Monday, November 9, 2009
Citizen Journalism: I’ll Take It, Flaws and All
Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington hired him.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Is All of Hollywood the Bitch in Twitter “Sex Tape,” or Just P. Diddy?
Regardless of what you think of Techcrunch founder Michael Arrington’s ethics, what has been revealed via the Techcrunch #twittergate is some of the most fascinating information to have hit the mediasphere in a long time.
Friday, July 17, 2009
In a Pinch, Arrington Will Fence
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Twitter Hacking Spurs Ethics Debate Over Leaked Files
The hacking of Twitter CEO Evan Williams’s email account has sparked an ethics debate after TechCrunch said that it would publish some of the confidential documents that the hacker leaked.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Spinning the Web: P.R. In Silicon Valley
Brooke Hammerling (publicist) and Erin McKean (entrepreneur) are in a Sand Hill Road conference room, hashing out plans to unveil Ms. McKean’s new Web site, Wordnik.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Valleywag’s Departing Editor Reflects On His Time At Gawker Media
When I read the news on TechCrunch that Valleywag’s longtime editor, Owen Thomas, was leaving the gossip site, I wondered whether there was a bit of schadenfreude in this reporting.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Does Google Really Control the News?
Once again, Google is the favorite bogeyman responsible for the rapid deterioration in the health of the news industry.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Then Kill Yourself Now
Yesterday, as Techcrunch’s Michael Arrington was leaving the DLD conference venue in Munich, one of the conference attendees walked up to him and spat in his face. I’ll say that again. One of the attendees. Walked up to him. And spat. In. His. Face. And then without a word, the attacker turned on his patent leather heel and vanished back into the crowd.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Innovation Doesn’t Take a Vacation in an Economic Downturn
By the end of 2008, venture capital had been officially declared dead. Start-ups were laying people off so fast that even TechCrunch couldn’t manage to keep up. University endowments and foundations, the source of the “capital” in venture capital, were hemorrhaging so badly from their public company investments that many long-time believers in “alternative assets” declared a moratorium on venture capital. And the IPO market was a distant memory. Good times!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Future of Social Search (Or Why Google Should Buy Facebook)
If you could search your friends’ thoughts, interests, and activities, would that be a better search experience? In many cases, it would be. Searching for restaurants, books, or movies, would turn up recommendations from people you actually know.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Should Facebook Be Tapping Users for Cash?
It hasn’t even been a month since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a German blog that growth, not monetization, was the priority for the social-networking site. In fact, he even went so far as to say that he didn’t see a revenue plan coming into play for three more years.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Motorola’s Loss Is Apple’s Gain: That $2.1 Billion Sucking Sound Is Coming From the iPhone
Razr anyone? Motorola can’t even give those things away anymore. The once-proud company reported horrible earnings today, with sales down 21% and a net loss of $194 million. But the big takeaway was the 39% collapse in its mobile phone business. Mobile device revenues in the quarter dropped $2.1 billion compared to last year.
Coincidentally enough, that is almost exactly how much Apple made last quarter over the past three quarters on iPhone sales. That figure comes to $2.3 billion (including lumped-in sales of Apple TVs, which likely made up a very small portion of that total).
Friday, April 11, 2008
For Some Reason, Twitter Hasn’t Yet Taken the Journalist Community by Storm
After the derision that greeted the New York Times’s blogging-will-kill-you story on Sunday, I’m probably not going to do much for the reputation of the mainstream media with hard-core bloggers. So it goes.
Out of curiosity, I drew up a list of 55 technology journalists to find out how many use Twitter, arguably one of the most important social-media technologies on the scene. I included names of some online reporters–including colleagues from CNET as well as TechCrunch–but in the main, the list is comprised of people employed by A-list newspapers and periodicals.
Monday, March 24, 2008
At Launch, Mytopia Shows Social Networks How to Play Nicely Together
There is a new casual gaming network in town that’s got some serious cross-platform chops. Don’t be fooled by the cutesy graphics. Today, Mytopia is simultaneously launching across Facebook, Bebo, MySpace (currently pending approval) and its own Web site with eight games (chess, backgammon, sudoku, dominoes, bingo, spades, hearts and video poker). On Monday, it will release the same games across the major Web and desktop widgets: iGoogle Gadgets, Apple Dashboard Widgets, Yahoo Widgets and Windows Vista Toolbar Widgets.
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