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- sintaks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There's no such thing as bad publicity, and there's no better thing than honest criticism, especially from the people throwing money at your product. The fact that this story made the front page will do wonders for the new service's traffic.
The method is unorthodox, but smart. - sorrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Two things came to mind: Maybe he is thrashing it for the sake of publicity. Looks like that has been discussed already.
Second thing: I looked at the site in question, and from what i saw in my 2 minutes of glancing around... it probably deserves all of (if not more) trashing that he gives it. - b0wl0fud0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7This is a pretty harsh assessment, but this IS a beta version after all. As for his complaints about RSS feeds and commenting, these seem to be relatively trivial features to implement, I doubt that Daylife isn't planning on pursuing them.
- voltree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The story is spam. The idea of an investor criticising his own product just attracts attention. The article itself is mostly flattery - the only criticism is one which has undoubtedly already been levied by genuinely indemendent commentors and to which he has no counterargument.
- eNthem, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I respect Michael Arrington and give him props for having the balls to trash the company he invested in. Not a lot of people will do that and he is one of them. He gives credit where it's due and bashing where it's deserved.
On the other hand this can be a blessing in disguise for Daylife, because if they are smart enough they will add the lacking features and improve their service, which then will get covered by TechCrunch again (from what I observed, Mike always does follow-up posts on companies that bettered their service and offering if he previously wrote a somewhat negative post) and which in turn will show all the TC readers that this company is open to constructive criticism, is willing to listen and a have a lot of other positive effects in general.
Each and every company goes thru trials and errors and only those succeed that are willing to take criticism, adjust accordingly and make their service the best possible.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they can definitely turn this negative into a positive. It's their game to lose. - b0wl0fud0n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here's another perspective from Jeff Jarvis: http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2007/01/04/daylife-dawns/
- changcommaalex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's an interesting way to look at the news. Check out the topic pages on the site. The site makes it really clear how people, places and organizations are related to each other which is rare on a lot of other sites. I really wish there was more of a community feel to the site though.
- allen074, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Here is my comparison of Arrington vs. Steve Rubel:
http://www.centernetworks.com/daylife-launches-arrington-rubel-disagree-on-its-worth
One loves it, one hates it. Interesting summary from both. - praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -0/+3Yeah...I think the design can use a rethinking. Though, I like the side bar that shows people, organizations, and places.
- dubled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The article summary is: This site sucks but please come and check it out anyway.
- mb309, on 12/31/2008, -0/+1Seeing as he invested in the startup, wouldnt you have an overall idea of what the site was going to offer before launching other than thrashing it the minute it launched?
- elgecko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Another example on how to drive attention to something you invested in, when you can not announce it as amazing.
- Peynis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that logo looks like a cross between the XBox360 and Ubisoft logo...
- lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1guess what. even if it had RSS feeds its still noise... like most of the other sites TC covers.
- coolian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Good call by Arrington. Daylife is a little too late to enter that massively saturated market.
- elgecko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I don't know what you would do, but personally If i had invested in a company, i probably first would talk with them before trashing it on a high traffic blog.
Or at least i d ask them why no rss feeds, whereas adding rss feeds to any website is 1/the standard , 2/quite an easy programmer task ? And then explain it on my article.
Something remains unclear.
At least this behavior has gathered a lot of attention now a lot of people seem to think that "Mike has balls" to trash something he has invested in.
Mike has balls ? Probably, but Mike is much likely to have communication skills. - extracrunchy23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0yes one more positive article about a company close to techcrunch (jeff clavier's companies, edgeio, companys in which Mike has invested) would have been too much. This small criticizing thing is very smart. Web 2.0 is already on a downward trend: http://www.trendio.com/word.php?wordid=2296&language=en The question is will Mike survive the bubble or will he be the new Kajsa (founder of boo.com)? :)
- rbubbles, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Another example of Arrington getting caught up in the whirlwind of yesterday's buzz. RSS? Please! Don't recall Google or Yahoo being built on the back of RSS. Anyone? MSN perhaps? Nah. Good thing he is sitting on the sidelines pontificating as an out of work attorney instead of trying to build game-changing companies with a mission to improve on the status quo. But I guess that's what entrepreneurs are for.....and, from what I hear, he isn't a very good one. Pool.com, anyone? - BUST!
- grammar666nazi, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2digg this up if you hate Bush
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