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Toys For The Rich To Cultivate Product Popularity

ChipGuy writes "Newsweek is reporting on a new elitist club called the Silicon Valley 100, an exclusive group of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs like Marc Andressen, Esther Dyson, Chris Shipley, and Ross Mayfield. The Schwag Set will get a lot of free stuff which they will either recommend or not, to unsuspecting masses. Dan Gillmor thinks 'it is oddly creepy', and urges people on this list to 'bow out of this exercise entirely.' Om Malik says it ironic that 'the first product being offered is a shitter! What Crap!'"

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  1. Rich people recommending products by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why the Segway is so popular....

  2. Piracy? by jfonseca · · Score: 2, Funny
    Om Malik says it ironic that 'the first product being offered is a shitter! What Crap!'"


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  3. Re:I don't read blogs very often, by arturov · · Score: 5, Funny

    but do most of them contain grammer this horrific?

    Not as bad as the average slashdot post.

  4. Sex Toys by SunFan · · Score: 2, Funny


    That'd make for some great Schwag Set blogging!

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  5. Re:I don't read blogs very often, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yea, but that is a spelling error and not a grammar error and definitely not a grammer error ;)

    Grammatical error. Oh just go back to college, will you? :)

  6. Re:What's wrong with the crapper? by djplurvert · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ya know, I took one look at that petite little "wand", *sigh*. I was wondering, do they have an industrial version designed to handle a jalepeno anchovy pizza, chilli, hot-wings, and beer evening programming session?

    Cause, um, yeah, I'm sticking with the scott tissue for now, it may be a bit unrefined, but it, um, gets it all.

  7. Re:LoudClown by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: 2, Funny
    Marc Andreesen is a clown who is famous for being famous.

    So you're saying he's the tech community's version of Paris Hilton? Seems fitting, because although he might not have appeared in porn, he seems to be quite the connoisseur of porn.

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  8. Re:Payola is payola... by flyingsquid · · Score: 2, Funny
    ...Accepting free products is unethical, plain and simple.

    Yeah! For example, Linux.

    [ducks and runs for cover]