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Is it time for TechCrunch to leave?

"Silicon Valley could use a downturn right now," laments Mr. Silicon Valley himself, Michael TechCrunch Arrington, in but another of his tour de force posts.It is not April Fools Day, so THAT is not an "excuse" THIS go around! SEE: Google, TechCrunch: When April Fool's is no jokeWhat gives this...

Tags: Business Models

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Is Web 2.0 over? TechCrunch bails on startups

TechCrunch goes pro: What’s the deal? I asked earlier this month.Michael Arrington, aka TechCrunch, now gives us the answer:Today we are announcing that we have acquired Philip “Pud” Kaplan’s FuckedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction.Are congratulations in order? Hardly.Arrington “explains” his editorial about face with typical TechCrunch pragmatism:Since FC...

Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Self-Promotion, Business Models, Blogs

Blog posts 2007-03-31

Digg: TechCrunch vs. Wired Magazine

Michael Arrington comes to the Digg rescue suggesting: “Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart.”On what does Arrington base his conclusion? Arrington:My bigger problem is that Wired isn’t simply reporting news about Digg. They’re making the news. And they’re going negative.Really? Where’s the...

Tags: Social Software, Social Media, Social Networking, Content, Self-Promotion, Digg, Amateur Content, Social Web, Culture

Blog posts 2007-03-01

Digg vs. Diggers?

Is Kevin Rose “snubbing” the very diggers that digg for the sake of Digg?  “Powerful Digg users,” believe they are “no longer wanted” and their labors of Digg love are “no longer appreciated” by Rose’s Digg, so says Michael Arrington.  What is the basis for restiveness among the Digg “elite”?...

Tags: Citizen Journalism, User-Generated Content, Social Web, Digg, Amateur Content, Self-Promotion, Social Media

Blog posts 2006-11-04

YouTube to Google: TechCrunch laying 40% odds

Wouldnt our world be boring without TechCrunch fanciful headlines to liven the blogosphere up?Michael Arringtons "Completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor" is one for the record books.Isnt a rumor "unsubstantiated" by definition? Perhaps Arrington believes such an oxymoronic phraseology provides professional "coverage." His statement "Based on experience with these sort of rumors,...

Tags: Google Inc., YouTube Inc., video, Arringtons, TechCrunch

Blog posts 2006-10-06

Web 2.0 short sellers: Arrington, Calacanis

Two of the most financially successful Web 2.0 personalities, Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis, are rooting for the financial failure of their competitors.Calacanis warns the newspaper industry at his blog:In another 18-24 months newspapers are gonna hit the bottom and I think I'm gonna swoop in and try and buy...

Tags: Calacanis, Web 2.0

Blog posts 2006-08-16

Web 2.0 cold shower: Mike vs. Nick

Rather than stoop to respond to Nick Carr’s weekend, gratuitous frontal attack, “Cold Treats,” Mike Arrington has taken his version of the high road by choosing to match Carr’s current treatise on the hypocritical inegalities of the blogosphere, "The Great Unread," with an Arrington style treatise: “Is Nick Carr the...

Tags: Digg, Mike Arrington, &ldquo, Is Nick Carr

Blog posts 2006-08-16

Additional Resources

Get those ToS sorted

The spat between WidgetLaboratory and Ning highlights one of the running sores in the current rush to all things 2.0: no-one and I mean no-one has given enough thought to how Terms of Service ToS are going to operate in the real world once cloud based services start to scale...

Tags: Terms Of Service, Ning, E-mail, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-25

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry Childs

Inside the mind - and config - of Terry ChildsGuilty of Incompetency in Office Politics, Being a JerkThe word is that Childs was the sole keeper of the passwords for months if not years, and management was aware of the situation during this period.The new director of security took a...

Tags: Workforce management, IT Field, Terry Childs

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!Reinventing the wheelIt's been done albeit not quite $200 but the technology has been here--The Nokia N800/810. I've got an 800. The 800 shares the same multi-core TI ARM processor as the 810, except the 810 has a slide out keyboard. ...

Tags: Notebooks, Channel management, Keyboards, Operating systems, OS 2008, web tablet, laptop computer, Web, Nokia Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!

Hands up anyone who would love to get their hands on a web tablet for $200 ... that pretty much all of you. OK, now hands up who thinks that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame can deliver this ... by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Web, Tablet, Web Tablet, Channel Management, Marketing, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-07-23

Aren't the Nokia N800/N810 devices dead simple web tablets?

Michael Arrington's post on creating a cheap web tablet is generating a lot of discussion on the internet and as a mobile enthusiast I wanted to add some of my thoughts to the discussion. There is a device available now that has dropped down as low as US$299.99 recently that...

Tags: Web, Device, Nokia Corp., Michael Arrington, Tablets, Channel Management, Notebooks, Internet, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-22

Twitter going commercial?

According to Mike Arrington, there is a commercial play for Twitter in the works. During a conversation with Ev Williams, Twitter co-founder: MA: What is your revenue model? Do you know yet? Have you thought about it? EW: We've thought about it. We had...

Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Operational Accounting, Productivity, Processors, Online Communications, Finance, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-16

News to know: iPhone; DNS patch; Online privacy; VMware; Vista

Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: A Modest Privacy Proposal Richard Koman: Congress looks at next-gen ad networks Techmeme: iPhone reviews Matthew Miller: MSM Apple iPhone reviews are up and may just have saved me some cash ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, DNS, Online Privacy, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp., HP iPAQ 910, 3G, Domain Names, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Make Customer Experience a Cornerstone of Your Revenue Strategy

View this BNET Webcast to hear industry expert Jeffery Tarter, Executive Director of the Association of Support Professionals ASP, share how leading companies are investing in support and services to deliver a better customer experience, which translates to customer loyalty and reoccurring revenue. Also, listen as Services Management Consultant Robert...

Tags: Strategy, Revenue, Citrix Systems Inc., Customer Experience, Operational Accounting, Finance

Webcasts 2008-07-09

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behaviorCorrect me if I'm wrongFrom what I understand, MS has [b]zero[/b] power over Yahoo stockholders. MS made an offer, the board rejected it, and some major stockholders believe the board made a mistake. To say MS and Icahn are...

Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Arrington, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Michael Arrington, board

Discussion threads 2008-07-08

Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is miffed. Microsoft crossed a line by ganging up on Yahoo with Carl Icahn. Arrington outlines his case, but the last sentence is what intrigued me: "I'm all for a merger. But I won't stand by quietly while Microsoft destroys what's left of...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Help Desk, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, It Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-08

Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world

Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-06-18

Overly restrictive A.P. quoting guidelines risk winning battles at the war's expense

Saul Hansell reports today that the Associated Press "will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt without infringing on The A.P.'s copyright." The problem with "clear...

Tags: Reproduction, Standards, A.P., Quality, Blogging, Channel Management, Business Operations, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2008-06-16

AOL support for OpenSocial; Too many friends?; Gears to power MySpace messaging; Obama prefers Facebook

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… AOL announces support for OpenSocial. These days we can no longer talk in terms of 'company x' joining Google's OpenSocial, since the standard for creating socially...

Tags: Facebook, Result, America Online Inc., Google OpenSocial, Messaging, MySpace, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O\'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-29