Over the weekend, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo was pummeled after his company's public filing exposed the makeup of the board of directors seated atop his $20 billion real-time empire: All white and all male.

Silicon Valley's new money imitates its urban center: awkward, underdeveloped, and hoping so very badly to be noticed. So it's no mistake that the buzziest addition to the San Francisco social scene is The Battery, a private clubhouse that apes so much that's lame and gauche about Manhattan.

Silicon Valley alchemy doesn't just create dazzling new things—it dazzles us into thinking mundane old ideas are new again. Take the idea of hauling away someone's dirty clothes: at LA startup Washio, you're actually a "kickass laundry ninja." What a difference a smartphone makes.

Full disclosure: Spiegel agreed to be the interviewed by the Palisadian-Post under the guideline that no controversial questions would be asked. He also would not let this reporter audiotape the interview.

If Facebook staffers opt to move in to work, they'll be getting a very sweet deal out of it: the Anton Menlo project includes all the comforts of suburbia and college combined. What 20-something engineer wouldn't want to live in a walled compound?

Editorial Director Christopher Price, who joined Tumblr a week after it launched and has been part of its inner circle ever since, is jumping ship.

Twitter, a company of around 2,000 employees, doesn't have a single woman on its board, and very, very few female executives of any kind. After the New York Times ran a pointed article to this effect, the company's CEO Dick Costolo went on the (Twitter) defensive.

New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has issued a subpoena "demanding user data" about Airbnb hosts in New York, reports the New York Daily News. An Airbnb representative told Valleywag that the subpoena covers only the 15,000 hosts, and not all 225,000 users in New York. Airbnb has until today to turn over the data.

How does a technologically savvy city respond to rising crime rates? By crowd-funding itself a private security detail.

Anthony Noto just came out of Wall Street retirement for one big score: he's going to lead the Goldman Sachs blitz behind Twitter's IPO, hoping to make it the biggest tech stock craze of our time. And Noto knows something about crazes: he helped hype some of the worst tech stocks from the last bubble.

Yesterday, trendy online furniture and bow tie warehouse Fab canned a full fifth of its company. Here's the (leaked) email sent to everyone who wasn't fired, detailing what the company will do the day after a bloodletting:

The next stock market hysteria is here: Twitter's S-1 filing with the SEC, detailing brand new information about the hot ticket company, is now public. It's a money-loser, but will be the biggest financial craze since Facebook—let's dig in.

Sure, Lululemon has been making video ads on Instagram since day one, but you'll only see those if you choose to follow Lululemon—and why would you do that? Now the choice is going away: Instagram is officially putting ads in your face whether you like it or not:

Since Airbnb is technically illegal in New York City, the startup is willing to make some big concessions. Today, the shining star of the sharing economy said it will launch a 24/7 hotline for New Yorker in order to "remove bad actors in our community that are causing a disturbance to their neighbors." Oh, and it thinks Airbnb hosts should pay an "occupancy tax.

Reuters reports that Fab.com will lay off "nearly a fifth of its workforce" starting today. The e-commerce company is cutting 101 jobs in total, including 84 people from its New York City headquarters. This is in addition to the 100 employees in Berlin that CEO Jason Goldberg laid off in July.

If you work at Facebook, your employer will already wash your underwear, cut your hair, and feed you—now it's getting into the landlord game. The Wall Street Journal says Zuckerberg will usher in the 21st century version of company towns, a place where you can never truly leave the social network.

Brittany Darwell has covered, almost encyclopedically, Facebook.com. She knows every detail, every line, every pixel, every small version change. She knows how the ads work, she knows how Likes work, and she wants only to list it for us on her website, Inside Facebook. But now she's joining the mothership.

It's a given that most startups will fail, and that all it takes is a few smart (lucky?) investments for a VC to make it all worthwhile. Dave McClure's 500 Startups, as the name makes obvious, takes this to the logical extreme, with a throw moneyshit against the wall and see what sticks approach. Now they've got millions more to throw.