Michael Arrington, author of TechCrunch, lead a session focused mostly on start-up Internet companies. Notes from that:
- Calls TechCrunch a micro-business, he employs 5 people
- Defines success as 1) making money AND 2) making the Internet a better place to hang out
- Rejects the notion that we’re all in an echo chamber and that none of these new companies won’t go mainstream (Digg gets as much traffic as the New York Times)
- YouTube is cool, he started watching SNL again after “20 years” because he saw a clip from the show there
- They spent $75,000 to launch Edgeio
- Pointed out Fox’s acquisition person in the audience, Heather
- He says MySpace is pulling a Friendster — slow page loads, things breaking, not enough people
- Chastised Scott Rafer (feedster founder, now with dogster — myspaces for pets) for not promoting the industry
As with Michael’s contention that I don’t support the industry, his other facts were wrong as well. I didn’t found Feedster (Scott Johnson and Francois Schiettecatte did), and I’m a only a part-time consultant at Dogster. At least he’s consistent.
Comment by Scott Rafer — July 1, 2006 @ 6:07 am
[...] I took relatively few notes at Gnomedex, but in addition to those from Michael Arrington’s talk in the morning on Friday, here are a few other notes from Saturday: [...]
Pingback by Rakesh Agrawal’s Blog » Other notes from Gnomedex: Dave Winer, Philip Kaplan, FactoryJoe and Tara hunt — July 9, 2006 @ 9:59 pm
[...] I arrived a few minutes late to Michael Arrington’s talk, but caught most of his presentation in my notes (see below). Mike’s the editor of TechCrunch, the hub for a lot of the enthusiasm and news coverage around Web 2.0, and he’s one of the self-appointed spokesman and evangelists for this new generation of web companies… which is a absolutely a good thing IMO. From my notes at Gnomedex, Mike’s measure of success for an internet company is 1) it makes money and 2) it makes the Internet a better place. My notes from his talk last week…Pretty good bets [...]
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