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Honestly, it’s impossible to work in these conditions. I’m writing this from the TechCrunch Real-Time CrunchUp ; a one-day event in San Francisco celebrating the joys of the ‘real-time’ web. Sounds awesome, right? It is.
I’ve been on stage, heckling participants on the marketing panel, I’ve been Tweeting from the audience, I’ve been following the live-blogging of the panels. Generally I’ve been living the real time dream – which probably explains why I haven’t done any actual work all day... Read Full Story
As any industry analyst will tell you, since its two journalists were returned from North Korea , Current.tv has been woefully overstaffed. The company simply doesn’t require that many employees to edit YouTube clips for its audience of jobless hipster doucheballs who have fallen asleep in front of the television.
And so it wasn’t entirely surprising this week when TechCrunch reported on a ‘ bloodbath ‘ at the company, with 80 people being laid-off across all departments.
Current’s COO... Read Full Story
Image via CrunchBase , source unknown The nerd fight is well underway between Techcrunch and Le Web generating controversy and its own share of commentary on the social networks (Twitter and Friend Feed) today. The long story short is that Techcrunch did something that Loc Le Meur did not like, and the nerd spat went on from there. Now you have “censorship” being called, and this and that, it is a nerd fight, do not expect it to make any sense, it is all about posturing.
Posturing in this... Read Full Story
You can get to the podcast right here , and there is a lot of humor here. Really if you want a laugh, you gotta listen to this.
Go screaming to minute 45 to get to the fun bit, it is great hearing pundits swear on a pod cast about “hiding behind a shroud of privacy while pushing their business forward” when it comes to Facebook agreeing to play in Google’s playground on the whole open ID single sign on hoopla that is infecting the tech elite this morning. There is some humor here listening... Read Full Story
I present my long form video documentary of the TechCrunch | August Capital Party held Friday, July 25th 2008 at August Capital and hosed by TechCrunch Co-Founder / Editor Michael Arrington. First, let me thank Michael for the opportunity to do this at his event, as well as the time he gave me. Second, let me thank all of you who gave me your time at the party, which was the vast majority of you. I set out to form a pattern of opinions on what the Democratic Party and Senator Obama should... Read Full Story
I’m writing this from the ‘club section’ (whatever that is) from San Francisco’s AT&T Park where, if I understand the scoring correctly (I don’t), the Cubs are leading the Giants 4-1. I’ve just eaten my second hot dog and I’m debating whether to buy a baseball cap emblazoned with the words ‘Go Giants’. I also just turned to my British friend Andrew to make an amusing American pop culture reference, prefacing my observation with the word “dude…”.
I mention all of this for two reasons. First... Read Full Story
I present my long form video documentary of the TechCrunch | August Capital Party held Friday, July 25th 2008 at August Capital and hosed by TechCrunch Co-Founder / Editor Michael Arrington. First, let me thank Michael for the opportunity to do this at his event, as well as the time he gave me. Second, let me thank all of you who gave me your time at the party, which was the vast majority of you. I set out to form a pattern of opinions on what the Democratic Party and Senator Obama should... Read Full Story
Robert Scoble and I ran into freshly-acquired FriendFeed cofounder Paul Buchheit at a brunch on Sunday. I pulled out my trusty Android myTouch and with his permission asked him a few questions about the sale to Facebook a week ago.
Apologies for the audio quality - Powerset’s Barney Pell , BillShrink’s Peter Pham and others were chatting loudly nearby (which led to a side discussion with Pell on the exact price Microsoft paid for Powerset in 2008). A full transcript of the interview is... Read Full Story
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington is known for being opinionated and blunt. Add the high profile within the tech industry of anything he publishes, and it’s surprising that Arrington and TechCrunch haven’t been legally threatened more often than the half dozen times Arrington listed in a post last year.
But ZDNet reports this morning that last Thursday, Arrington and TechCrunch were handed a default judgement by a British court which claims Arrington and his publication libeled a... Read Full Story
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Today is an interesting day in the ongoing saga of Blognation, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington. While I have written about this in the past , there is one final chapter in this story, and that is the default judgment in a UK court against Michael Arrington. I will have to add this to the story of Blognation and where it has gone. While many are not commenting, this really is one of the final chapters to the story; from here people should move on... Read Full Story
