nerdspotting
Steve Jobs: Relaxing in Hawaii?
Ryan Tate · 07/15/10 05:39PMTwitter CEO's Secret Microsoft Visit
Ryan Tate · 05/20/10 05:07PMTwitter CEO Evan Williams is quietly attending the annual "CEO Summit" at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, TechFlash reports, even though his second in command is busy at conferences too. We'd suggest sale negotiations, except that "Windows Live Twitter" sounds so very implausible and wrong.
Close Encounters of the Steve Jobs Kind (Part 3)
Ryan Tate · 04/06/10 10:53AMA Treasure Trove of Steve Jobs Stories
Ryan Tate · 03/31/10 01:30PMHow Steve Jobs Behaves in Public
Ryan Tate · 03/30/10 12:36PMGoogle CEO's Public and Private Moments With 'Ex' Girlfriend
Ryan Tate · 09/23/09 04:31PMEric Schmidt Hanging With Girlfriend on Fire Island?
Ryan Tate · 08/17/09 04:05PMSteve Jobs Driving Himself to Work Again, Apparently
Ryan Tate · 08/13/09 07:51PMSteve Jobs' Privacy Compromised with Device He Invented
Ryan Tate · 07/29/09 08:04PMSteve Jobs, Coldplay Groupie
Ryan Tate · 07/16/09 11:05AMFirst Sighting of Steve Jobs Officially Back at Work
Ryan Tate · 06/29/09 05:44PMThe Woz Cuts iPhone Line
Ryan Tate · 06/19/09 04:08PMIs Former Exec Still Tangled in Facebook's Web?
Owen Thomas · 03/31/09 06:10PMMicrosoft CEO, Yahoo Chairman Meet in New York
Owen Thomas · 01/16/09 04:30AMLuke Wilson just another bored Twitter user?
Owen Thomas · 12/03/08 04:20PMStars — they're just like us, if by "us" you mean "people who use the Internet too much." Luke Wilson, the Hollywood B-lister best known for playing a schlubby everyman, also appears to be a typical user of Twitter, the blogging service which sanely limits its users' oversharing to 140 characters at a time, when it's not actively destroying the news business. Someone signed up for a "LukeWilson" account back in April.
Whose Tesla is this at our favorite bar?
Paul Boutin · 11/12/08 12:55AMFacebook CFO in two places at once
Owen Thomas · 11/07/08 03:00PMWe've always been impressed by Facebook CFO Gideon Yu's ability to snooker investors around the world. The list of people he's taken for a ride include Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Hong Kong telecom mogul Li Ka-Shing. Just last Friday, he returned from a trip to Dubai, where he tried to shake loose some petrodollars from the Middle Eastern emirate's sovereign wealth funds. Some people seem to think Yu is still in Dubai. Which would be quite a feat, considering he's been spotted in Facebook's Palo Alto headquarters multiple times this week. Perhaps he's using CNN's new hologram technology?
Wealthy wantrepreneur Sam Lessin shows face in public
Owen Thomas · 10/17/08 05:00PMDrop.io founder Sam Lessin, the son of Croesus-rich Wall Street investment banker turned venture capitalist Bob Lessin, is obsessed with privacy, the chief selling point of his file-sharing startup. Which is why a video he and 19 of his closest friends filmed themselves cavorting at his father's vacation home in Cyprus ended up splashed all over the Internet. And why, after he'd successfully rendered himself infamous, he turned out at a journalist-infested birthday party thrown for CNET News reporter Caroline McCarthy and Scott Kidder, an employee at Valleywag publisher Gawker Media. Sure, Sam — keep telling everyone how important privacy is. And don't stop walking in front of cameras. He's shown here, at left, with a companion who's much more skilled at keeping his identity secret. (Photo by Random Night Out)
Dressing up as Neo for Halloween is so 2000
Owen Thomas · 10/15/08 06:00PM"Nice to see Marissa living large in a sharp economic downturn," snarks a tipster about the latest society outing of Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president in charge of the stuff people actually use, at the opening of Tory Burch's clothing boutique on Union Square's Maiden Lane. His anti-Marissa rant continues: