SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now You Can Buy And Sell S.F. Restaurant Reservations Too The increasingly distasteful "sharing economy," which is becoming more of an "a**hole economy" with every new greed-driven app, takes another step in a distasteful direction with ReservationHop, a site that lets people
SF News Young MonkeyParking Founder Comes To S.F. To Fight For His Annoying App Last week we were talking about that cease-and-desist order from the City Attorney against those egregious parking apps that allow assholes to auction their public parking spots to other assholes for cash. Well,
SF News An Open Letter To Two <i>New York Times</i> Writers Who Don't Get San Francisco At All New York Times reporters and ex-S.F. residents Nick Bilton and Mike Isaac just published an atrocious blog post in which they interview one another about what they both loved and what they'll
SF News Passive-Aggressive Neighbor Notes Get Tech Bro Spin Check out this pretty hilarious neighbor war that played out recently in an unidentified San Francisco elevator. A Redditor posted the pair letters below, taped to the wall of said elevator, proving that
SF News Why Won't Twitter Announce Its Diversity Numbers? File under a positive trend, but depressing news: Facebook is the latest tech company to reveal its workplace diversity demographics and the breakdown is as white and male as data recently released by
SF News Fools Spent $600 In Order To Take Break From Cell Phones It sounds like an Onion headline. But it's not! There was just another one of those digital detox things happening nearby, for all those people who have a hard time separating from their
SF News Map Shows What Muni Stops Will Be Shared With Tech Shuttles Though the pilot program to allow corporate shuttles (AKA "Google Buses") to share Muni stops got its final OK in April, the SFMTA has moved in its own considered pace to figure out
SF News Two Tech Billionaires Have Shouting Match About Housing Crisis, Ed Lee At Bloomberg's Next Big Thing conference in Sausalito today, local billionaires Ron Conway and Chamath Palihapitiya got into a shouting match about how to solve San Francisco's housing crisis, and whether Mayor Ed
SF News Uber Valued at $18.2 Billion, Now One Of The Biggest Companies In Bay Area With a new valuation on Friday that came with a $1.2 billion influx of cash, Uber is now second only to Facebook in terms of the pre-IPO investment sum that it has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Regarding Soylent, The Nutritional Shake Invented By S.F.-Based Brogrammers With No Time To Eat Soylent, the unfortunately named food substitute named after the fictional Soylent Green, which was made out of human flesh is now available for online sale, and it is just as depressing and redundant
SF News Mission District Spared Google Office, Receives Chocolate Instead Back in February, rumors swirled that Google would be buying a building in San Francisco's hallowed Mission District. It was billed as an attempt to lure more tech talent that wasn't keen on
SF News Snapchat's Frat Boy Founder Has A Gross Messaging History The innuendo surrounding Snapchat's rise to ubiquity always veered towards conversations of sexting and deleting the evidence. Unfortunately for Snapchat's CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel, there wasn't a similar feature for emails sent
SF News YouTube To Buy S.F.-Based Video Game Streaming Service For $1 Billion According to Hollywood trade magazine Variety, Google and YouTube plan to purchase San Francisco-based video game streaming service Twitch for over $1 billion in cash. Launched in summer of 2011, Twitch was spun
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 3 Recap: Small Is The New Big "Because if we can make your audio and video files smaller, we can make cancer smaller. And hunger. And AIDS." This week's episode opens with those words, from Hooli's evil overlord Gavin Belson,
SF News Marc Benioff Has A Few Things To Say About Tech Companies Who Don't Give Back, And Zuckerberg's 'Philanthropy' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose company just inked a deal that includes naming rights for what's going to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, has no patience for his peers who
SF News Google Has Now Patented A Contact Lens Camera Oh, for god's sake. The overlords at the Googleplex, not satisfied to have everyone wearing face computers that can easily attract shaming and be snatched off their faces, are at work on a
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 2 Recap: How To Become An A**hole To kick off the second episode of the new HBO comedy from Office Space/King of the Kill genius Mike Judge, we have a very sad five-person "launch party" in the Palo Alto
Arts & Entertainment If Christopher Guest Made A Musical About Facebook, It Would Contain This Song Sweet mother of all that is holy, we are in trouble. At the recent 2014 Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, this guy wrote this song. It's about social media. Audience
SF News Female Designer Tells Secret App That Google Acquired Everyone At Her Startup But Her Is it just because she's a woman? Is it because she has "soft skills" like design and marketing that Google doesn't necessarily need? In any event, the saga of "Amy" has the tech
Arts & Entertainment VICE Chimes In On The Many Ways San Francisco Sucks Not content to let New York Magazine have the last word on the topic, VICE has jumped on the SF-hating bandwagon. The points they cover? Nothing to see here, really. Tech bros are
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Episode 1 Recap: Welcome To Palo Alto The Bay Area's starring role in the zeitgeist was boosted again last night with the premiere of HBO's Silicon Valley, the second new HBO show this season to take place here. But unlike
SF News We're Probably In Tech Bubble Territory, Says Everyone Everyone's been talking about it for over a year, but the chatter is turning into a rumble among business pundit types just as the S&P Index hits another record high. Yes,
SF News Board Of Supervisors Reject Bid To Hold Up Tech Shuttles In a marathon meeting Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 8-2 to reject an appeal that would have put the brakes on the city's plan to allow commuter shuttles at Muni stops
SF News Protestors Block Tech Shuttles With Actual Barf RT @revscript: 3 #techbus blockaded at MacArthur Bart, police on scene #googlebus pic.twitter.com/M46aczU3Q5— Casey Aldridge (@CaseyJAldridge) April 2, 2014 Taking a cue from Lady Gaga's latest performance piece/Doritos product
Arts & Entertainment 'Ultimate April Fools Joke' Gmail Turns 10 Today Disbelief at the reminder that Gmail was first announced on April 1, 2004 abounds. Can you believe that we once lived in a world where Gmail was not the dominant free webmail service?
