There is one good thing to come out of the Crunchpad
The one good thing to come out of the Crunchpad was to ignite a market that had lain dormant for the last couple of years. That is the idea of a slate computer, and looking at what is happening all over the news about CES, manufacturers are foaming at the mouth to get their pretty [...]
Summer Fun – Rant Redux #1
It seems only fair that while I’m off enjoying a (Southern Hemisphere) summer road trip, I should continue to provide my readers with some thoughts. I figured seeing I’ll be a million miles from anywhere, and unable to access decent connectivity, that a series of my ranty-est posts, with some new rants thrown in for [...]
Crunchpad Make Over – How Appropriate: JooJoo equals Bad Karma
The Crunchpad under an alternative alias/name from Fusion Garage made its debut this morning, under the appropriately named JooJoo. JooJoo in the urban dictionary means “bad karma” or bad luck. Being part of the Monday Morning Drama – Fusion Garage CEO Chandrasekar Rathakrishnan showed off the new JooJoo system that is the Crunchpad as originally [...]
The Rise and Fall of Blognation: Follow up
It’s an interesting day in the ongoing saga of Blognation, Sam Sethi and Michael Arrington. While I have written about this in the past, there is one final chapter in this story, and that is the default judgment in a UK court against Michael Arrington. I will have to add this to the story of [...]
Another Discussion on Transparency
Over the weekend all hell broke loose when uber blogger Michael Arrington made some comments to Leo Laporte about the need for full disclosure (details here and video below). Firstly I have to say that I’m disgusted beyond words by the reaction from across the blogosphere to this incident – the fact that Arrington has [...]
No Hope for Traditional Media Companies?
The Internet is a media platform based on content from traditional media companies (Times Magazine, etc.) as well as content produced by its users – blogs, forums and other social communication platforms. This vast new world of content is taking the lead from traditional media. Newspapers, Magazines and TV Channels are all loosing their audience [...]
It's About Respect – Keeping Embargoes
I’ll not join in the melee that surrounds Michael Arrington apart from saying that MA has built himself a pretty large cult of personality around TechCrunch. This sort of attention is always enjoyable when it’s going well, but can readily crumble when things turn sour (the Bernard Madoff saga – while in a different vein, [...]
