August 2007

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• Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, TechCrunch

  Michael Arrington: Shill of the Week

  08.09.07 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  At least in Amsterdam, they’re clear. You pay for what you want. TechCrunch pretends they don’t get paid for their crappy articles.
  Using every opportunity to shill for Ooma, Michael Arrington wrote about Vonage’s improving results and threw in that he’s switching to Ooma. Let’s note why Michael Arrington and TechCrunch are […]

• Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, DOA

  IntenseDebate: Not Very Intense, Founders are Tense

  08.08.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Josh, the founder of a TechStars short-kids bus start-up IntenseDebate, already got owned in regular debate. I will give it to Josh for at least having the balls to step down when he knew he had no arguments and trying to carry on a reasonable debate unlike the regular Y Bombinator tools.
  Why does Intense […]

• Snake Oil Salesmen, DOA

  Dell buys Zing, nobody cares

  08.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dell announced Monday it’s intentions to buy “privately held Zing Systems Inc., a company that focuses on always-on connected audio and entertainment devices”. Yawn. Nobody cares. And for good reason. This proves, yet again, that Dell just doesn’t get it.
  They go out and buy some little shitbrick piece of […]

• Web 1.0, DOA

  NYT Lays an Egg - Says Bye Bye to Paying Users

  08.07.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  “Why is my employer so stupid?” We’re wondering the same thing Tom.
  The once venerable New York Times has decided according to the never-venerable Mashable to end it’s premium “Times Select” service. With approximately 220,000 members paying $7.95 per month, the NYT was generating $1.75 MM per month or $21 MM per year. […]

• Tools, TechCrunch, DOA

  Is Blogging Ready for a Retarded Workforce?

  08.06.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  What’s not to like about communism? Our favorite blogtard Duncan Riley writes another eloquent post about whether bloggers should unionize. While his conclusion is that it won’t happen because of the supply of labor, there are a few other arguments against blogger unionization that he misses:
  1. Unionization leads to a “minimum wage” […]

• Creeps

  Brad Stone: Way to go, asshole.

  08.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Brad Stone, you are a douchebag. Thanks a lot for ruining the mystery of Fake Steve Jobs. No namaste for you!

• TechCrunch, DOA

  NoFoodHere = NoBrainHere

  08.05.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Duncan Riley continues his verbal diarrhea over at TechCrunch spewing shit over the world for Web 2.0 fanboys to lap up. Today, we note the lovely NoFoodHere which is a quaint search engine that allows tabbed searching with live updating of results to give you an endless stream of useless information. It’s […]

• Hate Mail

  Our very first hate mail

  08.04.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Writes “Anonymous”:
  “It’s strange that a guy like you, who just throws shit in random directions hoping it will offend anyone so you get some traction, are in fact anonymous. It’s a good plan, I have to agree. Stand in the corner and tell people they suck. Now, you don’t want this displayed on your blog, […]

• Tools, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants

  Toolbox Profile #1: Guy Kawasaki

  08.03.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Few Valley personalities make us dry heave like Guy Kawasaki. If you’re not familiar with him, he is the perpetually shit-eating grin wearing Tony Robbins of tech. If you doubt his credentials as a total toolbox, he is widely credited with inventing the concept of “corporate evangelism”…a nice-sounding description for what is essentially […]

• Web 1.0, Sycophants

  Dave McClure = Web 1.0 Success, Web 2.0 Sycophant

  08.03.07 | Permalink | 14 Comments

  It is one thing to see silly fanboys orgasming over each other about their latest social network for unemployed 24-year old coders in the 415 area code, but when one sees someone who has a pretty impressive resume become a fanboy, it’s even sadder.
  Dave McClure is, or rather was, a smart guy. He was […]

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