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Valleywag, the Glossary

Index Valleywag

Valleywag was a Gawker Media blog with gossip and news about Silicon Valley personalities.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 33 relations: Anonymous blog, Blog, Bloomberg Businessweek, Business Insider, Clickbait, Daniel Lyons, David Pogue, Driving under the influence, Eric Schmidt, Gawker, Gawker Media, Gene Simmons, Google, Hacker News, John Markoff, Larry Page, Marissa Mayer, Melissa Gira Grant, Michael Arrington, Nicholas Carlson, Nick Denton, Open marriage, Owen Thomas (writer), Paul Boutin, Paul Graham (programmer), Sam Biddle, Silicon Valley, Suicide, TechCrunch, Techmeme, The Daily Telegraph, Walt Mossberg, Y Combinator.

  2. Culture of Silicon Valley
  3. Gawker Media
  4. Gossip blogs
  5. Internet properties disestablished in 2015

Anonymous blog

An anonymous blog is a blog without any acknowledged author or contributor.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek, previously known as BusinessWeek (and before that Business Week and The Business Week), is an American monthly business magazine published 12 times a year.

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Business Insider

Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.

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Clickbait

Clickbait (also known as link bait or linkbait) is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow ("click") that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading.

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Daniel Lyons

Daniel Lyons (born 1960) is an American writer.

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David Pogue

David Welch Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is an American technology and science writer and TV presenter, and correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.

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Driving under the influence

Driving under the influence (DUI) is the offense of driving, operating, or being in control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.

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Eric Schmidt

Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and as the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015.

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Gawker

Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers that was based in New York City and focused on celebrities and the media industry. Valleywag and Gawker are Gawker Media and Gossip blogs.

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Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and blog network.

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Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; חיים ויץ; born August 25, 1949) is an American musician.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Hacker News

Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship.

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John Markoff

John Gregory Markoff (born October 24, 1949) is a journalist best known for his work covering technology at The New York Times for 28 years until his retirement in 2016, and a book and series of articles about the 1990s pursuit and capture of hacker Kevin Mitnick.

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Larry Page

Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American businessman, computer scientist, and internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding Google with Sergey Brin.

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Marissa Mayer

Marissa Ann Mayer (born May 30, 1975) is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017.

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Melissa Gira Grant

Melissa Gira Grant (born 1978) is an American journalist.

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Michael Arrington

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Nicholas Carlson

Nicholas Carlson was the global editor-in-chief of Business Insider.

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Nick Denton

Nicholas Guido Anthony Denton (born 24 August 1966) is a British Internet entrepreneur, journalist, and blogger. Valleywag and Nick Denton are Gawker Media.

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Open marriage

Open marriage is a form of non-monogamy in which the partners of a dyadic marriage agree that each may engage in extramarital sexual or romantic relationships, without this being regarded by them as infidelity, and consider or establish an open relationship despite the implied monogamy of marriage.

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Owen Thomas (writer)

Owen Thomas (born March 30, 1972) is an American blogger, journalist, and entrepreneur who serves as managing editor of the San Francisco Business Times. Valleywag and Owen Thomas (writer) are Gawker Media.

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Paul Boutin

Paul Boutin (born December 11, 1961, in Lewiston, Maine) is an American former magazine writer and editor who writes about technology in a pop-culture context.

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Paul Graham (programmer)

Paul Graham (born November 13, 1964) is an English-American computer scientist, writer, entrepreneur and investor.

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Sam Biddle

Sam Faulkner Biddle (born 1986) is an American technology journalist. Valleywag and Sam Biddle are Gawker Media.

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Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that is a global center for high technology and innovation.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American global online newspaper focusing on topics regarding high-tech and startup companies.

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Techmeme

Techmeme is a technology news aggregator.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Walt Mossberg

Walter S. Mossberg (born March 27, 1947) is an American retired technology journalist and moderator.

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Y Combinator

Y Combinator Management, LLC (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator and venture capital firm launched in March 2005 which has been used to launch more than 4,000 companies.

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See also

Culture of Silicon Valley

Gawker Media

Gossip blogs

Internet properties disestablished in 2015

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valleywag

Also known as Vallywag.