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• Tools, startup review, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Sycophants, DOA

  RockYou and Slide = Ponzi Scheme 2.0

  12.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I have a great idea for a Web 2.0 start-up. Let’s raise $40 million from top name VCs to do a start-up to allow 15-year-old girls make slideshows! Let’s recruit top engineering talent and have our founding team include really smart people like Max Levchin of Paypal fame.
  It’s comical that no […]

• Creeps, Sycophants, TechCrunch, DOA, Blogroll

  Social Lending - Boom or Bust?

  09.21.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  What is Zopa?
  No, it’s not the latest group to hit the electronic music scene.
  Although you would never be able to guess from the name, Zopa is “the
  first lending and borrowing exchange.”  In case you still have no
  idea what Zopa does, it’s basically a way for people to borrow money
  from complete strangers or lend money to […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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, 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 […]

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