Life is a State of Mind (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
I am not a fan of Mike Arrington; his babble in TechCrunch is often wrong; but he is doing investigative journalism here and digging to find out more details about why playing games on Facebook and MySpace can be hazardous. That the NY Times failed to even mention that there are serious concerns in [...]
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Zynga, one of the largest virtual goods and gaming companies, promised it would stop running scam ads after Mike Arrington at Techcrunch called it out, amongst others, last Sunday . Then Zynga did it again . On Saturday Mike Arrington noticed the ads were back, but he had to use someone else's computer because the ads weren't showing on his connection. Deliberate blocking?...
Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... stuff. What they don't seem to realize is that it's unlikely to last. In the last couple weeks, Mike Arrington, over at TechCrunch, did an amazing job calling attention to the widely known, but rarely discussed in polite company, dark underbelly to most of those business models: quite a large part of their revenue is based on scammy offers that effectively trick unsophisticated purchasers...
Voices (Free subscription) | yesterday
Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington hired him.
AppShopper.com: Price Changes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Spell ✓ Email - TouchType 8.0 Category: Productivity Price: $2.99 -> $0.99 ( iTunes ) Description: The Reviewers Love TouchType: * "I’m adding this to my must have iPhone apps list." - Mike Arrington, TechCrunch.com * "Go and download TouchType at the iTunes App Store" - Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo.com * "Awesome application. Going straight to my dock!"...
Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
... stuff. What they don't seem to realize is that it's unlikely to last. In the last couple weeks, Mike Arrington, over at TechCrunch, did an amazing job calling attention to the widely known, but rarely discussed in polite company, dark underbelly to most of those business models: quite a large part of their revenue is based on scammy offers that effectively trick unsophisticated purchasers...
mathewingram.com/work (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike Arrington hired him. But I think his latest rant against “citizen journalism” [...]
TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work: Citizen journalism: I’ll take it, flaws and all — Paul Carr, who started writing for TechCrunch not long ago, is an entertaining writer, and he often puts his finger on issues that others tend to avoid in their headlong rush towards whatever is shiny and new, which is why I’m glad Mike [...]
Howard Lindzon (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I am a relatively careless surfer. I use the web to make me smarter. I don’t really mind (yet) that Companies are getting smarter as well. They should. That should make the whole experience better over the long run. Most of you that read this blog do so for financial and market trends, but when I am not writing about stocks I am writing about the Social Web. This last week, Mike Arrington...
localglo.be (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... of new distribution platforms like Facebook & iPhone So what's the real problem with Europe ? Mike Arrington knows that its not just that people like long-lunches . The problem is our region's cultural complexity and geographic fragmentation. When you include Africa and the Middle East, there are over 50 viable markets within a 5 hour time zone - the same time zone that separates...
MacEvangelism (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Silicon Alley Insider has heard that Mike Arrington's vision of an affordable Crunchpad web tablet is dying due to higher-than-expected costs. The fact is that the timeline for the Crunchpad... 1 Vote(s)
Gizmodo Australia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Silicon Alley Insider has heard that Mike Arrington’s vision of an affordable Crunchpad web tablet is dying due to higher than expected costs. (more…)
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Silicon Alley Insider has heard that Mike Arrington's vision of an affordable Crunchpad web tablet is dying due to higher-than-expected costs. The fact is that the timeline for the Crunchpad thus far reads like a vaporware gadget or the financially-challeged launch of the OLPC project . First, the Crunchpad was $200, then it became $300, then there was supposed to be an announcement...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There is an excellent article by Mike Arrington from Techcrunch on the subject of the duplicity of social gaming networks and social networks as fronts for businesses that trick people into signing up for monthly "services." [ Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell ] This is an issue that has been going on for some time. And it's not limited to the social gaming companies...
All Facebook (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
To see the ongoing conversation about aggressive online advertising is both reassuring as well as disconcerting. The reason that it’s disconcerting is that Mike Arrington has just begun to breach a much greater issue by randomly attacking one (or a couple) companies in this space. If this attack was done just for page [...]
