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Toys For The Rich To Cultivate Product Popularity

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the what's-the-problem-here-exactly? dept.

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. 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.

  3. 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.