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Analysis: Business 2.0 vs. Valleywag

Authored by Scott Karp on June 15, 2007 - 10:28am.

Business 2.0 has had another trend defining staff departure, following the departure of blogger Om Malik last year to launch his own media company. Now, the news is that Business 2.0 editor Owen Thomas will be the new editor of Valleywag, the tech gossip blog run by gossip monger Nick Denton (picture). What I find interesting about this news is how it reflects the evolution of magazine media — particularly the staffing model.

Report: Second Life owner Linden Lab Raises New Money, Gets $750 Million Valuation

Authored by Jay Baage on June 6, 2007 - 9:35am.

Linden Lab, owners of 3D virtual world Second Life, is rumored to have closed another financing round. A source tells Valleywag that the amount raised wasn't huge, but the valuation number being quoted for Linden Lab is now $750m. I don't know how reliable thee rumors are, but with the buzz surrounding Second Life in particular and virtual worlds in general, it's not a surprise that investors want to ride that wave. An indication that Linden Lab is not worried about its finances right now is that they have 68 open positions on its website (and the company just hosted a recruiting party on the evening of May 30 in Boston.)

Buzz Watch: Valleywag's Mac Ad Parody

Authored by Jay Baage on May 18, 2007 - 9:00am.

Which is better, San Francisco or the warmer but geekier Silicon Valley? Valleywag takes a crack at a mac ad parody. It's funny so it gets embed, but seriously, enough of these Mac vs PC spoofs now, YouTube has like a million of them and most stink.

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Rumor Mill: MySpace Buying Photobucket

Authored by Jay Baage on May 7, 2007 - 10:18am.

Photobucket, a popular site for storing, sharing, and publishing visual digital media, has concluded terms of a sale to Myspace, News Corporation's social network, according to the tech gossip rag Valleywag. If the deal is for real, it will be an interesting resolution to a quarrelsome but symbiotic relationship between the two companies.

Second Life Reveals True Population Statistics

Authored by Scott Goldberg on February 14, 2007 - 10:06am.

You have to give credit to Linden Lab for being honest. In a blog posted February 9th, the company described its “drive toward complete transparency and openness” by revealing key metrics in the virtual world. The most important figure – and the cause for the Second Life craze to begin with – is the total population, which as of today is listed at 3.6 million on the homepage. But the number of unique users, as the company points out in its new statistical analysis, is a little over half that at about 2 million.