Home / valleywag.com rss archive / September-23-2007


Geeks Gone Wild: John Perry Barlow's bacchanal on Clayton Street
John Perry Barlow, pictured, the former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and one-time roommate of Valley bad boy Sean Parker, threw a party Saturday as a benefit for The Center for Sex & Culture. It's too bad this invitation arrived late, because the party sounded like a doozy, with the promised attendance of "Famous porn stars, infamous porn stars, and miscellaneous sluts." Does anyone who went have a report? And pictures please? The long, insane, and hilarious invitation after the jump. ^ <(o)> /_ _\--> B a R L o W F R i e N D Z -----><This is one of a series of occasional outbursts to people I like.Please let me know if you'd rather not receive it. But you'll misssome great parties if you un-subscribe...I do try to keep this list to actual friends - by that I mean folkswho might bail me out of jail - or, at...

Rumormonger: Who's not coming to Demo? The startup that got kicked out
We hear that Chris Shipley and the rest of the Demo conference team are coming down hard on companies who violate their exclusive contract. A tipster "has it on on good authority" that one presenting company has been "yanked off the stage" at tomorrow's fall Demo conference in San Diego, because it demo'd its wares at Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis's competing TechCrunch40 conference last week. No surprise there: The whole point of these startup-demonstration conferences is to show something new, and an already-launched product won't make the cut. But Shipley's crew is being especially tough: We hear that the company isn't gettting its $18,000 entrance fee back either. So who is the culprit? And did they make the main stage, or did they lose out on Demo just for debuting in TechCrunch40's also-ran DemoPit? If you know anything more, fill us in.