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• Users Guide: Midtown East

  Published: July 26, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Asking For It, Clips, Midtown East, Murray Hell, Murray Hill, Top, Users Guide

  newVideoPlayer("ug_midtown_east_gawker.flv", 475, 376); There's a lot to unpack in Midtown East. A bunch of neighborhoods rolled into one, the area stretches from Gramercy Park in the south to the...

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• Silicon Valley Users Guide: Go shine your sales guy's shoes

  Published: October 8, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Sales, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Top

  This morning, while the techies slept in, sales teams all over the Valley gathered for "Q4 kickoff." They're getting trained on the latest version of their company's late, buggy products. They'll be handed their "comp plan" -- the sales quota, commission, and bonus -- for the year's final quarter. The stragglers who didn't make last quarter's

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• Silicon Valley Users Guide: The funniest site you're still not reading

  Published: October 24, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Silicon Valley Users Guide, Uncov

  Uncov is a hot little site that posts cruelly funny reviews of the same Web 2.0 companies and products that appear on TechCrunch. People who read it think everyone else does, too. They're wrong. So: A newbie's intro to Uncov.Ted is the site's star writer. A computer scientist by training, he's naturally repulsed by the flimsy, poorly executed

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• Silicon Valley Users Guide: Gossiping to reporter backfires -- hurray!

  Published: October 24, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Dave Winer, Feature, Great Moments In Journalism, Michael Arrington, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Techcrunch, Top

  I'll be sad if Techcrunch editor Michael Arrington ever figures out what all those tedious journalism-school terms like off the record and deep background actually mean. Because I hate the way tech people act as if Arrington and other established writers work for them. They see journalists as outsourced copywriters, under specific orders what and

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• Why no one's searching for your Web 2.0 site [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: November 6, 2007, 1:55 pm

  Tags: Search, Silicon Valley Users Guide

  You've built a shiny new website. But Google's steadfastly ignoring you. Why? SearchEngineLand's Chris Silver Smith has the explanation. Your Ajax-ridden site couldn't lasso a search engine spider if it stood there blinking at you. Here's what you need to do to cajole Google and Yahoo's robotic Web-crawlers over to your site, and get them to feast

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• How to coast to a writing career [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: November 7, 2007, 8:08 am

  Tags: Great Moments In Journalism, Media, Silicon Valley Users Guide

  that is, you follow my easy guide to slacking your way to the top -- well, not really the top, but sort of near the top. Which is the whole idea.Before you read this list, set up a new Gmail account with a name like john.smith.writer@gmail.com. If you don't, you're screwed. OK. You want to get paid. You don't want to work. The way to do

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• 8 steps to getting fans on Facebook [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: November 8, 2007, 2:55 pm

  Tags: Facebook, Lifehacker, Robert Scoble, Self Promotion, Self Referential, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Social Networks, Top

  provide a do-it-yourself guide to the new offering, but it turns out anyone can sign up, easily. Valleywag now has a page on Facebook. After the jump, step-by-step instructions on how to get your own.Go to Facebook and click on "Businesses" at the bottom of the page. Click on "Facebook Pages." Click on "Create a Facebook Page." Select

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• What the Valley can learn from Barry [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: November 16, 2007, 7:19 pm

  Tags: Barry Bonds, Silicon Valley Users Guide

  Face it: The man can hit. Home run king Barry Bonds couples an uncanny ability to see the ball's incoming trajectory -- before it leaves the pitcher's hand -- with nearly superhuman slugging power. I've never been a sports nut, but watching Bonds knock the ball into the bay is a million times better than reading "Inside Baseball" articles about

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• How to demonstrate software, the 100-word version [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: November 20, 2007, 8:00 pm

  Tags: Joel Spolsky, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Software

  Maybe you went to last night's Web 2.0 Social Networking Tech Meetup in Chelsea. Put on by the same people who hosted New York's first Lunch 2.0 last month, the event was a fine stage for a wantrepreneur to turn the corner. Presenters Snooth, Buddy Media and Convos, however, tripped over themselves in trying to display their wares. Fortunately,

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• How to have your boss over for dinner -- the 100-word version [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: November 28, 2007, 8:09 pm

  Tags: Silicon Valley Users Guide

  It's the holiday season and you know what that means. Time to invite the CEO over for dinner. The move from VP to SVP didn't come cheap, pal. But don't panic. The Financial Times -- of all places -- has the recipe you need to survive this meal. Here's our 100-word version. Here's FT columnist Lucy Kellaway's advice, condensed:My husband once

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• They're annoying. They're tragic. They're Apple fans [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: December 4, 2007, 9:02 pm

  Tags: Apple, Feature, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Top

  Self-appointed Apple evangelists are far and away the Valley's most exasperating demographic. Yet I feel sorry for them.There are zealots for anything interesting in tech -- blogging, Wikipedia, digital media sharing, Facebook -- but Apple evangelists put everyone else to shame. Why? It's the cross product of two powerful factors: Most

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• The miserable millionaires [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: December 5, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Christine Comaford Lynch, Feature, Google, Microsoft, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Top

  Entrepreneur Christine Comaford-Lynch (above, in an old Fortune photo) has gone from Valley millionaire to bestselling author with her memoir-slash-business book, Rules for Renegades. But making a million or two in stock options could be the worst thing that ever happens to you. Why?Because if you're rich, you don't have to work hard. So you

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• How to spot a golddigger [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: December 5, 2007, 3:57 pm

  Tags: Jason Calacanis, Silicon Valley Users Guide

  From this morning's link to a New York Observer article about up-and-coming Net moguls including Jason Calacanis:One dotcom chief executive claims there is a sure-fire way to tell if a woman he meets is only interested in his money. "The women start talking to him about charities," she said. "They want to be the next Melinda Gates."

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• How to turn off Facebook's Grinch [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: December 6, 2007, 1:40 pm

  Tags: Beacon, Facebook, Silicon Valley Users Guide, Your Privacy Is An Illusion

  You've heard the horror stories about how Facebook's Beacon ads can ruin your Christmas. Even though Overstock.com -- the online retailer whose use of Beacon caused most of the uproar -- has turned Beacon off, there's no telling who Zuckerberg might sucker into installing the ads next. Take action now. Use Facebook's new privacy options to turn

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• Productivity, here I come! [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Published: December 6, 2007, 11:27 am

  Tags: Jordan Golson, Paul Boutin, Self Referential, Silicon Valley Users Guide

  Valleywag very special correspondent Paul Boutin has been touting the advantages of huge computer monitors for years. He's been encouraging me to pick up a 22" Dell monitor ever since I started writing full time. Did you know that they're almost identical to Apple's fancy screens -- for half the price? I didn't. Today's PhD comic lets me know just

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