Apple shopper, ever-conflicted TechCrunch blogger and venture capitalist MG Siegler just took on a third job: partner at Google Ventures. But don't worry, he says, everything is going to stay just the way it was: blogging about the industry he bankrolls, not a scruple in sight.

As part of Zynga's new "austerity," the company is fixating on its Farmville franchise. "It could be the Seinfeld of our era in gaming, a multi-season show that has a quality and a consistency that you can rely on," said Mark Pincus. That, or show about nothing that ended horribly.

Jack Dorsey, condemned to a perpetual state of selfie for crimes in a past life, is starting to straight up frighten us. Is staring blankly into a camera every day the best way to get people to use your app?

How detached from reality is PandoDaily? When a middling company that makes no money is purchased by another company for $60 million, that deal is "underwhelming."

If you read Nathaniel Rich's half-skeptical orbit around Y Combinator—one of tech's trendier cash camps—there's one important takeaway: the guy in charge really doesn't like foreign accents.

From Kara Swisher's latest tech profile in Vanity Fair, one of those "this is indicative of something profound and strange, but I'm not exactly sure what" moments:

Everyone looks so thrilled to be working at Zynga, don't they? DON'T THEY? Careful, the dog is watching.

This ended well surprisingly fast! Jessica Bennett, formerly of Tumblr's eliminated editorial department, will be helping Sandberg spread the Lean In mantra with original "editorial and social content."

Of all the reasons to flee a startup, death rarely ranks—but photo editor Corey Pein ditched Demotix after its acquisition by Corbis. "I thought their plans were dangerous," he explains. The Gates-owned copyright vault is under the gun again.

Last time we checked in with Jesse Thomas, founder of the interactive agency JESS3, he was posting drunken dick pics of his friend Matt Monahan taken during a "Geeks on a Plane" jaunt to India, organized by Dave McClure's 500Startups and sponsored by the likes of Google, PayPal, QualComm and more.

Google Glass will blow you away, nobody is going to buy it, it will change the world forever, it's flawed, it's perfect, you'll never wear it, and you'll never be able to live without it. At least that's the takeaway if you've been reading BI's breathless, schizoid coverage of the trendy face computer.

Software billionaire Larry Ellison is rich. Jet-owning, fleet-cruising, bought an entire Hawaiian island rich. But there's been something missing in his aggrandizing oeuvre. Maybe an invite from Larry Ellison to the premiere of a movie about Larry Ellison called The Wind Gods will do the trick.

Twitter is looking for someone with a minimum of 15 years in journalism who's also tech-savvy enough to "shape and drive the next growth phase of Twitter’s partnership with the news industry." I'd love to see that venn diagram.

When last we met PandoDaily, the ever-conflicted crew was gushing about how great their benefactor's shoe company is. Today, Pando's Shill-in-chief Sarah Lacy thinks questionable, for-profit online courses are worth a shot. Can you guess what comes next?

Google's plan to get consumers to fork over $1,500 for the future a face computer has been orchestrated less like a Pavlovian product launch (designed to make tech bloggers salivate) and more like a PSYOP campaign for luxury goods.

The backlash against Silicon Valley's covert right wing boosterism just picked up a little more speed: Josh Miller, the young chief of Twitter chat system Branch, is calling Zuck out.

There will never be a good time to be poor, or a bad time to be rich: the NYT has a sad report from Palo Alto, where soaring real estate prices are starting to squeeze out ordinary humans.

Brandon Stanton, the photog behind mega-popular portrait site Humans of New York, is posting specimens from his trip to Zuckerberg's Money Den. The results? Portlandia meets Palo Alto.

For an example of how privacy in the digital age can get dot complicated, check out the public listing for Mark Zuckerberg's $7 million Palo Alto mansion on Foursquare. Judging by the name of the location, "Mark Zuckerberg's House," he didn't create the venue himself and it's probably not the kind of attention a billionaire who wears a shirt in the ocean is looking for.

With fears of a tech bubble looming, what better tie-in for your company fête than... the period right before America's greatest financial disaster? Someone at AirBnb sure thinks so: mark your calendars for a boozy night on West Egg. This might be the most oblivious party in startup history.