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• Geek Love: With so many special-interest dating sites ...

  Published: August 15, 2007, 11:45 am

  Tags: Geek Love

  With so many special-interest dating sites around that focus on everything from ethnicity to bank balance, it's no wonder that the geeks have created a "safe space" for themselves to hook up online.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Geek Love: Julia Allison breaks up with her nerd boyfriend

  Published: September 19, 2007, 1:04 pm

  Tags: Geek Love, Jakob Lodwick, Joel Spolsky, Julia Allison, Vimeo

  How typical: Julia Allison, the New York dating columnist and TV personality, has broken up with her boyfriend, Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick. By blog post. And email. Yes, she has, at last, become one with the byways of Silicon Valley. Gawker has the blow-by-blow. So why should anyone on this coast care? Only to note the spread of our unfortunate

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• Leah Culver: Pownce engineer picks fight with Kevin Rose

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:47 am

  Tags: Digg, Geek Love, Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, Pownce

  Ah, we remember a day when relations between the creators of Pownce, the online message board backed by Digg founder Kevin Rose, were, well, kinder. But now Pownce coder Leah Culver, pictured here, has started a spat with Rose, using his own Digg site to accuse Digg of copying Pownce. Digg has added more social features, it's true -- and

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• Geek Love: New York faux-celebrity Julia Allison and ...

  Published: October 1, 2007, 2:49 pm

  Tags: Geek Love, Jakob Lodwick, Julia Allison, Vimeo

  New York faux-celebrity Julia Allison and online-video entrepreneur Jakob Lodwick, founder of Vimeo, are back together, following Lodwick's public posting of a pseudo-apology on his blog. Of course, Allison had to nudge him by text message to write it. We hear the makeup sex was anything but virtual, though. [Obeastiality]

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• Superficial: Leah and Brad's breakup leaves gossip blog despondent

  Published: October 17, 2007, 4:04 pm

  Tags: Brad Fitzpatrick, Geek Love, Leah Culver, Superficial

  Brad 'n' Leah could be our geek Brangelina. Both partners were sufficiently techie, and, thankfully, good-looking enough to get on a year-end hot geeks lists. Also, neither seemed afraid of a bit of drama. For example, Culver's recent staged snit against Rose where she claimed Digg ripped off Pownce, and Fitzpatrick's confrontation of a

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• Julia Allison: New York nobody calls for innovative new platform

  Published: October 22, 2007, 1:36 pm

  Tags: Geek Love, Julia Allison

  has a new request for geeks, besides some hot, sweaty configuration of her servers. Because she can't keep herself from stalking ex-boyfriends, Allison wants "a small platform" that "blocks whatever URLs you type in (including Facebook profiles, Flickr photostreams, even, yeah, Vimeo channels), for a limited period of time, which you can

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• Geek Love: Google and Facebook's cross-platform affair

  Published: October 25, 2007, 3:04 pm

  Tags: Dave Morin, Facebook, Geek Love, Google, Social Networks, Superficial

  Now that Google has lost to Microsoft in the Great Facebook Battle of 2007, I imagine relations between the search giant and the $15 billion social network are only getting frostier. Facebook is continuing to poach Google's employees, for one. And Google plans to strike back by launching a platform for social applications next month. All that has

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• Is Matt Mullenweg getting Harde? [Geek Love]

  Published: October 26, 2007, 5:36 pm

  Tags: Automattic, Conferences, Geek Love, Heather Harde, Matt Mullenweg, Techcrunch, The Lobby, Top, Wordpress

  When David Hornik pitched VCs and entrepreneurs on his tropical funconference, The Lobby, part of the sell was that the whole affair was to be off the record. Ha! Good one, David. Turns out what happens in Hawaii only stays there long enough to launch itself toward our inbox. Take for example, what struck some attendees as a budding romance

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• Larry and Lucy to wed on Necker Island? [Rumormonger]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 2:44 pm

  Tags: Gawker, Geek Love, Google, Jezebel, Larry Page, Lucy Southworth, Richard Branson, Rumormonger, Top, Weddings

  So, where do you vacation when you're a multibillionaire? Try crashing at your billionaire friend's place. According to a source close to Lucy Southworth, Google cofounder Larry Page's fiancée has reserved Necker Island, the Caribbean hideaway of Virgin megamogul Richard Branson, for Larry and Lucy's upcoming nuptials. The location is

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• Oh, Lala: Kevin Rose explains haircut, doesn't explain date [Superficial]

  Published: November 19, 2007, 7:12 pm

  Tags: Geek Love, Kevin Rose, Lala, Lara Doucette, Sarah Lane, Superficial, Tikibartv

  We noted Digg founder Kevin Rose's tragic haircut when we first saw a glimpse of it in picture from last month's Lobby conference. We saw the entrepreneur at a party Saturday night and can tell you that the cut looks better in person than it does in pictures, though four weeks worth of growth probably helps. So why did Rose shed his trademark

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• Peter Thiel crush alert! [Geek Love]

  Published: November 21, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Bloggers, Damion Matthews, Facebook, Geek Love, Peter Thiel

  San Francisco real-estate agent and blogger Damion Matthews, left, apparently has a bit of a thing for Facebook board member and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel, right. Matthews, who first blogged about Thiel in April, recently declared the financier "dreamy." Well, handsome enough, we'd say, but hardly dreamy. At any rate, we hate to break it to

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• iPhone ballerina refuses to play with boyfriend's device [Geek Love]

  Published: November 23, 2007, 2:00 pm

  Tags: Apple, Clips, Geek Love, Iphone, Kristin Sloan

  That woman who says she's a ballerina in an ad for Apple's iPhone? She's real, her name is Kristin Sloan and she's really an iPhone blogger, the New York Observer reports. But drooling is as far as you're going to get, fanboys. Sloan lives with self-described "creative entrepreneur" Doug Jaeger in New York. Though there may be hope, at least to

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• What's Sup with Brad Fitzpatrick? [Geek Love]

  Published: December 3, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Brad Fitzpatrick, Geek Love, Leah Culver, Livejournal, Six Apart, Sup

  Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal, is a Silicon Valley archetype: The brilliant engineer and troubled young man. In noisily quitting Six Apart, the San Francisco-based software company which acquired his company two years ago, one of the reasons he gave was that he was tired of working on LiveJournal. Now Sup, the Russian company

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• $25 for anyone who can get this guy a date [Geek Love]

  Published: December 4, 2007, 4:12 pm

  Tags: Brett Petersel, Gawker, Geek Love

  it: Can you help a brother geek out?

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• Jakob and Julia reprogram each other [Geek Love]

  Published: December 5, 2007, 6:20 pm

  Tags: Clips, Geek Love, Jakob Lodwick, Julia Allison, Vimeo

  Now that Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick no longer has a job, he's clearly turned his attention to solving a new problem: Hacking Julia Allison. From what we can see here, he's a master of social engineering. Garbage in, garbage out.

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