techcrunch room

quoting dbreunig <http://news.ycombinator.com/item...> "I bet the IP TechCrunch owns is simply the brand "CrunchPad." Good luck with that suit. Fusion Garage's story is infinitely more believable than Arrington's." - Fulaan from Bookmarklet

This whole session here is really damning. - Fulaan

"The strange saga of the CrunchPad is getting even stranger: although Fusion Garage has a press conference scheduled for Monday, the company's apparently been hinting to some members of the press that the split with Michael Arrington was no surprise, and that TechCrunch didn't actually contribute anything of value to the CrunchPad. As you'd expect, that's got Arrington on the warpath. In a post titled "CrunchPad Litigation Imminent," he offers up an email from Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan and two letters dispatched from his lawyers to both Fusion Garage and would-be CrunchPad ODM Pegatron that paint a much different picture: Chandra calls the split "out of the blue," Pegatron won't produce anything without TechCrunch's "explicit approval," and there was apparently even talk of merger between Fusion Garage and Arrington's CrunchPad, Inc. That certainly puts the timeline into dispute, but Mike's various CrunchPad intellectual property claims are far less solid, and... more... - Fulaan from Bookmarklet

Didn't Arrington already say it was a "joint" technological partnership? He also asserted something about the only thing he has control of vis-a-vis the partner issue is his term "Crunch". So the other partner in the failed partnership can't use the name "Crunchpad" to refer to the device. I understand that pretty much everything was off the shelf otherwise and/or that both partners had equal rights to that technology?! - S.D.Allen from email

"The government keeps stats on all of these “marginally attached workers” and people “employed part time for economic reasons” (rather than by choice). If you add all of those people in, the total unemployment rate in the U.S. is 17.2 percent, compared to 12.6 percent a year ago. The only good news is that number is down from 17.5 percent in October." - Fulaan from Bookmarklet

"To explain all of this (and I guess to remind people why it’s important to budget in these trying times), the folks at Mint prepared the video below. Despite its attempt to be lighthearted, it’s probably the most depressing cartoon you’ll see all month." - Fulaan

Youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Fulaan

"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." - Fulaan from Bookmarklet

For the record, I've been doing #hashanchors since April, not that FF Powers That Be expressed any interest in alleviating extracting of them: http://friendfeed.com/search... - ianf ⌘

"We're trying to build a list of American startups where at least one founder was a foreign-born immigrant or visitor on a non-immigrant visa when the company started." - Fulaan

go back far enough and everyone here is from somewhere else. - Joe Silence is not dead

"There’s an interesting article in the current New York Review of books (predictably, a book review) detailing the history of the National Security Agency, that shadowy power-behind-the-power to which we surrender much of our privacy. That in itself is interesting, but I found the introduction a bit shocking: the NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. And what is a yottabyte? I’m glad you asked." - Fulaan from Bookmarklet

yep, it is one of my interests, each day i'm becoming more concerned about all this! In the EU we got two new projects Indect and Adabts, which some are saying, that will be the eyes and ears of the future european CIA, the SitCen. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... and http://www.openeurope.org.uk/media-c... - ovigia

"Editor’s note: Below is an open letter to our President from guest author Edo Segal, a concerned web geek who cares about the future of our democracy. It is followed by a proposal and a new website for anyone who thinks they know what #obamashould do (cynics please skip post)." - Fulaan from Bookmarklet

yup, inappropriate. - winckel

They should improve their existing services first. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I guess it's the Palm Pre? - Khaled A

Six Apart recently added some Posterous-style microblogging flavor and real-time blogging capabilities to TypePad, but is now switching to full throttle with the launch of TypePad Motion. The new service is the inaugural open source app built by Six Apart developers for the new TypePad platform and incorporates many of the features of the late Pownce. It’s also reminiscent of Jaiku, Tumblr and the recently introduced Yahoo Meme service. - Jannifer @wordsforliving from Bookmarklet

sorry moves not movies :( typo - Gaith

Gaith, please check if a story has already been posted into the rooms before you do. I've had to delete a number of your posts because they'd already been posted in there. Cheers - Zee.

@louCypher thanks note taken :) - Gaith

I like the article, especially as so much of what is reported is western centric. I also like the idea of a site that's called 'Arab Crunch'! - all about everyone

can you share more about jordanian startups? curious to know who they are? - Ouriel Ohayon

well at http://arabcrunch i report about Jordanian and Arab startups also Arabs in the west, or western startups in the Arabworld and thanx all about every one :) - Gaith

Craigslist? That is a marketplace and it is as local as you need it to be. - Vincent E. Epps

Nobody is talking about replacing Craigslist or ebay.there are so many sellers from Craigslist and ebay promoting their products to people on facebook,twitter and other social networks. i mean they're not doing it just for fun ! and there are so many people they'd rather buy or sell somthing from or via someone they know. and no there s no need for new definition of 'local' i think Socializing a local marketplace (social marketplace) would be a better solution for both buyers and sellers - Naser ziab

"If you receive a Facebook mail today with the subject line “CoooL Video”, don’t click the link. We’re getting reports of a Facebook scam which causes infected users to unknowingly send out Facebook mails to their friends containing that subject line. The links in the mails go to various places, including a blogspot blog (see screenshot below). Of course, clicking the link earns you an unpleasant dose of malware. Facebook, to give credit where due, is becoming increasingly proficient at stomping out such scams: the last one to cause issues was around two months ago." - Susan Beebe from Bookmarklet

A wise netizen is ALWAYS on the lookout for such things. It was I who leaped across the office screaming "don't open that unsolicited attachment" the evening before the great "I love you" virus attack. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

Good counterpoint to the "smartphones will take over teh world!" meme. - Ian Betteridge

ya most people in the world are poor and do not have enough money, but i believe over time smart phones will be as cheap as dump ones - Gaith

Spam ? - Jacque

?? ne gerek var?? - Burcak Erbatuk