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| Apr 6, 2012 | Kickstarter: Help Fund A Film On The Story Of Social Media | SoMe is a film about the rise (and fall?) of social media. Produced by web rabble-rouser and satirist, Loren Feldman, the film will feature Feldman’s signature puppet act (it will be cool, I promise) and interviews with and segments about w... |
| Sep 19, 2009 | WITTC50?: Will there be a TechCrunch50 next year? What Jason wants, Jason Getz | So here we go then, the fourth and final part of my award-winning TechCrunch50 coverage; the all-important ’round-up’. This is where I ask appropriately round-uppy questions like “what did we learn this week?” “what were the highlights of t... |
| Sep 19, 2009 | Week in review: HP’s DreamScreen computer, Facebook’s cashflow, and more | Here’s our rundown of the last week in tech and business news. First up, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days. There was lots of coverage of the TechCrunch50 startup conference, but ultimately HP’s new ... |
| Sep 16, 2009 | TC50: TechCrunch50 founders’ feud: “It’s over” for the startup conference | Updated
“I can tell you that this is the last TechCrunch50,” event co-founder Jason Calacanis told humorist Loren Feldman last night in a video interview after the close of the third annual TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The even... |
| Jun 7, 2009 | Paid Twitter Streams Are Here: Super Chirp | A new service from 83 Degrees called Super Chirp launches this evening that lets Twitter users get paid for their content stream.
This is a theme we’ve touched on in the past. There is a huge market for celebrity fan pages that Super Chirp ... |
| Apr 29, 2009 | Wall Street 2.0: The Twitter Script | Not much is known about the the upcoming movie of Wall Street 2 other than it will once again team up actor Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko and director Oliver Stone. When 1938 Media’s Loren Feldman heard the news this morning, he decided t... |
| Mar 25, 2009 | Now that China Is the New Israel…What's Israel? | Tel Aviv, Israel—When I moved to Silicon Valley in early 2000, I quickly became fascinated with Israel. A very tight relationship had formed between the holy-land-for-all-things-tech and the actual Holy Land, bolstered by the success of peo... |
| Mar 10, 2009 | Hendrickson! We're Gonna Miss You. | When you are introduced to new Web products and businesses every day, as we are here at TechCrunch, it is difficult not to get the startup itch. Mark Hendrickson, who has been with TechCrunch as a writer and Web developer for nearly two yea... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Facebook wins Crunchies 2008 'Best Overall' | Amid downturn, entrepreneurs recognized, and gathering sparks laughter
At the 2008 Crunchies award ceremony, held at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco Friday evening, Facebook won the "Best Overall" award. The Crunchies, hosted ... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | Winners of the 2008 Crunchies | Here are the winners of this year’s Crunchies, which honor the best tech companies from 2008. More than 170,000 people voted to select the nominees, and more than 350,000 people voted to select the winners. The awards were sponsored by Tech... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Never Mind That $1.7 Billion Loss, Jonathan Schwartz Has A New Plan To Save Sun | Never mind that Sun Microsystems just announced a $1.7 billion loss for its most recent quarter (mostly due to write downs of pricey acquisitions like the $4.1 billion it spent on StorageTek). Never mind that its market cap is only $4 billi... |
| Oct 12, 2008 | Android's Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure? | I’ve been hearing a lot about Google’s innovative login feature for the Android phone, but only saw it today for the first time (Loren Feldman, who recently did some video of one, sent a screenshot).
Unlike other phones, which require a fou... |
| Oct 10, 2008 | As Rome Burned, Team Cyprus Danced | Yes, the meme is just getting started it seems. 1938Media does his own take of the Team Cyprus video, set to the tune of AC/DC’s HighWay To Hell: |
| Sep 12, 2008 | TC50 (Demo Pit): Ultimate Football Network Will Help You Manage Your Fantasy Football Leagues | The Ultimate Football Network tries to harness the popularity of fantasy football and turn it into a worthwhile business. The only problem is that the company isn’t quite prepared to do that —yet. But it has a gameplan.
As football season k... |
| Sep 9, 2008 | The Real Reason For TC50: Web Celeb Cage Fighting | Loren Feldman v. Loic Le Meur. FIGHT!
Introducing Robert Scoble as Don King. |
| Aug 28, 2008 | Mark Cuban 1, Loren Feldman 0 | Yesterday we announced that Jason Calacanis would be interviewing serial entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban at TechCrunch50. The comments were mixed, and Cuban was clearly reading. And in one case, responding. W... |
| Jul 9, 2008 | Verizon Wireless drops content provider over racism charges | A threatened boycott against Verizon Wireless has been canceled, after the wireless provider suspended a distribution deal with 1938 Media after complaints about an allegedly racially insensitive video.
Under the now defunct agreement, susp... |
| Jul 7, 2008 | 1938 Media Loses Verizon Deal Over Racism Charges | 1938 Media’s distribution deal with Verizon, announced just a week ago, is history.
Yesterday a group of “civil rights activists” protested the deal and threatened to boycott Verizon. The reason? A 2007 video that Feldman created called “Te... |
| Jun 30, 2008 | 1938 Media Inks Verizon Deal, CNET Gets Cold Feet | 1938 Media, the controversial (and hilarious) video blogging site founded by Loren Feldman, has been the center of attention over the last few days. Now big partners are starting to take notice, and Feldman is inking some interesting distri... |
| Jun 6, 2008 | Loren Feldman Did Not Buy Cnet | But Loren Feldman, of 1938 Media, (the guy who always seems to be at Michael’s house) is going to be producing a weekly video for Cnet. Dan Farber, the bravest man in newsdom, is also trusting him with a blog. Congratulations.
I hope it inv... |
| Jun 1, 2008 | Break In At TechCrunch HQ Yesterday | Fred Vogelstein decided to begin his article about me in Wired last year with the story about the Dutch entrepreneurs who broke into my house, with Starbucks, hoping to pitch me. Since then, at least once a month an entrepreneur shows up ho... |
| May 29, 2008 | 1938 Media Interview With Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister. Guest Appearance By Scoble At End | Fake Shel interviews Zivity Cofounder Cyan Banister and, as usual, there’s a surprise at the end (although regular TechCrunch readers may not be so surprised). I’ve managed to stop laughing long enough to get this post up.
Note: Not fully s... |
| May 22, 2008 | The Puppet Interviews Digg's Kevin Rose | It amazes me that people actually talk to Loren Feldman’s puppet and treat it like a real interview. Example above: this interview with Kevin Rose starts off innocently enough, but goes down hill from there. The only real news value in the ... |
| May 22, 2008 | Infectious To Bring Custom Car Art To The Masses | New startup Infectious wants to satisfy that urge that we all undoubtedly have to spice up our car a little. Make it unique. Express our personality. Etc. Founder Tim Roberts, who was part of the founding Twitter team, says that your car is... |
| May 15, 2008 | The Mike Arrington Show | Yeah that’s right. I have a puppet parody now, too. This is pretty tame stuff compared to the hit job Loren did on Shel israel. Before you hit play, note that there is some offensive language in the video, referring to our recent dispute wi... |
| Apr 8, 2008 | Puppet Parody Show Gets Sponsorship; Original FastCompany Show Doesn't | Loren Feldman’s puppet video show, which parodies a video interview show run by Shel Israel called Global Neighborhoods, has landed an official sponsor, Feldman says. Meanwhile, Global Neighborhoods itself remains sponsorless.
In the videos... |
| Apr 7, 2008 | A Case Study In Personal Brand Destruction | A minor blogosphere tussle has turned ugly. That’s nothing new; what’s surprising about this particular fight is that one of the participants, Shel Israel, is a well known author and consultant who makes a living advising others on how to a... |
| Mar 21, 2008 | Battle Of The Podcasting Geek Chicks | A long weekend usually means less news, but for those looking for a new and quite often attractive take on news, the ongoing battle for geek chick supremacy offers a bountiful choice.
Webb Alert
http://p.castfire.com/cHNHf/video/9013/webbal... |
| Feb 18, 2008 | When stuck in Barcelona, call. Don't Qik. It's quicker. | Meeting up in Barcelona during 3GSM can be tricky when you have to push through about 30,000 people. But CrunchGear, sister to TechCrunch, gamely held a meetup event (pictured) there last week. However, after realising he’d accidentally boo... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Seesmic, the Twitter of video, gradually opening for public use — unveils investors | Seesmic, yet another video-sharing site that encourages quick, conversational clips that can be recorded and replied to, is opening up for public use, with the waiting period for membership requests down to less than a day. It has also unve... |
| Jan 5, 2008 | Please Leave Scoble Alone | 1938media captures the spirit (video above) of a week where Robert Scoble took on Facebook and lost, caused a Plaxo Flub then got reinstated and sparked a new debate on data portability. You have to hand it to Robert, there’s rarely a dull ... |
| Dec 23, 2007 | Google Helps NORAD Track Santa | Russian ICBM’s aren’t the only thing the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) will be tracking this Christmas, and Google (which is everywhere, and knows everything) is giving them a hand.
The annual NORAD Tracks Santa page is b... |
| Dec 16, 2007 | Loren Feldman Trashes Seesmic; Founder Loic Le Meur Takes The Bait | People who don’t follow Loren Feldman are usually surprised when he takes aim at their startup and lets loose. He combines valid points with a highly confrontational approach (he once called me a “pompous elitist asshole” and I still consid... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | Technorati Loses A "Great Leader." PodTech Also Loses CEO | We’ve all known that blog search engine Technorati and videocasting site PodTech weren’t doing particularly well: that both companies were conducting CEO searches. But today the bloodletting became real.
PodTech CEO John Furrier is out. Jam... |
| Jul 27, 2007 | What's Really Going On With Podtech? | Update: See here.
There have been a number of reports that silicon valley based Podtech is literally falling apart. I spoke to Podtech CEO John Furrier and asked him how many of the rumors are true. While he certainly fed me a certain amoun... |
| CEO: If you take VC money, you’re a gambler, not an entrepreneur. Really? | Many “entrepreneurs” developing apps and websites don’t actually deserve the title of entrepreneur, says actor-turned-CEO Loren Feldman. Feldman, known for producing over-the-top, sometimes offensive videos for his company 1938 Media, propo... |
