Posts Tagged with ‘Mike-Arrington’

Shel vs. Loren (and puppet). TechCrunch50 vs. DEMO. Mike Arrington vs. Pete Cashmore (and, well, pretty much everyone). We've all seen the constant battle of words in the blogosphere, but the real question is why these altercations come up at all.
In the world of Web 2.0, attention is everything. Getting attention and maintaining an audience are crucial to any type of success for a company, and the struggle for eyeballs has continued to escalate as a result. It's no longer [...]

When I first got out of college and had to get a real job, I met a lot of resistance when it came to technical writing jobs, which was what I originally intended to do. From software development companies to engineering companies, they all said the same thing: the writing degree was fine, but I wasn't a programmer/engineer, and therefore, "couldn't understand." Based on a lot of the documentation I've seen in user manuals and other documentation since then, I'd [...]

In case you are living in a cave this weekend, I'll tell you the "big new" in Web 2.0: Seesmic managed the coup of getting Steve Spielberg, George Lucas, and a good portion of the cast of the upcoming Indiana Jones movie to set up channels and respond to questions posed by The Guardian's Jemima Kiss. The one person you'd expect to be crowing about it would be Seesmic friend/investor/cheerleader Mike Arrington, but he's pretty ticked off about the whole [...]

If you pay any attention at all to the tech blogosphere, you'll notice that there have been several recurrent themes lately. One is the concept of A-listers in any community. While Guy Kawasaki shares the CNET study which feels that information has more of a diamond shape than a pyramid, which information trickling down from the A-listers at the point, Alex Iskold over at ReadWriteWeb notes that the 80-20 rule is in play on Twitter, with 80% of the [...]

I didn't want to rehash SXSW. But after reading both Kara Swisher and Mike Arrington's take on it, I find myself in strange company, because I agree with both of them, and this apparently puts me in the minority.
Two years ago, I would have sold my soul to attend SXSW. The past two years, it's seemed less and less about tech and more and more about a four-day-long party with the “cool” kids. Is it making up for time spent [...]

edgeio, which launched its classified ad platform a little under a year ago, has finally sold its assets, directing all inquiries to Looksmart and Vast. edgeio had secured $6.5 million (USD) in funding prior to its collapse, but when the money ran out in December, revenue wasn't sufficient to keep the company afloat, nor secure more funding.
The Guardian quotes edgeio co-founder Mike Arrington:
"The company burned through that money according to plan, meaning they ran out this month [December]. The product [...]