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Twitter Wins Crunchie for Best Product of the Year
The fourth annual Crunchies have come to a close, with some of this year’s winners coming as a surprise. The show was well done and the hosts did their best to keep the assembled crowd amused. However, I have to say that Om Malik was likely the most engaging personality to hit the stage tonight. [...]
How Does Google Affect Your Brain?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed TechCrunch had a great title for a recent article: “Just Because Google Exists Doesn’t Mean You Should Stop Asking People Things.” We get annoyed when co-workers or bosses ask us silly questions that they themselves could have Googled. However, the bigger [...]
TechCrunch and AOL: A Match Made in Heaven?
The web has exploded with news of AOL purchasing TechCrunch. Instead of rushing to throw a blurb here on my blog, I wanted to take time to read what everyone else is saying. What are people thinking about this massive merger of minds? Is the tech blog world as we know it about to end? [...]
Super Sleuth Mike Arrington Uncovers a Plot – or Does He?
I know from talking to people in our community that all of you either absolutely love Michael Arrington – or you hate him. Either way, you have to hand it to the guy today: he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is on the side of what is right. Is he always [...]
Bartz Curses Arrington at TechCrunch Disrupt
Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz participated in a cozy little chat with TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington earlier today during TechCrunch Disrupt. True to himself, Michael opened the chat by asking Carol “So how the fuck are you?” Niceties aside, Arrington got down to the nitty gritty. There have been a couple of major changes over at [...]
Goodbye iFrame Toolbar – Hello Sites Now Unbanned on Digg.
Things sure are shaking up around the Digg offices this week. On his first official day as CEO, Kevin Rose has laid out a few interesting changes which should vastly improve the popular social networking site. The DiggBar we have all come to hate is going to finally disappear in the upcoming version of the [...]
TechCrunch Loses Steve Gillmor to Salesforce
Michael Arrington received news a short while ago that he had hoped to never hear: long-time friend and mentor Steve Gillmor is leaving TechCrunch. Steve is the founding editor of TechCrunchIT, and has been writing about technology for more than thirty years. Beginning Monday, Gillmor will be on the senior team at Salesforce. The founder [...]
Are Online Reputations Really Dead?
Michael Arrington recently posted an article on TechCrunch discussing online reputations. Reputation Is Dead: It’s Time To Overlook Our Indiscretions seems to be Arrington’s way of laying it on the proverbial line, and giving up the ghosts of his past. He feels strongly that in the very near future, we won’t care so much about [...]
What Happens When FriendFeed Goes Down?
Earlier this morning, an article was posted on TechCrunch, discussing the fact that FriendFeed was apparently not working. The author claims that the remaining two FriendFeed users were ticked off at being unable to reach their favorite service. With tongue in cheek, he talks of how FriendFeed has become a ghost town since its acquisition [...]
Is There Too Much Noise in Social Media?
An article over on TechCrunch today sparks an interesting thought. Michael Arrington states that “The online social landscape today sort of feels to me like search did in 1999. It’s a mess, but we don’t complain much about it because we don’t know there’s a better way.”. He continues that rationale by discussing how things [...]
The Other Mike from TechCrunch
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed If you’re not following Mike Butcher on Twitter, you’re missing out! He writes for TechCrunch – but only for a specific part! Mike and I ran into each other at the [re]Think Hawaii conference recently, and had to talk about social [...]
Who Will Dominate the Internet?
I read an article on TechCrunch earlier today, discussing how Twitter will soon dominate the Internet, replacing even Google as the king. This made me stop and think for a bit. I mean, come on… Google is, well… Google! Do we honestly believe that anything could topple it from its undeniable reign at the top [...]
