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4 months ago
in 和TechCrunch英国主编闲聊英国互联网 on 动点博客
Thanks for the interview! You can find me on Twitter at @mikebutcher
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Gang Lu
aha, so you read Chinese, Mike!!! ;-)
5 months ago
in The Forbes Intern is not wrong about twitter in Europe on Richard's Blog
Cute but you didn't address the point in the post about SMS. Twitter is now 3 years old. Go ask a US company if they were using SMS for customer service 3 years ago. I bet a lot of them weren't because SMS was slow to take of in the US. Now many use Twitter for cust. serv. So they are a little ahead of EU firms? Who used SMS first? The Europeans did. Answer that one.
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warzabidul
I've written many times about how stupid it was for twitter to cut the sms service in Europe. It discouraged me from using the service. I also commented on how they should have made a better mobile version of their website for non iphone users.
I also wrote and commented about Jaiku and what it promised but that failed to get enough users to be a serious contender.
I see quite a few Europeans playing with plurk at the moment. Europe is a fragmented market with many languages and many interesting services as you point out in your post.
If Facebook is anything to go by then we may have to wait at least another year or two before twitter becomes anything more than a play toy for people like you and those those that we converse with on a regular basis.
I also wrote and commented about Jaiku and what it promised but that failed to get enough users to be a serious contender.
I see quite a few Europeans playing with plurk at the moment. Europe is a fragmented market with many languages and many interesting services as you point out in your post.
If Facebook is anything to go by then we may have to wait at least another year or two before twitter becomes anything more than a play toy for people like you and those those that we converse with on a regular basis.
9 months ago
in Leave Wall Street, Join A Startup on Max Niederhofer | Venture Capital
There's also http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/leave-canar...
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maxniederhofer
Yey! Well done!
9 months ago
in Seedcamp, ‘08: In a pack of copycats, two start-ups shine on VentureBeat
This is a well-written post which works in parts but suffers from the usual blogger blind-spot of not actually being at the event you're writing about...
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Dan Kaplan
Indeed, I must work with what I have.
10 months ago
in Mike’s doing a wicked job with TechCrunk UK on Mobile Industry Review
Thanks Ewan your shout out means a lot.
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James Whatley
Completely agree with Ewan. Good job and well-deserved.
Ewan
Most welcome -- you've rejuvenated the site brilliantly!
10 months ago
in Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already? on VentureBeat
If "the future of Twitter is mobile" why kill of the most wide-spread mobile service there is on the planet? Duh.
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MG Siegler
Because SMS is ridiculously cost prohibitive, as Twitter is now finding out. SMS won't die off anytime soon, but I do think we will see a move to unlimited plans bundled the everything else, and eventually it will all come under data. If that doesn't happen one of the other messaging platforms will kill it.
I understand that all-inclusive data plans are ubiquitous yet, especially in Europe, but they will be at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Just because something is widespread now doesn't mean it will be in 10 years at the rate technology, especially mobile technology is expanding. 10 years ago everyone I know didn't have a cellphone, they had a pager.
I understand that all-inclusive data plans are ubiquitous yet, especially in Europe, but they will be at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Just because something is widespread now doesn't mean it will be in 10 years at the rate technology, especially mobile technology is expanding. 10 years ago everyone I know didn't have a cellphone, they had a pager.
11 months ago
in Vegas or Bust! on Steve Purkiss
Someone going to some trade show to pimp a site does not a news story make. I gather that sort of thing happens all the time. This post is really going to get me to write about it all. Oh yes.
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stevepurkiss
Hi Mike,
Thanks for clarifying the story from your point of view - I didn't write the blog post to get you to write about it - I did the email for that and you didn't want to so I simply did my own and through the power of my network the story will get out anyway.
Steve
Thanks for clarifying the story from your point of view - I didn't write the blog post to get you to write about it - I did the email for that and you didn't want to so I simply did my own and through the power of my network the story will get out anyway.
Steve
