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It is ridiculous startups have to pay to pitch

I just read Jason Calacanis’ post about angel investors who are charging to have startups pitch them. That’s totally ridiculous. I NEVER charge for pitches and NEVER charge to interview startups or people for my video show or to get on building43. I don’t even ask if you are a R...

Digital iPhone cheapskates

So, I’m tracking the success of Tweetie 2.0, which was released yesterday (it is currently the number one highest grossing app on iPhone today in USA). I’ve been using it a week and it already has become my favorite Twitter app on the iPhone. I own (and paid for myself) all the major ...

iPhone app shootout Thursday

You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company:

OK, so when Twitter came out with its Suggested User List I went through a bunch of emotions. Hatred. Jealousy. Self loathing. Blaming. Anger. Denial. All that kind of stuff. I have lashed out at it over the last few months here and there. Pissing off Tim O’Reilly and Veronica Belmont and a...

PR people: 10 ways to screw up @techcrunch’s embargo policy

TechCrunch is famous for not accepting PR people’s embargoes. I’m always shocked that PR people care in any way about this, because there are so many ways to force TechCrunch (and anyone, really) to abide by embargoes. Here’s my favorite ways: 1. Copy Evan Williams (CEO/Co-found...

Antifeatures: big mistake that location app developers make

This week I got a press release from Gowalla. It went on and on about how much better its feature set was than Foursquare, a point of view backed up by one of my favorite tech writers, Zee, so I gave it a second chance. Why did they claim it was better? Because their app forces users to use the ...