has released a statement saying they have developed a Super Multi-Layered Disc that will play using current Blu-ray players. The disc consists of 16 layers that can hold 25GB of data each, which totals a 400GB Disc. They plan on having a read-only disc available by 2010, a rewritable by 2012, and a 1TB [...]
One of the biggest reasons most Windows users are sticking with Firefox over Google Chrome is its extensibility—and the most popular Firefox extension by far among Lifehacker readers is Adblock Plus.
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