Posts Tagged with ‘Michael-Arrington’

Mere hours after Michael Arrington reported that his sources suggested that MySpace would roll out support of OpenID some time later this week, the rumors have been confirmed officially in a press release. And it would have been strange not to expect a big announcement from MySpace the day before Facebook’s developer conference, right?
So initially MySpace will serve as an issuer of login credentials for its users (so that their MySpace URLs can be used as logins for other sites [...]

When I saw the announcement for TechCrunch50 (or whatever number Michael Arrington and Jason Calcanis end up changing it to), I let out a little gasp, but I'm not sure why I was surprised. It took me a little while to digest that they were so blatant as to schedule the dates for their start-up launch event right on top of DEMO's fall dates.
It's taken me a few hours to digest it, really. I had to consider what this means [...]

Forbes published Tuesday evening its second annual Web Celeb 25 list highlighting the most influential – both positively and negatively, we suspect – names known throughout the digital ether that have had the most impact on the 2007 zeitgeist of buzztastic junk.
Now, before we go any further and share some feelings about the picks as chosen by the business magazine, we feel it imperative to start with a question, short and simple: Why the cold shoulder? Why no Profy [...]

Another piece for you today about media and pricing, this one a rebuttal to TechCrunch editor and proprietor Michael Arrington?s insistence that recorded music is heading toward an existence as a ?free? commodity.
Firstly, I must say I agree with several of Mr Arrington?s points, one being that DRM is headed on a downward spiral to eventual eradication, and another that CDs sales are plummeting as well.
But there?s a portion of his argument that I can?t possibly accept, which has to [...]

Should we expect everything on the Web to be free? Is anything really free even on ad supported sites? I was reading a post on the AuditorumA blog today - dealing with these very questions - and I think it is about time we wrestled with free versus paid as models for monetization. I have talked with AuditoriumA's CEO Tony Mars on a couple of occasions and I reviewed his upscale human search site last month. Tony makes some valid [...]

Why is everybody ragging on Rocketboom?
Jason Calacanis, formerly of AOL, was heard talking down Rocketboom on a recent episode of the TWiT podcast due to its supposed lack of substance (while making sure to direct listeners time and again to keep an eye out for a daily video show currently being prepped for launch in the next few weeks as a complement to Mahalo, a sort of human-powered search engine. And in a post published this morning [...]

Profy correspondent Cyndy Aleo-Carreira was right on when she told of how fantastic InviteShare was - in Michael Arrington’s view. So fantastic, apparently, that he’s gone ahead and made it his own.
That’s right. The service that could very well turn out to be much more of a hindrance in the beta sphere than an aid is now under the Crunch cloud. According to Mr Arrington himself, he’ll be using it to disseminate access keys and codes to his [...]

Spock has been a much anticipated startup with a vision for a much deeper people search capability. This private beta was announced at the Web 2.0 Expo back in April and the stated mission has been to organize information around people and to create a search result for everyone on the planet. What Spock is trying to develop is the most accurate and relevant search application focused on people.
The company was founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh. [...]

AllOfMP3 hasn’t fooled anyone with its ridiculously low-priced tracks. The site’s operators have claimed repeatedly that middlemen working for the recording industry were remunerated by the sales, despite repeated assertions by members of the RIAA, among other organizations, that they had yet to see any funds from the Russia-based operation. And it would only take an ounce of reason to deduce that no cash had or would ever be transferred from the folks working the store at AllOfMP3 to [...]