This is either the greatest act of symbolism in Silicon Valley, or a quiet admission by GitHub that its ostentatious display of faux-democracy was misguided. Either way, a smart move, too late.

This is why we can't innovate nice things. Image via the Facebook profile of Sam Lessin, the social network's director of product management.

When Jessica Wigsmoen first met Napster cofounder Shawn Fanning at a party at Sean Parker's West Village party house, she didn't think it would end like this. "I lived in New York, I had a really good life," Wigsmoen told me by phone last week. "I met this guy who acted like prince charming." Now, she claims Fanning is denying child support for their 2-year-old daughter, Scarlett. [Update: Valleywag received new information that Fanning has been sending significant, regular payments for Scarlett's care for two years. Full details at the bottom of the post.]

Thanks to Facebook stock closing higher than ever, Bloomberg reports the company's COO is now one of the youngest female billionaires on the planet.

If Betas, Amazon's newest web series about startup life, were a startup itself, it'd be time for a pivot. It just hasn't caught on. But even if it's not always good, it's important show—and, since it's streaming on-demand on Amazon, you ought to give it a try.

The name Ben Grossman might sound familiar if you read it here, this October, after the Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media sent an infamously gross "joke" about loosing dogs on striking transit workers. Make that former Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media.

Have you ever yearned: I love the physical junk mail I get, but is there any way I could have it intercepted, opened by strangers, scanned, and routed directly to my email inbox, so I don't have to touch paper? San Francisco startup Outbox thought it had the solution. Maybe it did. Now it is gone. Good.

The Cult of Silicon Valley worships failure—fail fast!—but only after it's been reversed and perverted. Actually calling it quits, admitting that you didn't succeed, and declaring your project dead, is rare. But 4chan founder Christopher Poole just conceded with perfect dignity and intelligence.

The day after an uncomfortable internal leak out of Google, anti-gentrification activists in San Francisco are attempting to shut down private shuttles from Facebook and Google, the old fashioned way.

Last July describing the cultural impact of Black Twitter, Buzzfeed's Shani O. Hilton wrote, "It's diffuse, powerful, and all around you." That's the kind of active, influential user base that startups dream of. But we've barely heard a peep about it from Twitter. Now that it needs ad revenue, that's changing.

Google's private shuttle system, which whisks staffers away from the cruel streets of San Francisco to the sterile safety of Mountain View, already has a big image problem. What could make it even more dystopian? How about a memo from the overlords with eerie talking points?

Right now, many of the worst people alive are flocking to a tiny, silly Swiss town for a week of swapping platitudes and talking about money. But why would our planet's ultrarich dickheads want to attend Davos, where Mark Zuckerberg's useless sister is considered a "Young Global Leader"?

In the warm afterglow of a $3.2 billion acquisition, a sated executive can find himself muttering the professional version of pillow talk. That's what Nest CEO Tony Fadell sounded like on stage this morning at the DLD conference in Munich.

If you rent a room on Airbnb, odds are you know what your host looks like—their picture is featured front and center. A new report out of Harvard Business School crunched the data, and says this is totally fine, as long as you're not black.

Unless you have a lot of money, it's often impossible to find a suitable spot for your business in New York, with office lease prices through the roof—and if you're a cash-strapped startup, well, don't bother getting out of bed. Shared offices are increasingly the norm, and it's a good business to be in.

Artists, Bay Area residents, and Valleywag readers Colleen Flaherty and Matteo Bittanti shared their latest joint work with us—a series titled "The Streetviews of San Francisco." Or, more plainly, The Bus Wars. It's urban resentment you can fit on a shelf.

Investors who aren't announcing another $1.5 billion fund still have to get attention somehow, or they'll lose deal flow to the latest venture celebrity. Gil Dibner, a VC at DFJ Espirit, thought maybe a "VC Code of Conduct" might do the trick. But the 17 point promise inadvertently outlines all the ways investors will give founders a raw deal.

Why are the vaguely-techie stories that show up on TMZ never as juicy as you hoped? The Hollywood blog reports that Joe Jonas—you know, the one with the good hair, who got corrupted by Miley Cyrus—took "random passengers" to Pinkberry this week in his new role as an UberX driver.

As the saying goes, If you're not paying for the product, you are the product. For social networks and their data brokers, that product is personal data about what you like and what you buy, even the President knows how that works. Self-quantification startups, on the other hand, look at the product within you. It's a very literal take on behavioral tracking.

The company has no clear direction, it employs Dave Pogue, a marketing exec is in charge of the media division, Yahoo! Mail is a wreck, and morale is low—but at least the urinal cakes show team spirit.