Category Archives: Bubble Hotties

The Birth of the Proto-Bubble Hottie

Name that year, kiddos:
The area has sprouted computer-themed art galleries, a billiard hall and a Gold’s Gym, where former geeks can acquire new muscles to match their beefed-up social status. There is even “Gulch Gossip,” a column in a local computer magazine. Its author, who writes under the name Jonathan E., says, “My attitude is, [...]

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Bubble Hotties: “Let’s Join a Social Network Built Just For Two”

Everybody’s former internet-boyfriend ze frank, who was there for us every day until not too long ago, wakes us up this morning with this self-portrait of a love song…

“and omg i would luv that picture of you
taking a picture of you
holding the camera for me
in the bathroom mirror…”
I’m not the only one reminded of ze’s [...]

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Bubble Hotties: There’s GIRLS Outside the Bubble!

Says Valleywag’s Megan McCarthy:
“…if [Star editor-at-large Julia Allison's presence at TechCrunch9] is any indication, people outside of our little sphere are starting to pay attention, again, to the exuberance bubbling underneath Silicon Valley. The women who are about to invade the Valley are not the same gold-diggers as before, only out for that stock-option action. [...]

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Look! Condoms!

Apparently, unlike BlogHer, there’s no condom vendors at South by Southwest for Nick Douglas (nee: Valleywag, whose launch we blogged once-upon-a-time, now lost to the mists of dead servers) to whore himself out to for a sponsorship at his video blog, Look! Shiny!.
See here:

(revlogged via lookshiny.com)
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We could say we don’t know what kind of condoms [...]

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Bubble Hotties: Dating In Public

Like many of the great sex and romance axioms of our time, this one was born out of Instant Messenger.
Goes a little something like this: once, there were clearer markers of what was public and what was private, who has celebrity and who’s just climbing a ladder to the stars, and what to expect [...]

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Bubble Hotties Roundup

Oh no they didn’t. Valleywag gives aspiring bubble hotties a HOWTO for faking your own hotness, should it have failed to kick in with your series B funding. They’ve got a case study and everything. Amazing. Trashy, yes, and amazing.
A surefire way to score with bubble hottie-chasing scenesters is to gently [...]

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The (Supposed) MySpace-ification of the Bubble Hottie

The bubble — (blogging about) it’s so hot right now. As the bubble (or, hopefully, not-a-bubble) grows, so too, does the collective hotness of the web and its makers. Here Sexerati tracks the ways web development and erotic development complement and complicate one another for those profiting from the web, and for those [...]

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Introducing the Bubble Hotties: Boys & Girls Hot Beyond Their Means

The bubble — (blogging about) it’s so hot right now.
We don’t judge if you haven’t been paying attention to the bubble, but you’ve been reaping its benefits. It’s okay, users. No, I’m sorry, content makers. We’ll still respect you even if the thing ends up bursting its unseemly tech juices in the [...]

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San Francisco’s Sex Geeks Welcome Darling Nicky

Meanwhile, at Valleywag’s launch party… you know us San Francisco sex nerds: just get us South of Market, put a complimentary pink Sojutini in our little fingers, and our valley tongues will start a-wagging.
Violet Blue beat me to the story, but good thing she did, as now the scandalizing can be a co-operative effort:
Annalee Newitz: [...]

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