SF News Facebook Changes How It Will Experiment On You Two apologies in one week! Crazytown. Fast on the heels of apologizing to the LGBT community and everyone else for their "real-name" policy, Facebook has issued a statement apologizing for that debacle over
SF News Anti-Facebook Social Network Ello Sees Major Spike In Sign-Ups I, like a number of my friends, have been itching for some alternative to the mind-altering, all-consuming world of Facebook, now that the company has proven itself to be less than progressive when
SF News Space Race 2.0: Facebook Matches Google Balloons With Internet Drones Facebook will match your balloon and up you a drone. Just as Google put a brave face on its Project Loon, the mission to blanket the world in internet broadcast from high-altitude balloons,
SF News Former Twitter Guy Laments Difficulty Of Securing Parking Pass For His Nanny Tech people: they're just like you and me. They see the world in ones and zeroes, they abhor a misplaced semicolon and they hate it when San Francisco's bureaucracy makes it difficult for
SF News Investor Peter Thiel Thinks There's 'A Lot Of Pot Smoking' Going On At Twitter, Twitter Responds [Updated] Eccentric billionaire angel investor Peter Thiel who was used as the basis for the eccentric billionaire investor character Peter Gregory on HBO's Silicon Valley appeared on CNBC to talk about how he feels
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink S.F. Gets Its First Bitcoin ATM At FiDi Cafe Workshop Cafe (180 Montgomery Street) just became the first place in the city to have a BTM or Bitcoin Teller Machine on premises. The machine actually allows owners of bitcoin to convert the
SF News Will Tech Workers Get Dinged By The IRS For Free Lunches? You know how all the big tech companies employ their own executive chefs and provide lovely lunch and dinner options to their employees every day so no one ever has to leave the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Are Caviar, SpoonRocket, And Instacart Doomed To Go The Way Of Kozmo And Webvan? Remember when you could order two CDs for $20 delivered to your door in a half hour with a free cookie? No? Well that was part of the failed business model of Kozmo.
SF News Now In S.F., Eccentric Former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Is Launching An Audio-Tour Company Ousted Groupon founder Andrew Mason, now 34, has relocated to San Francisco, lost 30 pounds, and since last fall he's been working on a new venture: Detour. It's a mobile app, currently in
SF News New App Provides Valet Parking Service Anywhere In SoMa Being the hub of techie San Francisco, Inner SoMa is the geographical limit of a new app that connects people in cars desperate to park with people who are willing to park them,
SF News New Startup Lets You Buy A Car With Bitcoin A new online used-car marketplace is running a promotion in which, if you are a nerd who happens to have a lot of bitcoin saved up, you can purchase a car with that
SF News 12 Words Of Advice For Tech Industry Transplants New To S.F. I realize I got a touch snippy in that open letter last week to a couple of New York Times tech writers who had recently moved away from San Francisco and who only
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 MonkeyParking Says 'F**k Off' To San Francisco, Refuses To Shut Down After City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued a cease and desist order earlier this week to the Italian startup MonkeyParking the mobile app that lets users auction off prime street parking spots for cash
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 TechCrunch Writer Has Another Solution To Our Housing Crisis TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler, who was responsible for the widely shared April piece "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)," is back with a new piece that's
SF News Multiple Top Executives Leaving Twitter, Stock Price Plummets [Updated] Is anyone hearing a popping sound? This week saw the departures of two higher-ups at Twitter, COO Ali Rowghani and media unit head Chloe Sladden. As Recode notes, Sladden's departure is not unexpected
SF News Google Is Mostly White Males, Admits Google As the conversation continues about diversity in tech, Google has finally released data on the company's gender and ethnicity breakdown. The numbers, a Google exec freely admits, are "not where we want to
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 Anonymous Craigslister Seeks Facebook Devotees For Zuckerberg-Based Religion Tech pundits don't exalt Mark Zuckerberg as the boy-god they once did, but one San Francisco follower of all things Zuckerbergian is looking for a few fellow disciples to help him create a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Rolling Out Video Reviews, Because It's Not Self-Indulgent Enough Next month, to augment user-uploaded photos of restaurants and dishes on their reviews, Yelp will be offering the ability to upload videos of businesses as well, presumably with audio comment. I'm looking forward
SF News One-Hour Battery Life And Other Reasons Google Glass Might Suck One of the first tech writers to be balls-out honest instead of sycophantically, droolingly gaga about the functionality of Google Glass is Computer World's Matt Lake. In a piece titled "Why I'm Sending
