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  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Zynga Offers Customers Who Waste Their Lives Playing Its Games Up to $24,000 Today

    Today, FarmVille crops yield real cash​It ain't been a great week in the press for Zynga, the San Francisco-based creator of popular online games such as FarmVille. Last Wednesday we published a cover story in which ex-employees dished on Zynga's allegedly "evil" practice of copying competitors' g ... More >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    FarmVillains

    Steal someone else's game. Change its name. Make millions. Repeat.

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    NPR Takes 'Web-First' Approach to Blogging. What Does That Mean?

    Hello, Blogger...​Tomorrow, National Public Radio will formally launch the Argo Project, a group of 12 topic-based news blogs hosted by different NPR affiliates across the country. Two of the blogs are Bay Area-based: KALW's The Informant, which focuses on criminal justice issues, and KQED's MindS ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Five Features That Would Make iPod iTunes Better For Music Fans

    ​Even if we don't know what will actually happen at Apple's big music announcement next week, we know what we want to happen. The iTunes/iPod combination has long been the standard apparatus for music fans, but as much as we love it, there are things we hate about it, too -- and things we wish it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Zynga Sued over 'Mafia Wars' Trademark by Digital Chocolate: Read the Lawsuit Here

    Who says a war is bad for business?​San Francisco-based social-gaming company Zynga is being sued for alleged trademark infringement over its popular Facebook game, Mafia Wars.Digital Chocolate, another online gaming company, claims in a lawsuit filed in federal court that it owns rights to the na ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Zynga in Hot Water with San Francisco City Attorney Over 'Mafia Wars' Marketing

    Dennis Herrera is taking off the gloves over Zynga's 'Mafia Wars'​The San Francisco City Attorney's office is going after social-gaming company Zynga -- maker of such popular Facebook applications as FarmVille and Mafia Wars -- for what it calls an "illegal and actionable" marketing campaign to pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Green Energy Fetches a High Price -- and Many Customers -- in Marin County

    The future of Bay Area energy?​As both San Francisco and Marin County struggle to get "community choice aggregation" green-energy plans up and running, one of the big questions on observers' minds is whether electricity consumers will pay more for power from renewable sources such as wind and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Boycott of Alberta Urged By San Francisco's 'Corporate Ethics.' Canadians Pissed, Eh?

    That's not maple syrup​Corporate Ethics International, a rabble-rousing San Francisco environmental nonprofit, on Thursday launched a campaign urging a boycott of Alberta in protest of the Canadian province's oil sands petroleum extraction project. The group has erected a billboard in Seattle comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 9, 2010

    Judge (Sort of) Realizes Absurdity in Slapping Music-Sharing Students with Huge Fines

    Francesco Marino / FreeDigitalPhotos.net​Strike one up for common sense -- and another one down for the Recording Industry Association of America.Earlier today, a federal judge cut the penalty against convicted music file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum by a factor of 10 -- from $675,000 to $67,500 -- after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2010

    Geeks Take a Break From Social Media to Celebrate Social Media

    via Twitter​"Today is Social Media Day! How are you celebrating?" a Twitter user tweeted."Refreshing Twitter to see how everyone else is staying at home on Twitter" would have been the predictable answer. Instead, users responded: "Getting a cake." "Heading to Boston tonight." "Watching fireworks. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2010

    Labor Dispute Over Solar Panels Heats Up

    Members of Aboriginal Blackmen United wait for a meeting with City Administrator Ed Lee​A labor dispute over solar technology is heating up, with one union now considering legal action against the city, and a Bayview worker's group visiting City Hall to demand meetings with top officials.At issue ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    New Pot Club Would Be Downtown's First

    ​Earlier in the week, Socketsite pointed attention to 527 Howard Street -- just beneath the Bay Bridge -- where a new medical cannabis dispensary wishes to open up shop.SF Weekly visited with applicant Igor Khavin and toured the nascent Igzactly Health Solutions. Khavin will have his permit hearin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Record Labels Suing Everything Good Into Oblivion

    MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2010

    Getting Carded

    MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Is Google Squared a Content-Snatching Death Star?

    This search engine is fully operational...​Google is a "digital vampire" in the words of Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton. Furthering the vampiric metaphor, the search engine exists to "just suck on your blood," in the words of HDNet owner Mark Cuban. Taking things to the next step, the Mountain View comp ... More >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2010

    iPhones and iPads revolutionize beatmaking, piano playing, and symphony conducting

    This search engine is fully operational...​Google is a "digital vampire" in the words of Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton. Furthering the vampiric metaphor, the search engine exists to "just suck on your blood," in the words of HDNet owner Mark Cuban. Taking things to the next step, the Mountain View comp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    Anti-Spam Crusader Dan Balsam Takes Spammers To Court -- And Wins

    Dan Balsam' s favorite Monty Python sketch, bar none...​Note to the world: Dan Balsam is tired of his wife receiving e-mail messages promising her a bigger penis. And he has no interest in getting larger breasts. How much does the San Francisco lawyer hate spam? Enough to initiate the DanHatesSpam ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Ubuntu Calls Split with Jeremy Fox 'Amicable'

    ​Calling the split "amicable," a hot-off-the PR machine statement says the departure of Ubuntu chef Jeremy Fox was a "resignation" that'll allow the chef to "pursue other interests," the departed chef equivalent of a resigned politician explaining that he wants to spend more time with his fami ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2010

    Smoked Out: City Announces Plans to Close Mirant Power Plant -- This Time, Definitely!

    Going, going, gone​The final word is in: after more than a decade of activism and negotiations, the Mirant Power Plant will be closing for good by the end of 2010. "There was really no need to have these dirty power plants continue to exist in San Francisco," City Attorney Dennis Herrera tol ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

    Ten years of music videos: A treadmill, a stanky romance, and a YouTube dream

    Going, going, gone​The final word is in: after more than a decade of activism and negotiations, the Mirant Power Plant will be closing for good by the end of 2010. "There was really no need to have these dirty power plants continue to exist in San Francisco," City Attorney Dennis Herrera tol ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Career optimization: Being a journalist in the Internet age

    Going, going, gone​The final word is in: after more than a decade of activism and negotiations, the Mirant Power Plant will be closing for good by the end of 2010. "There was really no need to have these dirty power plants continue to exist in San Francisco," City Attorney Dennis Herrera tol ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    Going, going, gone​The final word is in: after more than a decade of activism and negotiations, the Mirant Power Plant will be closing for good by the end of 2010. "There was really no need to have these dirty power plants continue to exist in San Francisco," City Attorney Dennis Herrera tol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    State Agency Grants Signal Shift Away from Embryonic Stem Cells

    In an April cover story, we looked at the dilemma facing the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state agency created through Proposition 71 to fund stem-cell research: Should the landmark agency direct the remainder of its $3 billion in research funds towards "adult" stem cel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Napa Vegetarian Restaurant Ubuntu Likely to Serve Meat at Special Tuesday Night Dinners

    Food Snob/FlickrUbuntu: Will the temple of pristine vegeterianism be serving up pork belly?​Ubuntu owner Sandy Lawrence told SFoodie that, as early as next month, the Napa vegetarian restaurant is launching a series of Tuesday night dinners that'll feature appearances by what she called some o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    S.F. State Prof: Comparision of Republicans to Neanderthals Is Insulting -- To Neanderthals

    His knuckles do not drag...​Angry words continue to be exchanged about fiery Florida freshman Congressman Alan Grayson referring to Republicans as "knuckle-dragging Neanderthals" and Rep. Nancy Pelosi's refusal to compel him to apologize. But a San Francisco State University professor has a probl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Local Eco-Conference Swaps Press Passes for Ad Placement

    Being forced to trade adspace for media coverage of an event is not the current journalistic norm. Sadly, it may become commonplace in the future.​ In the impending newspaperless world dreaded by journalists, and glowingly touted by futurists, we'll all be glorified ad-salespeople, burnishing our ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    No Smoking: City Attorney Announces Settlement to Shut Mirant Potrero Power Plant 'Irrevocably' By 2010

    Joe EskenaziCity Attorney Dennis Herrera delivers the big news, backed by (from left) PUC head Ed Harrington, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and former Board of Supes President Aaron Peskin​The answer has been revealed to the "mystery settlement" announced yesterday by City Attorney Dennis Herrera ... More >>

  • Music

    July 29, 2009

    Microcaster DJs get screwed under new licensing fees

    Joe EskenaziCity Attorney Dennis Herrera delivers the big news, backed by (from left) PUC head Ed Harrington, Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, and former Board of Supes President Aaron Peskin​The answer has been revealed to the "mystery settlement" announced yesterday by City Attorney Dennis Herrera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    SF Gov InAction: Peace Between Bloggers and Journalists for Our Time!

    Print journalists and bloggers are feuding again. It's a quiet feud so far -- an incendiary article here, a subtle dig in a blog post there -- but it's real, it's between people I know and respect, and it makes me want to hide under the bed the way I did when the monsters attacked mommy and dad ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2009

    Will the Real iPhone Apps Please Stand Up?

    Print journalists and bloggers are feuding again. It's a quiet feud so far -- an incendiary article here, a subtle dig in a blog post there -- but it's real, it's between people I know and respect, and it makes me want to hide under the bed the way I did when the monsters attacked mommy and dad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    eMusic Raises Rates

    As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Everybody Gets a Sign!

    As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 24, 2009

    Cave Man

    As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2009

    SF Weekly Letters

    As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2009

    Stem-cell stalemate: The push for cures may produce only disappointment - or worse

    As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

  • Music

    March 25, 2009

    An open letter to would-be Twitticians

    As of yesterday, eMusic rates went up (the basic package is now $11.99, while the Premium package is now $20.75 monthly), while the number of songs subscribers can download has decreased (from 40 to 30 for Basic; from 75 to 50 for Premium). that basically amounts to less music for more money. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Applicance Sales and Service Does It All

    Parts, repair, and the biggest selection of new appliances around.

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    PG&E Steals SF Activists' Thunder -- Make That Sunlight -- With New Solar Power Plan

    David BlaikieMore attractive than ever.San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co. announced yesterday that it will be undertaking a $1.5 billion project to produce more solar energy for its customers throughout the state. The initiative, which includes plans to build new solar-power ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Ernest Gallo Research Center Discovers Human Jug-Wine Gene

    "Back off, I'm a scientist." Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center have discovered a region of the human genome that determines how the body reacts to jug wine, according to findings announced in the Dec. 8 online edition of the Proceedin ... More >>

  • News

    January 14, 2009

    Green Scheme

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • Music

    December 31, 2008

    Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • Calendar

    December 24, 2008

    Killing My Neighbor

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • Music

    December 10, 2008

    Yielding to Facebook reunions at Yield

    The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    "You Go Down to Moscone Convention Facilities. It's Compostable." And Other Gavin Newsom Environmental Insights from the State of the City Address

    Does Gavin Newsom turn into Stalin when the moon is full? By Benjamin Wachs (This is State of the Citysode III: The Environment. Click here for Part II: Education, and Part 1: Health Care) 00:00 - Gavin begins philosophically. "I like to say that the world's consumption is the sum of all loc ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 12, 2008

    The Eyes Have It

    Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2008

    Synthetic Biology Debate

    Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.

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