AOL Acquires Huffington Post

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*

^

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/09/15/arrington-talks-new-blog-and-how-he-almost-stayed-at-aol/

pls don't spare us w/ the updates on this fascinating story im on the edge of my seat here

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/last-post/

carr:

What I knew last week, but can only write now, is that while Heather, Mike and other senior editorial staffers were making a stand for the site’s editorial independence from The Huffington Post, Erick cut a side deal with Huffington to guarantee him the top job once Mike was gone.

yeah that post really just concretized my h8

ugh thank god

also wow @ schonfeld

http://twitter.com/#!/erickschonfeld/status/114839470183944193

http://twitter.com/#!/myspacetom/status/114829734516498433
http://twitter.com/#!/myspacetom/status/114830230518112257

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/16/back-to-our-regularly-scheduled-program-posterous-raises-5-million/

Um, oh hey guys, what’s up? Nothing much over on my side, except that I’d really like a Diet Coke. Also, I’m hearing that nascent photo sharing app née blogging platform Posterous is raising some money. So yeah that’s what’s up over here in my neck of TC HQ.

Chew on this if you’re in the mood for some actual tech news; the simple blogging service and Tumblr competitor has just raised $5 million in Series B according to multiple sources. Taking part in the round will be Redpoint Ventures, newcomer Jafco Ventures and existing angels.

oh man

meanwhile

http://twitter.com/#!/paulcarr/status/114840198164123648
http://twitter.com/#!/paulcarr/status/114840556500299776

the film of this would made by aaron spelling rather than aaron sorkin

XD

http://twitter.com/#!/alexia/status/114832530674421760

re diet coke

hmm