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Source:Valleywag

On the left, beatific investor Rob Hayes of First Round Capital. On the right, worshipful Xobni cofounder Adam Smith, genuflecting before the man who graced his startup with the tall dollars, and helped fund a night of excess last Friday.

Xobni, an email-organization startup launched by Paul Graham’s Y Combinator incubator, has not yet launched an actual product. But no matter! They threw a party last Friday to celebrate their new office in San Francisco’s Financial District. I, alas, skipped the affair, which, in retrospect, was a bad decision (no kidding -Ed.), because judging from the pictures, they had a hell of a time. So, what is Xobni, exactly? From the tipster who alerted us to the photos:

They’ve been around forever, have raised tons of money, rented a ginormous office in a historic building in the financial district, but have yet to release a product.

Sounds like the perfect reason to throw a bash.

Source:Valleywag

In school, were you forced to work on group projects — alone — while your classmates lounged around the Nintendo? Too ashamed to rat them out, did you let them take credit for your work? Well, San Jose startup BzzyBee wants to do the tattling for you. It has developed a collaborative Web work environment, a la 37Signal’s Basecamp, aimed at educators and students. While it has a few helpful tools, like automatic citation of Web sources, it also is looking to disrupt school’s social order. This is, in a word, awful, and must be stopped.

Once students are logged in to BzzyBee, the workspace will screen submissions for inappropriate language, the exchange of emails or phone numbers, and soon, threatening statements. This means there will be no opportunity to score prom dates. And BzzyBee will put a stop to online bullying. The old days of forcing those smarter than you to do your work are over. Next, I’m sure, it will notify my mom when it’s time to attack your mom’s poor parenting skills. Silicon Valley companies should treat this as a serious threat to future recruitment plans. Without the emotional scars provided by ill treatment at school, how will the next generation of MBAs intimidate the next generation of geeks into obeying their orders?

Source:Valleywag
Legendary satire publication The Onion presents a faux-magazine cover story with the headline every editor in the Valley wishes he could run about Facebook’s CEO — but knows he can’t. (Image by The Onion)

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