August 2007

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• TechCrunch, DOA

  Family Trees Web 2.0 Style Are Lame

  08.29.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Yawn. TechCrunch reports that MyHeritage and Geni are really duking it out. MyHeritage has raised $9 MM over three rounds. Geni has raised $11.5 MM at stupid valuations if TechCrunch is to be believed. It’s also interesting that the investors aren’t particularly known for foolishness either - Accel, The Founder’s […]

• Tools, Sycophants, TechCrunch

  Scoble Fellates Facebook and Mahalo, Duncan Riley Goes for Sloppy Seconds

  08.27.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  “I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US, er, should should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries”
  Robert Scoble once again demonstrates that he is a a giant tool. Don’t get us wrong. We get link baiting just like everyone […]

• Announcements

  TechDumpster needs a few good men (or women)

  08.18.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Want to be famous? Date supermodels (male or female)? Improve your golf game? Well then it’s time for you to join TechDumpster as a contributor. Does it pay? Nope. Not yet, at least. Hell, we don’t even make money off this beast and we own the damn thing. […]

• Snake Oil Salesmen, Y Combinator, DOA

  TechStars - Boulder, We Have a Problem

  08.17.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  At serious organizations like NASA, when things go wrong, they try to figure out why. At joke incubators when things go wrong, they just wait for Web 3.0.
  Coders who go through an incubator are not entrepreneurs. Many “hackers” who run Web 2.0 sites are not entrepreneurs. The definition of an entrepreneur […]

• Creeps, Sycophants, TechCrunch

  Differential Treatment: Facebook vs. Myspace

  08.14.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Two blowhard idiots. One gets called on it, the other gets away because of bias in the media.
  I find it incredible that the tech fluffers (Peter Thiel has a casting call out for “Personal Bitch” - I know Scoble and McClure have an app in, anyone else?) seem to think Facebook can do no […]

• Creeps, Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, DOA

  Paid is better than Free, Michael Arrington needs a Homo Sapien Brain

  08.13.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Assuming Michael Arrington is able to find a mate, his descendants may in 3.5 million years have normal reasoning abilities.
  TechCrunch is an awful enough blog for covering worthless businesses, but now it’s criticizing a legitimate company, 37signals, for giving bad advice? It’s one thing to be an idiot, but it’s simply unacceptable for Michael […]

• Tools, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, DOA

  Gnomedex is a Joke, Scoble is Still a Tool

  08.13.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Gnomedex is another one of those stupid Web 2.0 events where the self-important bloggers come together to talk about how they can use social news sites and organic whole bean tofu curd improve the world. A Warner Music executive Ethan Kaplan summarizes it better than I could myself saying:
  What was supposed to, and what […]

• Tools, Hate Mail, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Sycophants, Y Combinator

  Why Being Anonymous Makes TechDumpster More Honest

  08.11.07 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  It always amazes me how many people like to dismiss TechDumpster and Living in First Life’s comments and arguments simply because we refuse to disclose who we are.  Our anonymity is in fact the primary reason we write what we believe to be one of the most honest blogs in the Web 2.0 world.  Here […]

• Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, TechCrunch, Y Combinator

  Michael Arrington and Paul Graham Can’t Debate

  08.11.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  It’s funny how people like Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) and Paul Graham (Y Combinator) love the idea of logic. They use the impression of it to keep their fanboys happy. The moment someone tries to use logic against them they dodge the issue and just ignore it or use fake logic. Here are some […]

• Sycophants, Y Combinator

  Anywhere.fm going Nowhere.fm + Don Dodge Has No Balls

  08.10.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  As with formerly intelligent folks like Dave McClure, Web 2.0 has a magical ability to make people forget logical reasoning skills. Today, we discover the odd case of Don Dodge, Director of Business Development at Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. He had the cajones to stand up to Paul Graham’s stupid article about how […]

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