DISQUS

Mathew, that completely untrue. Mike has been caught too many times trying to conceal his conflicts of interest.
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/techcrunch/disclo...

What new? How is this different than TechCrunch? Mike brags that conflict of interest is what makes TechCrunch great. You link to him all the time? How come you aren't asking Mike to leave TechCrunch?

I think we're all biased, but I could be wrong. NOT!

Eric, I could substitute laundry with divorce.

The fact that no venture money was involved, made the transaction a lot easier. $10M is a drop in the bucket for Yahoo! They bought hits that are growing. And the founders got a quick penny. Sounds like a win-win.

It's particularly funny hearing Mike talk about agendas and conflict of interests, while he brags that TechCrunch is all about conflict of interests.

I tried the Microsoft promotion and got error after error and gave up.

Mathew, I think the point is that LinkedIn is NOT MySpace for grown ups. They aren't trying to do the same things that Facebook or Flickr are doing. LinkedIn is solely about professional connections and nothing more. If they added the missing elements you want, then they lose their niche.

Swarmcast was open source and not proprietary. Swarmcast was not developed in Toronto, but was purchased by Opencola, which never did anything significant with it other than sink it. I believe you are also wrong about Justin re-purchasing the IP.