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		<title>Come To The TechCrunch 10-Year Birthday Meetup</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2015/05/27/come-to-the-techcrunch-10-year-birthday-meetup/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2015 21:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On Saturday June 6 we are celebrating the ten year birthday of TechCrunch. 1,500 people will gather from 12-3 p.m. at the Presidio in San Francisco. Like the meetups ten years ago at my house in Atherton, it will be a party, a bbq and a celebration of startups. I can’t wait to spend the days with new friends and old. Get one of the few remaining tickets here.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;The Burned-Out Blogger&#8217;s Guide To PR” Is Amazing, Hilarious And Mostly True</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/09/the-burned-out-bloggers-guide-to-pr/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than anything else, Jason Kincaid’s new book The Burned-Out Blogger&#8217;s Guide To PR is about the startup journey. It has something for everyone, and it’s smart. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny. The reason he wrote the book? We find out in the introduction: “Revenge.” “For four years as a writer at TechCrunch the PR industry [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>TechCrunch Disrupt SF Starts With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/02/techcrunch-disrupt-starts-with-uber-ceo-travis-kalanick/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch Disrupt, a thrice-yearly event where they drag me, the founder of TechCrunch, out like Lenin's embalmed body to show I'm still around, is but a week away.

And if anything will shock me back to life, it'll be Travis Kalanick, the controversial CEO of the controversial startup (if a company can still be called a startup after raising $1.5 billion in venture capital), Uber.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Getting Ready To Disrupt</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/25/getting-ready-to-disrupt/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow, it's been a while since I posted here on TechCrunch.

Some of you may remember me as the founder of this site. Later I was fired by Arianna Huffington after I started CrunchFund.

That sucked.

But I've managed to keep charming my way into the Disrupt conferences to do the odd interview.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Would Facebook Have Sold To Yahoo for $1.6 Billion? We&#8217;ll Never Know</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/13/would-facebook-have-sold-to-yahoo-for-1-6-billion-well-never-know/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel talks about Facebook rejecting a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006. He and Accel&#8217;s Jim Breyer were on the same page &#8211; &#8220;take the money and run.&#8221; But Zuckerberg said no. He &#8220;barely humored the idea of selling,&#8221; says Thiel. Which is about the same thing we heard back then: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>If You&#8217;re Worried About Likes, Avoid Posting To Facebook From Twitter</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/if-youre-worried-about-likes-avoid-posting-to-facebook-from-twitter/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Facebook is showing your content to far fewer people than they used to, says Nick Bilton at the NY Times, pointing out that while his subscribers have soared, the number of likes per post has declined rapidly. Josh Constine writes his thoughts here. Bilton&#8217;s theory is that Facebook wants to incentivize people to pay to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/03/there-was-that-whole-internet-thing-too/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 23:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Anyone wanting to see the whole &#8220;history is written by the victors&#8221; thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of everyone else since the late 90s. Wu, who&#8217;s confused about what open v. closed systems really mean (he uses a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jason Kincaid On The Mythology Of TechCrunch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: The interview between Hunter Walk and Jason Kincaid reprinted below originally appeared on LinkedIn. Follow Hunter on LinkedIn.  I was happily surprised to see Hunter Walk interview Jason Kincaid, one of the first TechCrunch employees. The interview is here and I&#8217;m reprinting it below. Jason joined TechCrunch when it was still being run [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>If America Was A Startup We&#8217;d All Quit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So I was chatting with my dad yesterday. We had a long drive home after the Department of Homeland Security seized and impounded my boat. The mood was somber. We were talking about how awful America has become. We are a nation that has been split into groups that absolutely hate each other. Debt is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Truth, Money, Right, Wrong</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/26/truth-money-right-wrong/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I wrote about the ongoing CNET editorial independence issue. I said that the editors and journalists at CNET were part of the problem, and suggested that they either publish their (assumed) dissent, or resign, or both. A conversation began in the comments of that post, with some people saying that it isn&#8217;t reasonable to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/we-are-supposed-to-be-truth-tellers/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation &#8211; they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET&#8217;s parent company, CBS. I wasn&#8217;t all that interested in the story at the time. Reporters and bloggers are constantly pressured to write or [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-help-119-days-ago/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/nik-cubrilovic">Nik Cubrilovic</a> points out that people were significantly <a target="_blank" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4529484">less enraged</a> by Aaron's legal troubles just a few months ago.
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		<title>Cue User Data Shows Email Problem Worsening</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/too-much-email-please-stop-now/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2008 I was griping about 2,433 unread emails in my inbox. Which is nothing. Today it&#8217;s up around 7,000, and I declared an email bankruptcy just a few months ago and started fresh. Cue, a handy mobile app for organizing and searching your online data across a variety of services, released some fascinating anonymized [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Income Rich Take One For The Team. Thanks!</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/01/the-income-rich-take-one-for-the-team-thanks/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love talking about taxes. Our President and both houses of Congress have finally all agreed on a deal on this whole fiscal cliff mess. I&#8217;ve been holding my breath on this because I thought for sure that I&#8217;d be paying a lot more in taxes this year. But I dodged the bullet. All venture [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m Bored. What&#8217;s Next?</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/30/im-bored-whats-next/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 06:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s just about 2013 and I gotta say, I’m a little bored.

At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softening of the market (periodic reports of <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/24/were-in-the-middle-of-a-terrible-blubble/">Blubbles</a> are great for that). And other sectors, like business to business, is still under capitalized v. the consumer sector.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I&#8217;m So Ashamed Of TechCrunch Today</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/21/im-so-ashamed-of-techcrunch-today/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 22:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[TechCrunch reader Kuan Yong sent me an email today showing me something that I thought I&#8217;d never see. I thought it must be some photoshopped joke. But I&#8217;ve confirmed it for myself. TechCrunch, it seems, has joined the Tapjoy app download circle jerk parade. Paying for app installs is just embarrassing. To do it to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ron Conway: The Painting</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/14/ron-conway-the-painting/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ron Conway, Silicon Valley&#8217;s best known angel investor, got quite a gift this evening. Laurene Jobs, the wife of the late Steve Jobs, dropped by the Conway annual holiday party this evening and unveiled what I can only describe as an epic painting of the man. It was hung on the wall, and just about [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who Is This? (Sprint + Google Voice Is Hopeless)</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/12/google-voice-sprint-iphone-hopeless/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 02:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can't say I didn't give it an honest try. It was <a target="_blank" href="http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/27/my-iphone-4s-with-google-voice-native-sitting-here-on-my-desk/">over a year ago now</a> that I tried switching from an Android phone to the iPhone. The main reason I had waited so long was my tether to Google Voice - I'm all in there after porting my phone number to them a few years ago. And Google Voice never worked natively on the iPhone.
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		<title>They Screwed Us. Right Before They Screwed Us Again. #poohead</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/06/they-screwed-us-right-before-they-screwed-us-again-poohead/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<a target="_blank" href="http://www.techmeme.com/121205/p22#a121205p22">We just got screwed</a>. More on this below.

Nobody says "<a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web 2.0</a>" anymore. The term just didn't stand the test of time, long ago it became clichéd. 

But a handful of years ago it had real meaning to a lot of us. It encompassed a lot of ideas, but chief among them was the notion of mashed up web services, all collaborating via APIs. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Drop Everything Immediately And Make Your Own Gangnam Style Video With JibJab</title>
		<link>https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/27/drop-everything-immediately-and-make-your-own-gangnam-style-video-with-jibjab/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Arrington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A TechCrunch <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/04/jibjab-re-creates-the-original-star-wars-trilogy-now-starring-your-friends/">tradition</a>: wasting time in the office by putting ourselves and coworkers into JibJab videos (and then posting them). They just released a Gangnam Style one, starring you as Psy. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jibjab.com/holidays/christmas/gangnam_style">Get to it</a>.]]></description>
		
		
		
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