robertp

Agreed. Before Automattic hired an in-house ui/ux person the admin interface was pretty rough and not pleasant to look at and reasonably okay to use. Moving forward from 3.0 the admin interface should still about the same with incremental refinements.

Turns out David was right, go to any open source focused conference and you will see everyone on an Apple computer.

Raising money is not doing a lot, creating usable products is. Why don't you explain exactly what makes your ecommerce offerings so different? Ecommerce is incredibly complex and getting more complex with new changing tax laws, shipping calculations, plus schema.org integrations for accommodating the massively wide type of products that are sold online.

This could be great for WPMU devs/admins that want to be able to have a lot of unique themes to offer their users.

Man wtf is this shit? Is this a Demand Media type of article?

There are maybe a dozen or so companies with really high valuations, there are then hundreds or low thousands of web based companies that are trying to be profitable and make it for themselves.

Look at the author of this article, he started an "intelligence platform". Wow, if you can't plug your company into something even intelligent techy people can understand, what about everyone else? Maybe he is in the bubble?

It is more than 15 minutes of fame because that blog post about a company will come up on google on the front page when someone searches for the company. Being on techcrunch can give you long tail traffic and a bump in being viewed as "established". The comments in the thread are making it read like getting on techcrunch isn't worth anything at all.

I setup a posterous years ago because it was the easiest way to share pics I took from my phone. It worked on my blackberry and android devices when the app markets were tiny. Now that wordpress has apps for all devices it is easy to share and post via the app if I want to put up a sunset picture and have it be tweeted out.

"Am I the only one who feels that TechCrunch is the startup world's Jersey Shore?" Yes there are some articles that don't involve actual reporting. The problem is that those articles get the most page views and people respond to them the most. Look at this post from today about a true entrepreneur that is doing real innovation in the e-commerce/fashion space. http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/12/after-ebay-acquisition-gsi-... The article has a meek 3 comments and low social stats.

This was even published before the TC drama that came out today.

Keep in mind everyone always talks about how TC doesn't cover start ups and only highlight the big players. If you actually look through the stats of what they post about, it isn't the case. It is just their cheezy/TMZ-ish articles get the most attention and stay in memory for longer.

It is the other way around. My friend has a wine store and he was an early adopter of groupon. I think he started almost 2 years ago? He stopped doing it because it brought in riff raff customers that were cheap and were pretty much broke.

I hope Southwest definitely upsets the dominance that the shitty airlines have on the east coast.

Can you send me an email? rob@3e-lab.com Im trying to build an instant search for a big online retailer.