Techcrunch’ed’UK - it’s a shame
I want to add my voice to all the others out there on the recent goings on at Techcrunch.
Many others have described events, so I won’t do that. If you haven’t heard and are curious you can work around most of the coverage starting over at Broadstuff.
I think the whole saga is very unfortunate. I have a lot of time for Sam Sethi and the work he has been doing at Techcrunch. As I have written before this kind of activity is a very important catalyst for the UK internet scene. Also worthy of mention is that Sam has put a lot of work in without taking a lot out, if you know what I mean.
I am already hearing lots of chat about a replacement service, so hopefully this won’t prove to be much of a disruption.
December 15th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Here is an interview of Sam Sethi
Part 1 http://lelieninfo.typepad.com/le_lien_info/2006/12/interview_of_sa_1.html
Part 2 http://lelieninfo.typepad.com/le_lien_info/2006/12/interview_of_sa.html
December 15th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
Do you accept my first comment?
December 15th, 2006 at 11:29 pm
Nic,
I think this event is a clear sign of the problem of having techcrunch (MA) ruling he industry (at least for a PR/interest). Mathieu is preparing a post showing that techcrunch is around 15% of widget impression of mybloglog, TC also explain the rise of crunched start-ups in the alexa ranking.
Bubble on products is a real problem…
December 16th, 2006 at 11:49 am
I agree Raphael. The position of Techcrunch in the overall scheme of things isn’t sustainable as the sector grows - it will become a bottleneck (if it isn’t already). The TC impact on audience and Alexa ratings is a sign of that. Over time other equivalent channels should emerge.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:10 pm
We’ve started (or reactivated) http://www.web2fr.com
Wiki style so all french start-up can present what they do / link to press article … etc.
Hope it will work
December 19th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Isn’t TC just the Red Herring of the Blogosphere?
Or is that a red herring…..