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TechCrunch is currently missing <%=Fucks%>, according to Forbes' Brian Caulfield. We expect to add more <%=Fucks%> into our posts in <%=deadline%>. Responds our more serious than me co-editor Eric Eldon, "Our disappointing F-Bomb second quarter 2012 financial results and outlook for the third quarter 2012 illustrates that our F-Bomb business continues to be in the midst of transition. Within our F-Bomb business unit, we have established early momentum with F-Bomb+, and we are increasing our investments in F-Bomb+ to achieve market success."

So Valley veteran Kevin Rose will be at Disrupt SF on September 8th - 12th! Rose will be joining our growing coterie of distinguished speakers, all of which now include: my former boss Michael Arrington, Marissa Mayer, Vinod Khosla, Marc Benioff, Ron Conway, Ben Horowitz, Joel Klein, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, Jessica Alba, Brian Lee, Path's Dave Morin and Benchmark Capital's Matt Cohler.

Asked today on Facebook's very first earnings call about the status of Facebook's acquisition of Instagram, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed that the photosharing startup had not been integrated AT ALL into Facebook, "The acquisition hasn't closed, so no integration at all yet," he said. Zuckerberg said that aside from the Instagram acquisition, Facebook will continue to move forward in its general strategy of talent acquisitions.

Instagram has just announced 80 million users and a new app update; Noticeably missing in the update? The "Find Your Friends" on Twitter feature, which allowed users to follow the same people they follow on Twitter on Instagram. The "Tweet Photo" feature is still available.

There is nothing more broken than the payments/banking system, which makes me and everybody else root for payments (and more!) startup Simple (formerly BankSimple). We all hate our banks and, especially if you are in SF, we constantly hope that the future will be better. And, again if you're like me, Simple is your great white hope: A Mint that won't sell out and actually is responsible for your money, a banking interface that actually makes interacting with the your lifetime quantitative value enjoyable and intelligible? Sure, count us in.

Well, the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt SF is shaping up nicely, really nicely. And today we've got another two Valley thought leaders we'd like to announce: Path's Dave Morin and Benchmark Capital's Matt Cohler will be taking the stage in September to impart their perspectives on the state of the tech now. Morin and Cohler will join our all-star speaker list which now includes: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Disrupt veteran Ron Conway, CEO of salesforce.com Marc Benioff, Ben Horowitz, founder of Khosla Ventures Vinod Khosla, Joel Klein, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, and The Honest Company's Jessica Alba and Brian Lee.

We are incredibly excited to announce two more amazing speakers who will be joining us onstage at this year's Disrupt SF -- The Honest Company co-founders Jessica Alba and Brian Lee! Alba and Lee will be joining our already impressive list of formidable Disrupt speakers, which so far includes: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Marc Benioff, super angel Ron Conway, Ben Horowitz, Vinod Khosla, Joel Klein, Yahoo's new CEO Marissa Mayer and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee. We can't wait and neither should you, so get your tickets here.

Localized social network Nextdoor is announcing $18.6 million dollar round today, led by Benchmark Capital and followed on DAG Ventures, Greylock Partners and Shasta Ventures. Investment bank Allen & Company, Pinnacle Ventures, Rich Barton, Anthony Noto and Dave Goldberg also participated in company's series A round. The Allen and Co participation is particularly unsurprising, seeing as though Nextdoor was one of the chosen presenters at this year's Sun Valley conference.

Enterprise workflow tool Asana has raised a $28 million Series B round, it announced earlier today, bringing its total funding to $38 million. The round was led by storied investor Peter Thiel and Founders Fund, who invested in the collaboration software alongside existing backers like Benchmark, Andreessen Horowitz, and Mitch Kapor. We're hearing that the valuation of the Series B was at a formidable $280 million post money ($252 million pre). We're also hearing that the pretty solid B round was a substantial initial investment for leader Founders Fund.

Many people in tech balk that this kind of fun culture stuff, both the reporting of it and the doing of it, is not "serious," arguing tautology. It's not serious for a reason dummy, it's what people do for fun. You wanted a tautological argument, so there you go. I for one am in love with the culture surrounding startups as well as the bumbling, subjective "journalistic" coverage of it. The fashion, music, memes, parties, artwork, literature, etc of tech, love it all -- And I especially love the fact that taking it seriously pisses people off like no other.