I have written about the media business in the past – and still do, though usually about how the media is getting trashed by the tech business – but the below YouTube video pretty much sums up how some – admittedly not all – media agencies conduct themselves.
You know what? It’s time to declare peace in the ongoing TechCrunch UK / TechCrunch US / Le Web 3 debacle. I will be making no further comment on this blog, or anyone else’s blog, about the matter. We’ve all, including me, said enough. It’s time to disarm and go home, wherever home is. Suffice it to say that I think in a parallel universe things might have happened differently.
I forgot to mention. I got onto BBC World’s “Click” show this week, in an interview about Second Life. The video is here. (Although the brand name they put against my name is now incorrect).
Today we launch Vecosys, a new blog to track UK, Irish and, moving outwards, European web 2.0 and mobile 2.0 startups. Today also happens to be my birthday. (We still need to do some more design on it, but it’s getting there)
Le Web 3 reaction Originally uploaded by Tom Morris. This says it all really.
PLEASE NOTE: Before you read the below post, here is the context: It was written after a very difficult few days following the collapse of the TechCrunch UK franchise in December 2006 due to the falling out of franchisee Sam Sethi, who I was working with, and TechCrunch owner Mike Arrington. It was also a time when my wife was ill in hospital. The wider context is this: I started
I hope to get time (today’s hospital visits allowing) to post more fully about this whole TechCrunch UK & Ireland debacle. However, in the mean time, one thing is clear: I have been locked out of the TechCrunch web site’s backend WordPress system. Update: I hadn’t planned on making this public but I feel I need to explain my slow response to the above issue. My wife was diagnosed with
Those who know me personally will know that today I was out of action accompanying someone from my family to hospital. That meant I wasn’t online most of the day, and the reason I couldn’t attend “Le Web 3” in Paris this week. So it’s come as a surprise, to say the least, to see what has happened with TechCrunch UK & Ireland and my colleague Sam Sethi. Although I
I wish I’d gone on this.
Here are two fascinating posts from VCs: “The fact is that watching video on the Internet is superior in many ways to traditional television, even with a Tivo. You can’t engage with TV delivered via a set top box. How do you email a TV show to a friend with a set top box? How to you comment on it? How do you favorite it? How do you subscribe to