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• 10 questions to ask after getting a startup job offer [Silicon Valley Users Guide]

  Twitter needs help staying up. Maybe that help is you! But before taking that job offer — or an offer from any startup — Venture Hacks has 10 questions you should ask. We've condensed their list down from 1,250 words to a version you can read comfortably on your iPhone 3G before your next interview, below. 

• Six Apart executive fails to job-hop, follow other Silicon Valley rules [Anil Dash]

  What's wrong with Anil Dash? As of today, the New York blogger, Six Apart's vice president of evangelism, has been at the San Francisco-based blog-software company for five years. Dash, the company's first employee, is one of its largest individual shareholders, but he's mostly vested by now. 

• Silicon Valley afraid to ask "Where's my bailout?" [Meltdowns]

  The Wall Street bailout act failed to pass. One imagines the well-padded VCs of Sand Hill Road smirking: How sad! Congress will surely have another go, with more lobbyist-written provisions and earmarks to grease the wheels. It all seems so far away from Silicon Valley, the mostly debt-free innovation machine. 

• Frontline, Silicon Valley’s Wireless Startup, Folds

  Frontline Wireless, the startup backed by an elite group of Silicon Valley investors, has closed for business, according to a statement from Mary Greczyn, a spokesman. Last month, the company had an initial application with the Federal Communications Commission to bid on a nationwide block of spectrum in the upcoming auctions. 

• Why Silicon Valley just won't shut up about FriendFeed [FriendFeed]

  Cathy Brooks is a typically unapologetic Silicon Valley Web addict," writes Brad Stone in the New York Times. Last week alone, she produced more than 40 pithy updates on the text messaging service Twitter, uploaded two dozen videos to various video sharing sites, posted seven photographs on the Yahoo image service Flickr and one item to the online community calendar Upcoming. 

• How not to flunk Silicon Valley's bondage academy [Sex Trade]

  The first dominatrix to take me under her wing kept her dungeon close enough to the Moscone Center, but the only domina to give me a formal diploma on graduation was Cleo Dubois, founder of the Silicon Valley based Academy of SM Arts. Having a discreet, private place to indulge in SM has drawn out a decent number of Valley guys over the years, says Cleo — men who want to play, but need to keep a low profile about it. 

• Silicon Valley gets richer, more expensive [Economy]

  Silicon Valley added 28,000 jobs in the last 12 months, up 2. percent. We outpaced the rest of California at 0. percent and the nation at 1. percent. But still, that's fewer new jobs than were. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! 

• A brief history of high-dollar prostitution, Silicon Valley style [Sex Trade]

  The age of the High-Class Internet Whore began in 2000, with a lady who popularized the notion of two-day, $12K minimums and favored Slashdot to the back of the free local paper for advertising. I've pulled together a timeline of the High-Dollar Hottie, the Valley-based escorts who followed her, and the new one who may be their legacy. 

• Oprah wept on Silicon Valley investor Sam Perry [Celebritards]

  The world watched Oprah Winfrey cry as our new Internet President delivered his victory speech. But whose shoulder did she dump mascara on? Sam Perry, a Reuters reporter turned venture capitalist based in Silicon Valley, who had volunteered as a communications director for the Obama campaign. 

• Meet Silicon Valley's very own fight club (NSFW) [Clips]

  newVideoPlayer("Silicon_Valley_fight_club. flv", 463, 387,""); Why do men in Silicon Valley join software engineer Gints Klimanis's fight club? In this clip, Limanis tells ESPN: Silicon Valley is just a facade, constructed to just allow us to work together. But underneath, as an individual you have the caveman nature. 

• Obama Green Talk Is Gold to Silicon Valley

  UPDATE: Adding that Daniel Kammen is an adviser to the Obama campaign. Senator Barack Obama today proposed that the federal government spend $150 billion over 10 years to promote alternative energy and create several million jobs. The investment plan was mentioned in a speech delivered in Michigan aimed at voters frustrated by the region's disappearing manufacturing sector. 

• Cramer: "Cleveland Valley," not Silicon Valley, will save us [Internet Week]

  At a breakfast event to conclude New York's Internet Week this morning, TheStreet. com's Jim Cramer said Valley innovation is all about creating "fancy ways to deliver music and videogames. The obstreperrific stockpicker said videogame makers Take-Two and Activision are tech's two most successful companies, other than Apple and Google — and that's fine, but it's also a sign Silicon Valley won't save us from the economic woes the markets gave a hint of last week. 

• Tesla Motors' Second Electric Car Will Be Made in Silicon Valley

  Tesla Motors’ second all-electric car, the Model S, is one step closer to reality. On Wednesday morning, the company will announce a deal to lease 89 acres of land in San Jose, Calif. to build a company headquarters and a 600,000-square-foot plant to produce the battery-powered Model S sedan. 

• Silicon Valley prepares for financial storm of century

  I was walking around Palo Alto yesterday afternoon, visiting startups to see what the mood is. One scene stuck out for me. I was walking to my car with Tapulous CEO Bart Decrem and a friend of his ran into us in the street and said “nice job getting funding last month. �� They make apps for iPhone, including my favorite Twitter iPhone client, Twinkle. 

• Windows Azure at Silicon Valley CodeCamp on 11/8

  Windows Azure has been getting a lot of press since launch. A few weeks before launch, I tapped my friend Sriram Krishnan, Program Manager on the Windows Azure team and just overall great guy, to come down and participate at our annual Silicon Valley CodeCamp to do a talk on Windows Azure. 

• Coping With The Recession In Silicon Valley

  We’ve got the recession in full swing in Silicon Valley and our region, along with many others, is experiencing job losses left and right. So how are we coping with things right now? Over at the US News Alpha Consumer blog, Kim Palmer has begun a new series called “Recession 2. Do You Feel It? 

• New York 1 Silicon Valley 1 []

  Barry Diller fired the head of Ask. com. Conde Nast pimped flip. com out to Facebook and mySpace. But you know what Silicon Valley doesn't have? A shiny metallic pay toilet. And you know who does? New. 

• ESC Silicon Valley Announcements

  ESC Silicon Valley Announcements Yesterday, at ESC Silicon Valley in San Jose, Kevin Dallas, General Manager for the Windows Embedded Business, presented the Industry Keynote, with Mike Hall (Windows Embedded Architect), and Ilya Bukshteyn (Director of Windows Embedded Marketing at Microsoft). 

• Silicon Valley’s janitor problem

  The janitors for many of tech’s biggest companies decided to walk out on strike today. I’m not a big union supporter. I generally don’t like the things because, for the most part, I live in a meritocracy. If I don’t get interesting videos, no one will show up and eventually sponsors figure that out and decide to spend their money somewhere else. 

• The most underhyped Silicon Valley success: Meebo

  I read hundreds of blogs. Follow thousands of people on Twitter and FriendFeed. I’m seen as THE poster boy for the Silicon Valley echo chamber. But I don’t see much about Meebo, certainly not even close to the amount of talk that, say, Twitter gets (and Twitter has 1/10th the traffic that Meebo does).