Google overload, or, if we never see Sergey Brin’s adorable face again, it’ll be too soon

There was a time when summer was slow. News would lull. Folks would go on vacation.

Not this year.

Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and now Google have conspired to work technology journalists to death over the past six weeks or so. …

This week was all like, Microsoft, Microsoft, Geordi LaForge, Microsoft…

This week was a barrage of Microsoft news. Oh look, a tablet! Hey, what’s that over there? A new Windows Phone operating system! Did you see that super secret document with the new Xbox and Kinect specs?

It’s like they 

Please, keep your teenagers off the Internet. They’re making a mess

Holy crap, what a week! Here’s what we’re covering in this week’s video briefing:

Teens being boneheaded is hardly news, but it doesn’t always lead to a robbery. You, young lady, just ruined Christmas and shamed your family. No more

Design for hackers guru Kadavy talks white space, typography, & more [video]

David Kadavy is the acknowledged guru of design for web and mobile hackers, and (lucky us) he took some time to chat with VentureBeat about those topics during South By Southwest Interactive.

In this clip, Kadavy talks about white space, …

Let’s get judgey: Here’s our lightning round on the week’s top stories

It’s time for a sudden-death-style lightning round on the week’s news.

Day in and day out, we write fairly neutral coverage of these hot-button topics, but we’re real people, man, with feelings. And sometimes, we just gotta let our freak …

Thanks for the get-out-of-jail-free card, Google (video)

And now, it’s time for a few tasteful jokes (and at least one tasteless one) about the week’s tech headlines.

Here are the stories we highlighted this week:

Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launched a startup focused on caregivers. Microsoft

Here’s what we REALLY thought about this week’s news (video)

Skyrim is awesome; Pinterest users need to calm the hell down; and Facebook users need to stay away from the gun cabinet.

In this week’s episode of VB Weekly, the VentureBeat writing staff takes a front seat, with a range …

VBWeekly: IPO, IP-Schmo.

This week we talk about the IPO heard ’round the world, that of Dutch antivirus outfit AVG.

Wait, that’s the IPO y’all were talking about, right?

Of course, we get into some of the nitty gritty gossip around the Facebook …

VBWeekly: Sh*t startup people say

Watch out! There’s some adults-only vocabulary in Startup Land.

For this week’s video show installment, we decided to deliver a very special VBWeekly addressing the dangers of myopia and jargon.

Also, we decided to slay what’s left of the “Sh*t …

VBWeekly: We call Congress about SOPA (video)

For our weekly video show, we decided that not only were we going to talk about SOPA; we were going to do something about SOPA.

Also, this was our CES wrap-up show, and Chris Peri, who was there to see …

Woz, Spock & the best party you ever missed (video)

Chances are, if reading tech blogs is what you do with your Saturday, you’re gonna love this video.

It features an all-star cast: VentureBeat CTO Chris Peri, “alien chic” bewigged Jolie O’Dell, and a server rack so fast you could …

Bump CEO on idea “borrowing,” popularity & the Chicago scene (video)

Bump CEO Dave Lieb took some time to chat with us in the VentureBeat studio recently, and we talked all kinds of trash.

Bump is the mobile app that lets you send data back and forth between two phones simply …

Node.js core contributor explains why it’s ready for the big time (video)

Hanging out with Paul Querna, a longtime Node.js core contributor and Rackspace’s systems architect, is more fun than a basket of kittens.

In this video interview, he and I chat about how far Node has come in a relatively short …

Our weekly show: Twitter, video games & hazing the new intern (video)

Once again, we join you to bid adieu to another news-filled work week.

This time around, we talk trash about the new-new Twitter, which may (or may not) upset the service’s core users with its top-to-bottom redesign.

Another note of …

When it comes to cell phones, this was the worst. Week. Ever. (video)

In this business, sometimes you get the news, and sometimes, the news gets you.

This week, VentureBeat staffers Jolie O’Dell and Chris Peri were saddened and disappointed by news of possible corporate wrongdoing and anti-human bias, all in the arena …

The week in review: Jobs’ last words, Siri’s rough week & Google+’s last stand

Welcome to the weekend, dear reader!

Lest you wander into your usual melange of fancy soirees and intellectual salons as uninformed as a wee little baby, we present this week’s VB Weekly video, full of interesting tidbits and talking points …

The female tech CEO: rising trend or exception to the rule? (video)

This week, IBM named its first-ever female CEO, Virginia Rometty.

In an industry that historically lacks gender balance, this move struck the VentureBeat staffers, including publisher Alicia Saribalis, as momentous.

But in reflecting on the events of the day, we …

This week at VentureBeat: Gossiping with former editor Owen Thomas

The most interesting stories we get to tell are stories about people. And this week, we had a glut of those kinds of stories.

Between Mike Arrington’s CrunchFund antics, Carol Bartz’s emotionally charged anti-Yahoo tirade and Nikki Sixx’s fit of …

Here’s what happened this week at VentureBeat (video)

It’s the weekly video show so new it doesn’t have a name!

Welcome to the first installment of… whatever we end up calling it, our new weekly video clip where two members of the editorial staff do a rapid-fire fight …