Death To The Embargo

Re:Death To The Embargo by polvi on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @03:32PM (#401404)

For me, this is another reason why I feel like TC is dying. Posts seem to be getting more and more negative (lay-offs, this, etc), less about start-ups, and simply turning into a personal rant platform. Not sure if this is the reason, but something is causing traffic to slip over the past few months.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com/?metric=uv

Anyway, if I were to launch something, I would not prefer to have my product story nestled between a piece about Yahoo layoffs, and a rant about PR (sorry AllFacebook, in this case).

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Re:Death To The Embargo by EastSmith on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @03:45PM (#401423)

This is blog trend, not TC thing. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/techcrunch.com+readwriteweb...

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Re:Death To The Embargo by andr on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @04:14PM (#401451)

Startups are just getting less interesting. Blogs in general would not be down, as they are a cheaper form of entertainment, which should be on the rise in a bad economy.

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Re:Death To The Embargo by vaksel on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @10:55PM (#401775)

everything interesting has been done to death. Now the only innovation(and I don't mean ____ + ____ mashup) will come from companies with a ton of money to spend on research.

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Re:Death To The Embargo by harpastum on Thursday December 18, 2008 @02:15AM (#401907)

pretty much a spin on "Everything that can be invented has been invented."

I don't believe it for a second. There will always be room for some kids in a garage to make a game-changing company.

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Re:Death To The Embargo by vaksel on Thursday December 18, 2008 @11:06AM (#402213)

everything that can be invented in the garage has been invented, now its getting to the point where any real technology needs a ton of R&D just to move forward

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Re:Death To The Embargo by jwesley on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @07:44PM (#401651)

All the big tech blogs now suck. Except for Uncov.com, which rocks, and they aren't big. Actually I like Valleywag too, just because they're the only ones not circle jerking with the others.

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Re:Death To The Embargo by andr on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @03:35PM (#401407)

I wouldn't say TC is dying. It's blogs like it that are replacing dying newspapers.

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Re:Death To The Embargo by polvi on Wednesday December 17, 2008 @03:40PM (#401412)

True, newspapers are having a hard time. However, I would still rather give my "exclusive" to the new york times.

I guess I'm just trying to say that TC is doing something wrong, and hypothesizing it is articles like this. If I was TC and saw this graph, I would be worried!

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mashable.com+techcrunch.com...

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