Archive for the 'Hall of Fame' Category

Although this Fortune.com article is a few months old, it is still one of the best summaries of what the key PayPal alumni are up to now.

Profile personalities include:

• Peter Thiel
• Max Levchin
• Elon Musk
• Reid Hoffman
• and many more

Check it out and enjoy!

Yesterday, Hewlett-Packard announced its intent to acquire Opsware for more than $1.6 billion. The big winner in this deal is Marc Andreessen, better known for his success with Netscape. At HP’s offer price, Andreesen stands to gain $138 million after the acquisition.

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by Brion Lau

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch the live broadcast announcing the Oakland Athletics move to Cisco Field in Fremont, California.  Rather than rehashing old news, I’d like to focus on John Chambers.  Let’s stir the pot a bit.

Should we consider including him in the PopDigerati Hall of Fame?  No one would dispute Chambers as being a deft politician and a savvy businessman.  However, let’s see what Chambers is doing to change the world through Cisco:

1. Expanding the Cisco Networking Academy program in the Middle East region to bridge IT skill gaps and shortage of networking professionals
2. Cisco claims it is empowering the human network with “solutions that connect, secure and empower people”.
3. New forms of communication such as Voice over IP (part of their Unified Communications Solution) and TelePresence (really cool stuff)

Read more about John’s vision here.

On the other hand, some may argue that Cisco is a more established company that is not really leading the way with the latest Web 2.0 technologies on its own corporate website or keeping up with cutting edge e-commerce capabilities.

So what’s your opinion PopDigerati fans?

by Mike Fennelly

“If ignorant of the almighty

Time Cube Creation Truth

you deserve to be killed. “

[ed. note : THE TIME CUBE SITE DESTROYS HTML FORMATTING! YOUR IGNORANCE JACKASS EDUCATION OF TWO CORNER HTML CAN NOT WITHSTAND AWESOME POWER OF TIME CUBE ITALIC HOLDOVER!"]

[note to ed. note : Fixed.]

Wow. I guess I, and at least ONE MILLION (before beseen counter died) other people deserve to be killed, because there is absolutely no way in (four corner one day) hell that I can make head nor tail of this steaming pile of internet knowledge.

Apparently Gene Ray, the self proclaimed “Doctor of Cubism” and “Wisest Person On Earth” can, since he’s the one who foisted this eternal knowledge on to the universe at large, and to Georgia Tech and MIT, of all places.
Now, let’s take a closer look at some of this :

Here we have Socrates, The Clintons, Einstein, and Jesus playing bridge, I believe. Socrates is Dummy, and Jesus and the Clintons are trying to block a 3NT bid by Einstein and Socrates. This is a good move, since Jesus is holding Clubs : KJ and AJ10987 in diamonds. Jesus had originally wanted a Diamonds bid, but Einstein was extremely overconfident and pushed for NT. I’m not entirely sure where Omar Sharif fits in here, or if he’d approve of the contract, but that would push this into the realm of a five sided cube, rather than Gene Ray’s four sided cube, and thus Omar doesn’t get to kibbitz.

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Here, as you can see, Mr. Ray has clearly predicted today’s Sudoku craze in 1997. Admittedly, he has made it impossible to solve, since he’s using 16 boxes and only four numbers, but you can clearly see that his concept was stolen by the Japanese newspaper syndicates as an attempt to discredit his theory that “God Worship Equals Baby Eating”. Now – I was raised Catholic, and I honestly don’t recall ever having eaten a single baby as part of an organized service, or on my own during bedtime prayers. Perhaps there is a member of some other denomination or religion that would like to come forward, or possibly a hypnotherapist who can regress me to the age of footy pajamas, nighttime prayers, and baby-eating? And what of the polytheists? Does Mr. Ray expect them to eat babies in a 1:1 ratio with the number of worshipped Gods? Obviously I am too jackass ignorant to understand the mighty power of the time cube. In Mr. Ray’s own words (and formatting) :

“You are an educated singularity idiot who can stupidily deny Nature’s Harmonic 4 simultaneous 24 hour days within a single
rotation of Earth, or even make parody of the Cubic Creation Principle – but your mental ability to comprehend thegreatest
social and scientific discovery of all human existence has been lobotomized by the evil academic singularity bastards hired to
destroy your ability to think opposite”

You read it. You can’t unread it.

Seen anything more harebrained? Let us know!

by Mike Fennelly

How many times have you been forced to sit through yet another pointless two hour conference call with Ed from Accounting and Gustav from Marketing? How many times, during your Ed and Gustav quality time have you thought “You know what would really make this meeting more productive? A clown in bondage gear!” If you’re like me, every single frickin’ time.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present Ouchy the Clown.

Not only available to whip your meetings into shape, so to speak, he’ll also DJ your corporate functions, or just whale the living crap out of you for money!

(note to readers : please paypal mike@rubylashes.com large amounts of money so I can hire Ouchy to DJ my unsuspecting employer’s holiday party. I Am Not Kidding.)

Just look at that hulking mountain of…uh…er…semi-nude clown. Think about aformentioned hulking mountain of semi-nude clown standing in your conference room pointing out lurid details of the first quarter’s naughty, naughty losses.

Someone’s been a bad accountant, haven’t they? Haven’t they? And we know what Ouchy does do naughty accountants? Don’t we?

Well, actually, I guess we don’t. Nor do we really want to. Maybe.
Remember, folks – http://www.ouchytheclown.com – where the elite meet to get beat!

by Brion Lau

Ndm007 on Digg.com found an interesting article by Jessica Brown on the Times Online (UK) called, “Apple founder is still gadget mad”. After reading this article, you’ll find out:

1. Why Woz carries US$20,000 in cash
2. Whether or not he uses credit cards
3. His views on money
4. His most outrageous purchase

While these are good questions, I would have thrown in a few more into the mix. Why not ask the following:

• What is your must have gadget that you absolutely cannot live without?
• How did you get into Segway polo matches of all things?

If you met Woz, what would you want to know?!

by Mike Fennelly

Well, I guess with the Borat movie opening up this weekend, we should go digging through the depths of the bowels of the subbasements of the net to produce for you one Mr. Mahir Cagri. Truly the proto-Borat, if there ever was one. Mehir, it seems, was a wee bit lonely back in the stone age of 1999, and was looking for a bit of female companionship. Someone turned him on to the wonders of the internet, taught him the blink tag and how to embed images, and the internet gained an instant celebrity. These days, his site is no more professional, but – alas – the pure innocence of a Turkish man who just wants to kiss you has been sullied by crass commercialism. He’s got videos now though, so that makes it almost worthwhile.

UPDATE  : Mehir pizzed the off, for really — Is he making for the sue? If you good with the law, maybe he kiss you and let you work on the contingency!

Also, If you look in the comments section here, One Mr. Johnny Monkey seems to have his own personal beef with Borat. Either that or he just wants to promote his website. One thing that you can be sure of : He’s no Mehir.

Welcome to the PopDigerati world, Mehir. May it get you kissed.

by Brion Lau

If you haven’t heard yet, Yahoo! is hosting a talent show or as Jerry says, “Help save the web from bad videos.” The winner will be awarded a $50,000 cash prize and an opportunity to star in or produce their own Yahoo! show.

This sounds like the Yahooligans are hatching an experiment to assess the popularity of new media as a channel for delivering “not so novel concepts” (think “America’s Got Talent” on Yahoo!).

What do you think of this idea? Do you think this will cross the digital divide and get Hollywood to take notice? Your guess is as good as mine. In the meantime, we’ll be watching Yang’s experiment like the rest of you to see who becomes the next “Web Celeb”.