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caption contest
The number of good ideas I've had
The annual gathering of techies at Tim O'Reilly's Foo Camp in Sebastopol is like Bohemian Grove but slightly less secretive. Want to know who was in and who was out? Investor Joi Ito's photos should give you an idea of who's who this year. Have a better caption? The best one will become the new headline. Friday's winner: "Two guys, one glass" by montoya. (Photo by Joi Ito)
blogging for dollars
AOL wants to buy TechCrunch at a 70 percent discount to Arrington's nine-figure price tag
Time Warner's AOL and TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington have been talking for the past two months, with AOL offering Arrington $20 million to $30 million to acquire tech's most dutiful clearinghouse for startup PR. Kara Swisher says that TechCrunch wants more than $30 million; we've heard he's looking for more like $100 million. Arrington has perpetually shopped his site around; all this deal talk reminds us how, just the other weekend, we overhead him wishing he could just sell out and move to Hawaii. Which makes for a nice pipe dream, but a weak negotiating position. Another reason to be skeptical: This is not Arrington's first flirtation with Time Warner. More »
Calley Nye
Did TechCrunch editor unpublish his writer after a breakup?
We had heard rumors that the relationship between 38-year old TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington and 22-year old Exonerated PR founder Calley Nye might have been more than strictly professional. Thanks to a tipster's sleuthing, we found that blabby blogger Robert Scoble had confirmed that the pair had consummated their relationship on Facebook. Since unpublishing posts written by former friends-with-benefits is all the rage these days, that might explain why Nye's latest post on TechCrunch has disappeared from the site — just like Arrington removed the relationship status indicator from his Facebook profile. After the jump, the official screenshot of Arrington's profession of affection for the most recent addition to the TechCrunch contributor list. More »
great moments in journalism
Meet Calley Nye, snacky flack turned TechCrunch contributor
Calley Nye is a fresh-faced young woman from Southern California who founded her own flack shack, Exonerated PR, to leverage a preternatural ability to sign up for every social network under the sun with the handle "Silicon Calley." In the Seesmic video above, the 22-year-old squeals with a friend, "We love you Michael Arrington," shortly before Arrington posted a shout-out for an unnamed PR person. Could Nye be the rep referred to? Arrington certainly liked her enough to hire her. More »
party report
Wellington Partners happy to spend our worthless American currency
At the brand new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco last night, the team at European VC firm Wellington Partners celebrated the addition of an outpost in Palo Alto to their existing offices in London and Munich with a swell mixer. The hors d'oeuvres? Cheese gougères, tiny lamb chops, mushroom napoleons, Kobe beef sliders, croutons with creme fraiche, smoked salmon and caviar and a bite-sized tuna tartar, all washed down with French wine which topped $300 a bottle — which, as the joke went, "Is like, what, 20 euros?" Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis explained that for European private equity investors, the American market offers a double-dip: More »
social news
TechCrunch's secret Digg army
How do TechCrunch stories make it to Digg's front page so often? With a little help from its friends, of course. Former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley, now a foe of editor Michael Arrington, posted a screenshot from his inbox revealing what Riley calls "The TechCrunch Digg Club." It includes four writers from TechCrunch proper; seven from gadgets blog CrunchGear; two from TechCrunchIT, Arrington's incomprehensible enterprise-tech spinoff; plus two or three interns. More »
social networks
Calacanis, Scoble, Arrington pawns in FriendFeed's smart marketing campaign
Egobloggers Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble as well as startup PR clearinghouse Michael Arrington all want to know: How amazing is it that after two years of using Twitter, they've each already got nearly half as many "followers" on FriendFeed after just a few months? Asking the question, each offer hypothetical answers involving the social-network aggregator's ease of use — "The comment systems is so fast and easy that it's perfect," says Calacanis — or Twitter's frequent outages — "Twitter downtime plays a big part," writes Arrington. But here's the real answer to the amazing growth these bloggers have seen on FriendFeed: More »
geek love
Valleywag fetishist seeks same on Craigslist
Our secret girl admirer writes, "The perfect, shared Sunday for me would consist of..." among other things, fighting over the Sunday Times and fondling iPhones. After an art flick, "[w]e could catch up on blogs like Valleywag and TechCrunch." Ooh, dreamy! As the only one on the masthead with a scant few degrees of sexual separation from both blogs' founding editors, I have some words of — well — we have not even begun to overshare. More »
geek love
Are Michael Arrington and Meghan Asha off again, and will Calacanis pick up the rebound?
Meghan Asha has been tied to notoriously workaholic TechCrunch publisher Michael Arrington over the last few months. But could she be tiring of a beau with no work-life balance?I need more dinners out with Jason Calacanis, rarely do you see a successful entrepreneur with such balance in all aspects of his life.More »
nerdfight
Is Duncan Riley getting the silent treatment from Michael Arrington?
We figured something was up when former TechCruncher Duncan Riley created his own tech news spinoff, the Inquisitr. We figured there was probably even more backstory when he suddenly became one of our most reliable caption contest commenters (and occassional winner). Now there seems to have been a split between Riley and his old boss Michael Arrington, who in a rather passive-aggressive farewell said "My sincere hope is to have the opportunity to buy that blog some day and bring him right back into the fold." But yesterday, Riley bookmarked "Is Mike Arrington a Dick?" and then wrote an only slightly cryptic message: More »
exits
If Brad Garlinghouse goes, where will TechCrunch get its Yahoo scoops?
It's not clear whether Brad Garlinghouse, the Yahoo executive who famously called for Yahoo to focus on doing fewer things well in his "Peanut Butter Memo," is out the door. AllThingsD says no, or not quite yet; TechCrunch says yes. Premature or not, Michael Arrington's epitaph to Garlinghouse's career at Yahoo is remarkable in its tone: More »
Copyfight
Did the New York Times Joker-ize Digg CEO Jay Adelson?
Saul Hansell quoted Digg CEO Jay Adelson defending the Associated Press (of which Hansell's publication the Times is a member). TechCrunch's Michael Arrington freaked out, natch. Adelson then attempted to further explain his complicated position, trying to be diplomatic. Yawn. As we've said before, and will say again, exercise your fair use rights under the law and shut up, because giving the AP attention just feeds its argument and therefore reinforces its position. Moving on: More »
We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To
Michael Arrington has at least one favored flack
Struggling to get your clients noticed by TechCrunch? Maybe it's because you're not one of the unnamed public relations BFFs Michael Arrington seems to be referencing in this Twitter update.if you're a young startup looking for PR help, ping me. I have someone you'll want to meet.More »
copyfight
Michael Arrington drops the banhammer on the Associated Press
A couple of bloggers have gotten their panties in a bunch because the Associated Press, a coop that offers original reporting to its 1,500 member newspapers and syndicates to other outlets, is asking that they go a little easier on the copy-paste. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is having none of it! More »
Michael Arrington's sleepovers
Does anyone else think it's the slightest bit odd that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington so regularly offers sleeping quarters to young male entrepreneurs? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Does anyone else think it's the slightest bit odd that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington so regularly offers sleeping quarters to young male entrepreneurs? Not that there's anything wrong with that.
we read twitter so you don't have to
Evan Williams's well-timed vacation
When his service is struggling with uptime at a high-profile event like Apple's WWDC, what does Twitter cofounder Evan Williams do? Take some personal downtime. He and wife Sara Morishige are vacationing from an undisclosed location — one that involves wakeboarding, tennis, chess, and dancing. While Williams relaxed, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington went nuts. Again.
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