The Nob Hill Gazette, a San Francisco "society" publication, has come up with a list of area eligibles, including a wife beater and more than one gay man. Hard to be a straight woman here!

Having turned down Microsoft's $50 million offer, live video site Ustream.tv today announced $11.1 million in venture capital. Yesterday, mobile video startup Qik announced it raised another $3 million from Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff, VC Arjun Gupta and entrepreneur George Garrick. If a recession is going to take your jobs, close the doors to rich payoffs, and kill your deals, the least it could do is knock live Robert Scoble andLoren Feldman broadcasts off the Internet.