Another Hype Cycle
I have to recommend Geek and Poke:
I have to recommend Geek and Poke:
Dead 2.0 is a funny tech blog. The author posts anonymously under the name ‘Skeptic’, and enjoys deflating the hype around Web 2.0 startups with posts like ‘Funding the Web 2.0 gravy train‘ and ‘Secret to why you should invest in Dogster revealed…‘. One of his main targets has been Michael Arrington’s Techcrunch, the most prominent news source about these startups.
Now Nik Cubrilovic has discovered Skeptic’s identity, and so has Arrington. Apparently, he’s a VP at a prominent tech company that’s raised some serious funding.
Arrington’s understandably not happy about the Dead 2.0 ‘attack blog’, as he calls it. He writes, regarding the consequences of Skeptic’s possible unveiling: