New site “Dig a Silicon Valley Girl” takes Digg cloning into the realm of hot or not with a geeky premise: it only covers Silicon Valley girls.
User can submit “Valley Girls” for public scrutiny, although the definition of Valley girl is fairly broad; Desperate Housewives Star Terri Hatcher made the cut based on her being born in the Valley.
Valley Girls currently on the front page include Google’s Marissa Meyer, Pownce Co-founder Leah Culver and former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte.
I suppose the notion of rating Valley girls in a Digg-style beauty contest could be deemed as being sexist, but I’m not going there: if the five women who read TechCrunch find this offensive their contact page is here 
Dumb and useless idea!
Is this idea going to lead to ad dollars for the site’s owners? Erm, it is hard to tell. It is only a matter of time the definition of “Valley Girls” gets broadened to include ladies from every other valley.
Absolutely horrible.
Bastards stole the site I work for’s logo: http://www.wedigtv.com
This is kind’a cool. It’s all in light hearted fun since they will probably only be featuring attractive women. Deep down inside – no matter how accomplished you are – every woman wants to be a Miss Universe
Hehehe… Don’t worry mate, the five women who read TechCrunch are unlikely to be feminists.
Miss Universe
true…I was also joking about there being 5 female readers as well…just in case anyone starts flaming this thread.
To Founder:
Are you sure you guys doing right thing?
I’m talking about right-right choice. When these women get married… I don’t know man… Just be careful with this shit. Sometimes mothers do complaint.
You are grown up. You are not horny kid anymore.
There is no American dream marrying these women.
Women can turn into prune juice.
Taking care kids is extreme hard and pain in ass.
They yell…
They cry…
They fuck your brains up….
Jeez some people can be so (un)creative…
Sometimes you have to have fun. Everyone is being too damn serious these days. It’s not earth shattering, it’s not very productive, but hey – it’s a fun site. Lighten up – no one said this site cured cancer or helped you perform in home brain surgery!
Rex
They might have taken too small of a niche with this one.
There are no starving start-ups out there, with brilliant ideas that could use some publicity? Instead you write about these things? I don’t understand the purpose of TechCrunch anymore.
As one of the five women who read Tech Crunch (and also a feminist by the way), I would like to state my response for the record. Here it is:
Meh…
You’re all right, people need a little fun! I think I’ll follow up with a site that lets Silicon Valley Indians leave their favorite curry recipe, and then everyone can judge which is the tastiest. Oh, and maybe a site that lets people vote on which Silicon Valley Negro dances the best. Hm, there are a lot of Russians around here, too– maybe a site that lets them share their drinking games and tips about how to deal with hangovers? These ideas are all great fun and not at all demeaning, marginalizing, or offensive… whee!
and like a prom date….the site is down
Natali Del Conte is hot!
LOL this is fun and stupid… but mostly stupid.
I was going to comment on how this will go to the dead pool pretty fast, but I take that back. Geeks need something to look at during the work day.
Also a female TechCrunch reader.
Whether this site will be harmless and amusing or sexist and insulting remains to be seen. The site owners will have to keep close tabs on the community to keep it from becoming the latter.
this site won’t last long….the talent pool of attractive girls out here is pretty thin
Where do you find time for covering crap like this? Yes, there are sites that need some publicity maybe you can try covering them.
And yes being one of the 5 women who read this post, I will be dismayed if this idiot site succeeds.
Duncan – has TechCrunch ever done research into the male/female ratio of its readership?
— another female reader
Let the nineties go… Move towards usefulness.
nitsuj, i’d have to say that goes both ways.. sorry kiddo.
digasvgirl: putting the Buh? into the bubble.
I too am a female reader and would love to know the male/female skew of Techcrunch. Hell, I work in market research, I volunteer to take a stab at some of your internal numbers.
The website idea mentioned in the post is just okay; it isn’t going to make anyone much money. Unfortunately, it paints the men of SV in a poor light (assuming men built the website). It potentially creates an environment where women who are interested in science, technology, and the interweb feel even more out of place than usual. Being in the minority in such fields is not always terrible, but being singled out as a result is.
hawt!
I think we ladies need a site that rates the size and quality of the valley boys. Important details if you know what I mean. I was at the infamous ‘grotto’ party this weekend and could provide some pretty juicy details.
Or would that be considered offensive?
I figure there has to be at least 6 of us female readers
The 5 girls joke feels pretty old to me. You boys need to think up some newer/better material, please
Along the same vein, perhaps this site won’t run out of content so fast. Perhaps there are more valley girls out there than the stereotype would suggest. Yah I know, I’m an optimist.
P
this thing is really dumb
So who are the founders of “digasvgirl.com” friends with at TC? I mean, an out of the box pligg site with only 2 pages of content? Come on! There are far better pligg sites out there that deserve some PR!
Now it will be four women reading TechCrunch.
Michael ,
how could you let this get posted on TechCrunch. Its an out of the box Pligg site with absolutely no changes to it except the logo. and worst of all it only has 2 pages of content. Come on this has got to be a joke. There are lots of websites out there that actually spend there personal money to just get off the ground and this person who obviously must know duncan because there is no way that a starving startup would get passed up for this crap. Seriously WTF
Waste of time.
Two days later, no more front page material
BURIED!
wow, there’s only four other girls? cool.
HI, LADIES!
sites and posts like this are exactly the reason I am a feminist.
One more gal here.
@#8.
WTF?
Take a look at their about us page – its meant to be fun.
http://www.diga...rl.com/about/en
Life is already too serious – take it as it is. A ‘tongue in cheek’ site.
It’s like gotcast.com but without the hot chicks.
The dig site is just stupid and not worth my energy to comment on. However, I’m disappointed that Tech Crunch is so clued out about their own audience that they think that only a small % of their audience is women. I bet it is much higher than you think.
Re: John
To me it is not about the site being fun and TC covering it. It’s about the thousands of other starving start-ups that are actually good and could use coverage. All you read about around here anymore is Facebook, how many more millions company XYZ got, Conde Naste brochure (???) and crap like this.. I liked it better when Arrington ran the show alone.
John, if demeaning women is how you get your kicks then hopefully looking at these pictures is the closest you ever come to actual interaction with a female.
Another girl here.
Nice Girls! Terry Hatcher is a EX-Valley Girl? Wowww
And people wonder why there’s so few women in geek circles. GG fellows.
http://xkcd.com/322/
Pretty cool! Through this one post, I was able to collect the numbers of about a dozen and a half of girls!
Their numbers are: 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 36, 37, 38, 42, 44, 45
Seriously, the sole reason I refused to move to Silicon Valley was the poor male to female ratio out there. How was I supposed to know that the love of my life moved there?!??!
I mean, this is great, I can go to 4chan and see people yell ‘TITS OR GTFO’ or I can come here and see the exact same attitude but expressed in coherent sentences. I don’t know which one is more depressing. At least on 4chan there’s a thought that the 17 year olds will grow out of it. But you guys are like, prolly in your forties.
This is great because we ladies DEFINITELY need more reminders that being smart and successful is not enough. So happy to be a woman in tech and the mom to a daughter who will have to deal with this crap as she grows up. Ugh.