Techcrunch readers chime in on the CrunchPad litigation
Wow. Just wow. And that's just the first comment. Is their comment moderation broken? Or are they just okay with that? Unbelievable.
Also, fuck you, Jason.
Source: Techcrunch
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CrunchPad - cyrku ciąg dalszy
Arringotn gra nie tylko teraz o swój biznes związanych z tym urządzeniem - ale też nie może powzwolić sobie na utratę zaufania, zapatrzonych w niego czasami bezkrytycznie, użytkowników Techcruncha. Nie wiem jakie fakty wyciągnie Rathakrishnan, ale mam nadzieję, że amerykanin nie dał ciała na żadnym innym polu poza nadmiarem naiwnej wiary w szczerość biznesową kooperanta.
Czas pokaże gdzie faktycznie leży prawda. Ale wątpie - niezależnie od faktów - żeby singapurczycy dowiedli swoich racji.A dla Chandry Rathakrishnana - opaska na czoło i czarka sake - bo to wystąpienie to lot kamikaze.
Więcej znajdziecie tutaj.Mój poprzedni post na ten temat znajdziecie tutaj.
Who killed the CrunchPad
Mohan Belani from Singapore's e27 blog attempts to find out the cause of CrunchPad's prenatal termination. So far we've only heard Michael Arrington's side of the story but nothing has come out from Fusion Garage. Almost exactly a month ago I asked whether the CrunchPad was crunched and a few days later, it was. Being in Singapore and very close to the startup scene there I'm sure Mohan will be able to dig more about Fusion Garage and what happened. At the moment, everyone is still waiting for their version of events.
While personally I think an iPod touch would be better suited for couch surfing than the CrunchPad, the larger screen of the CrunchPad may have been a deal breaker for some. Regardless, I mourn the loss of a potential new entrant in the race to bring us closer to what humans would look like in the future as depicted in Wall-E.
The End Of The CrunchPad
It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch the CrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves – the user interface was intuitive enough that people “got it” without any instructions. And the look of pure joy on the handful of outsiders who had used it made the nearly 1.5 year effort completely worth it.
Our plan was to debut the CrunchPad on stage at the Real-Time Crunchup event on November 20, a little over a week ago. We even hoped to have devices hacked together with Google Chrome OS and Windows 7 to show people that you could hack this thing to run just about anything you want. We’d put 1,000 of the devices on pre-sale and take orders immediately. Larger scale production would begin early in 2010.
And then the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.
via techcrunch.com
I really feel bad for these guys. The CrunchPad looked to be a new kind of product that really felt the tangible suggestions of it's users. It's too bad it didn't work out. Click through the link above for the full story.
“We f**cked it up” czyli o słabości europejskiego rynku startupów prosto z mostu
Szybki post. Dobry artykuł. Przeczytajcie. Zwłaszcza, jeśli penetrujecie rynek startupów tylko na lokalnym, polskim rynku - odrywając się od przepaści jaka dzieli stary kontynent od zasobów i podejścia reprezentowanego przez Amerykę. Warto - “We f**cked it up”: Lack of media companies buying startups is Europe’s achilles heel says Hommels
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Inauguracyjnie - klęska CrunchPad'a
Szkoda. Nie jest to ani pierwszy ani ostatni taki event. Mały - choć ambitny i ze świetnym wsparciem wielu dużych marek - biznes, nie ma szans w starciu z arogancją numeru jaki zlinczował CrunchPada. Wytoczą proces - komu i gdzie? Będą łapać - kogo i gdzie? To czuć w poście Arringtona (ojca ojców całości). Nie odpuści, ale to działania bardziej symboliczne - bo nie wyreanimują projektu.W tle słychać marudzenie komentarzy. W tym ludzi europejskiego oddziału TC. Bardzo naiwne w treści. Wręcz dziecięce w urodzie. Ale te dzieci ocierają zaspane oczy ze zdziwienia, że ktoś "załatwił" TechCruncha, który z taką swobodą ocenia biznesy i potencjał innych. TEGO TechCruncha i TEGO Arringtona. Deus ex machina? Trzymam kciuki. Ale za idee tego urządzenia. Nie za gonienie ludzi na drugim końcu świata. Szkoda energii. W tłumie im podobnych, są u siebie już od dawna anonimowi. Tak samo jak Arrington z ich punktu widzenia.Przeczytajcie. Bo podobny event, zaliczyć możecie nawet lokalnie i wtedy nie będzie nawet tak egzotycznie, by wymigać się od metki "naiwniaka".The End Of The CrunchPad - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/
oraz więcej o samym urządzeniu - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-prototype/
The End Of The CrunchPad?
Excerpt:
It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to publicly launch theCrunchPad. The device was stable enough for a demo. It went hours without crashing. We could even let people play with the device themselves – the user interface was intuitive enough that people “got it” without any instructions. And the look of pure joy on the handful of outsiders who had used it made the nearly 1.5 year effort completely worth it.
Our plan was to debut the CrunchPad on stage at the Real-Time Crunchup event on November 20, a little over a week ago. We even hoped to have devices hacked together withGoogle Chrome OS and Windows 7 to show people that you could hack this thing to run just about anything you want. We’d put 1,000 of the devices on pre-sale and take orders immediately. Larger scale production would begin early in 2010.
And then the entire project self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.
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Full Article: Tech Crunch
RIP CrunchPad
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Human greed once again comes in the way of what could have been a killer product for all Netizens.
"This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple."
Aviary’s Chrome Extension Proves That These Add-Ons Are Going To Be Awesome
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"Aviary’s new Chrome extension is simple, but very useful. Once you install it, it adds a little icon to the right side of the URL bar. Clicking on this icon gives you a drop down menu of options. Most give you easy access to Aviary’s suite of tools, but the first option is key. It’s the one that allows you to capture the visible portion of any web page you are on with one click. From there, the image is loaded into whichever Aviary tool you set as the default editor."
How not to analyse Twitter's stats - pt.43
CAUTION: unfiltered rant...
Another day, another thrilling piece of navel-gazing by the tech industry. This time from the mighty TechCrunch who give us Blogging Vs. Microblogging: Twitter’s Global Growth Flattens, While WordPress’ Picks Up. Good to see they're picking up some tips from political journalism - stuff the analysis, it's a horserace!
The article ticks at least one of the boxes in the Heaths' classic Made To Stick about what makes stories memorable: it is 'unexpected'. All year it's been "Twitter Twitter Twitter" and "blogging is dead". But what's this? Mercy me! Twitter's "flattening off" and Wordpress is "picking up". Look, they've discreetly annotated the graph to help you out:
My problem (apart from possibly terminal sarcasm) is that, as almost anyone who uses Twitter knows, a lot of people use apps to tweet and may never visit the website at all. A *lot* of people. A random trawl through my stream shows up half a dozen different apps used in the sapce of a few minutes.
Actual research on this seems scarce. However, this effort from Sysomos has the web as by far and away the most common means of tweeting, used by 46%. However, that still means the majority of users *don't* use the website.
[Disclaimer: I have no reason to distrust these raw figures, however some dubious analysis elsewhere in the report dosen't fill me with confidence.]
If this is the case then what is the point in comparing Twitter website visits with Wordpress? Website drop-off could quite easily be offset by increased app usage, a not unreasonable hypothesis. *You are simply not comparing like with like.* I have no way of knowing what Twitter's trends are overall. They may well be flattening off after this year's insane growth. I'm no expert. What I do know is that there are a *lot* more interesting topics that could do with some serious analysis right now rather than a perpetual horserace propped up by dubious evidence.
