Gore’s Rig

Here we see former Vice President (and Apple Board member) Al Gore flanked by three huge Apple displays. We can only imagine where the computer powering those things is located in that cluttered office.

“Al Gore’s American Life” photographed for Time Magazine by Steve Pyke.

Bebo: MySpace meets Facebook

Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006, then the Financial Times reported they were in talks with Viacom a month later.

Now, The UK’s Telegraph is reporting that Yahoo is looking, and may pay as much as $1 billion. Just one problem, though. The Telegraph isn’t exactly known for breaking tech M&A stories, and the rumor has an exceptionally weak source - “according to silicon valley gossip” the article says. That sounds like something the Telegraph’s correspondent overheard after ten or twelve cocktails last night at a party. And while I don’t doubt that Yahoo is sniffing around Bebo, $1 billion seems a tad high for the service.

radar shoots doc trailer

Drew and I will be shooting in New York next week for Steve Hand’s documentary on Luigi, a famous choreographer who’s taught everyone from Liza Minelli to John Travolta. Once we get back to LA, Drew will cut together a 10 minute trailer in order to raise the necessary funds to shoot the entire doc. More on that later.

dear barack

Why would you go and do such a stupid thing like this?

“The Sen. Barack Obama campaign got into flap with a LA-based paralegal who had been using his MySpace page to convince his “friends” to vote for the presidential candidate. Joe Anthony started the profile page three years ago, attracting more than 30,000 friends before Obama even announced his candidacy this January. The head start gave the Senator cache in the press, as reports circulated of Obama winning the “MySpace primary.” As traffic to the site increased, Anthony’s workload spiked, prompting him to ask for compensation from the campaign. The Obama internet team refused and complained to MySpace. The social networking site froze Anthony out of the account and ceded control of the page to campaign staffers. The end result so far is a massive loss of friends; the Obama profile currently has just over 22,000 friends down from 160,000 at the beginning of this week.”

Cynopsis Digital