• Michael Arrington

    Kind-of-liveblogging a kind-of-speech: Taunting Michael Arrington at the Future of Web Apps Summit until we get bored

    Are you at the exciting Future of Web Apps Summit? Oh, you have work to do instead? Well the founder of community site Metafilter is there, and he's heckling over IM:

    Matt Haughey: hey are you at the future of web apps thing?
    Valleywag: nope
    Wag: i could drop by
    Matt: I can't believe you didn't come here to heckle [TechCrunch blogger and startup slut Michael] arrington's talk
    Wag: ugh
    Matt: I know, it's shooting fish in a barrel
    Matt: you should let me do OMG LIVE BLOGGING!!!1!!!

    So I did. The poorly formatted results are below. OMG REFRSH 4 UPDTATESS

    Matt: be sure and drink every time you hear "zoomr is going to kill flickr"
    Matt: and "[Mike's startup] edgio is the greatest"
    Matt: he's going to announce a new techfoo blog at the end
    Matt: he loves digg
    Matt: he also loves facebook, youtube, photobucket, zoho, stumbleupon, popsugar, plentyoffish, and netvibes
    Wag: slut
    Matt: these are compnies to watch and should get bought
    Matt: his talk is like "here's what worked and here's what might work next"
    Matt: so he's in the review phase
    Wag: how does he define "work"
    Wag: does plentyoffish really work?
    Wag: i don't even know what popsugar is
    Matt: he's a rich lawyer
    Matt: money is all that matters

    UPDATE 1:

    Matt: he said it's a celeb gossip blog
    Matt: started a year ago
    Matt: 5 people
    Matt: 13 million pages a month
    Matt: he says it'll be the techcrunch of gossip blogs I guess
    Wag: um
    Wag: techcrunch says it [TechCrunch] gets a million pages a month
    Wag: i don't see stats here but did he really say popsugar gets 13M a month?
    Matt: awesome
    Matt: the What were they thinking? slide
    Wag: pics or it's not real
    Matt: inform.com, gather, pubsub, browzar, jigsaw, and squidoo
    Matt: squidoo is so fucking lame
    Matt: he just said it
    Wag: i liked pubsub, what happened to them?
    Wag: man give up on jigsaw nobody cares
    Matt: I think the board imploded at pubsub
    Matt: the two founders got in a fight
    Wag: is he going over each one?
    Matt: yeah
    Wag: not that i should talk, but when pubsub happened was arrington even around?
    Matt: browzar is malware
    Matt: squidoo!
    Matt: I wonder if I can stream audio to you
    Wag: please don't
    Matt: heh

    LATER:

    Wag: anything new?
    Matt: he has tips on how to win
    Matt: don't take funding, make sure you get along iwth founders, etc
    Wag: how much funding did edgeio take
    Wag: you know why techcrunch didn't take funding
    Matt: I dunno
    Wag: they got turned down
    Wag: by venture capitalists

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