AOL Acquires Huffington Post

lol

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/techcrunch-wall-street-journal_b_958559.html

http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/113339800295182336

here we go

max otm. carr worst person i have met.

ever.

Huffington's story appears to makes sense, and Arrington and his army are really coming off as sooks.

i'm still trying to figure out how the apparent conflict of interest didn't occur to anybody until after they announced crunchfund

like

who the fuck are you purported businesspeople

heh, im sure it occurred to "them"! they dont care; they just want crunchfunds money!

the conflict-of-interest thing was just arianna huffington seeing an opportunity to dump arrington

yeah probably

as gawkers ryan tate has documented, huffpo is rife w/ conflicts of interest http://gawker.com/5837690/

right but i'm saying it seems to me arrington & TC should have foreseen that the conflict would be poorly received publicly, and that if AOL was buying into such an obvious questionable scenario maybe they had diff motives than "putting money in mike arrington's pocket"

wld really like to have been a fly on proverbial wall.

xp that links to this http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-says-reporters-are-not-allowed-to-invest-in-companies-they-cover-except-michael-arrington-2011-4

It's always tricky to get an unbiased picture when press agencies' fallings-out are covered by other press agencies.

like is arrington just a bigger and more egotistical fool than i realized or

i wouldve really liked for there to be a bomb on the wall that killed all of these people

"NO ONE WILL CARE, FOR I AM ARRINGTON, OF THE INTERNET"

Most annoying thing is that people like Siegler are trying to drag the readers into it.

most annoying thing is everything

hoos the thing is itd never really been a problem for arrington before? and my guess is, if arianna hadnt released that initial statement (w/o arringtons knowledge), it wouldnt really have been an issue. tech journalism!

ice cram otm

oh man. that arrington guy. hate him so much. what an asshole. can't believe he did that awful thing.

"The fact is, 60% of your data is duplicate. If you have an MP3 file, someone else probably has the same one, for example. Each person only tends to have around 25 GB of unique, personal data, he says. Using patented de-duplication algorithms, compression techniques and encryption, Bitcasa keeps costs down (way, way down, but that’s it’s secret sauce), which is what makes it so affordable. Bitcasa also explained that a freemium model is on its way with less-than-unlimited storage for free."

uh

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/with-bitcasa-the-entire-cloud-is-your-hard-drive-for-only-10-per-month/

And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?And the pricing! How on earth is it so cheap?

at the v bottom of that long ass post, btw is

Disclosure: Crunchfund is an investor in Bitcasa

unbelievable. the stones on these guys. god.

is this fun for you or

Disclosure: CrunchFund is an investor in Bitcasa.

No shit. I never would've guessed reading the article.

Interesting principle though.

xxp's :-)

well i was UHing that they expect the copyright police not to come running after their deduplication process

and then yeah obv the tone b/w the disclosure is p lol

If Huffington was indeed looking for a reason to upend TechCrunch they certainly gave her one.

hott

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/13/team-arrington/

After all the incredibly zealous LOOK AT OUR NEW LOGO LOOOOOK shtick a few weeks ago I didn't think the navel-gazing could possibly get any worse.

first comment: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/the-2011-disrupt-sf-battlefield-final-round-companies/

ariel arrffington

AMC should make a show about this.

do blog comments look good on a television screen

Arrington quits/leaves/"decides" from AOL, starts a crunch lab

smash cut to arrington slouched in an empty room eating http://stores.intuitwebsites.com/hstrial-JMartAsianFoo/catalog/nestle%20crunch.jpg

surrounded by empty wrappers watching qvc and occasionally mumbling 'oh, thats disruptive' at the tv

http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/and-the-winner-of-techcrunch-disrupt-is-shaker/

Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to seven finalists, which included Bitcasa, Cake Health, Farmigo, Prism Skylabs, Shaker, TalkTo, and Trello. The winner from this group receives the Disrupt Cup and $50,000, taking over possession from Disrupt New York winner Getaround. Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. And the winner is…Shaker! Disclosure: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington is an investor in Prism Skylabs and is a pending investor in Shaker.

lol

lord

http://twitter.com/#!/paulcarr

These blokes are acting like jilted lovers

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/barry-diller-skewers-aol-for-firing-michael-arrington-from-techcrunch/

It’s not a journalistic enterprise, TechCrunch. And so to have treated it as such is to destroy it. So now, he’s gone, and now they own this thing, which has no voice. Congratulations. What a good piece of business.

http://twitter.com/#!/arrington/status/114224473804242946

If these guys keep up the whinging they're going to lose whatever support they've still got. I won't be following Arrington to his new personal blog because I'm sick of his henchmen shitting up the internet with this crap.

GO ARIANNA is where I'm probably going with this

http://twitter.com/#!/parislemon/status/114426586735976448

*single tear slides down cheek*

^