Lets set up a New TechCrunchUK thingy - now!

Thursday, December 14. 2006

Lets set up a New TechCrunchUK thingy - now!

The LeWeb3 / Sam Sethi / TechCrunch / TechCrunchUK thing will run and run, in a way I feel sorry for all the parties involved, I'm sure none intended this furore.

However, the biggest casualty out of this is the blossoming UK "New Internet" scene, and for that I am a bit grumpy - TechCrunch UK provided one of the the main central blogsites for it to occur, and we now have nothing to fill the gap. As I blogged earlier in The Networks of Social Networkers, it is crucial that a set of main nodes exist to network around.

For this reason we need to create a new one - pronto, before all the energy withers away.

ADDENDUM TO POST ON 20/12/2006 - Sam Sethi and Mike Butcher have set up on their own over here at Vecosys . Thus I think the stuff below is fairly moot now, though a p*ss up is always a good idea.

As I was involved (albeit only as a contributor) at TCUK, I am happy to offer up this blog as an organising point until everyone finds their feet and a proper site is set up.

I also suggest the collective We (the London 'Net 2.0 scene) find a place early next week where we can meet to discuss what we want to do, celebrate the Christmas spirit(s) and have a wake for what TCUK could have been. Anyone who thinks that is a good idea add name to this blog and I will try and ping some of the other Web 2.0 Social Nets to see if we can sort out a place to meet up.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Odds and Sods at 13:29 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Good idea, i will wait the next Techcrunch.

#1 Pramit Singh (Homepage) on 2006-12-14 14:10 (Reply)

Count me in, always swayed by the mention of beer.

#2 Gary Reid (Homepage) on 2006-12-14 14:12 (Reply)

Great idea !

#3 Oron Adam (Homepage) on 2006-12-14 14:13 (Reply)

Good idea, you have all my support.

#4 Chris (Homepage) on 2006-12-14 14:30 (Reply)

Nice idea Alan. But as an actual paid co-Editor of TechCrunch UK who is now facing the loss of real income because of Arrington's action, could you please give me and Sam just 5 minutes longer (ok, maybe 5 hours) to try and do something about this before the opportunity to pay our mortgages and feed our families whithers away because someone else has decided they'd quite like to scramble over our dead bodies and capitalise on our success.

#5 Mike Butcher (Homepage) on 2006-12-15 09:13 (Reply)

Mike my mistake, I thought the idea of getting together was to create something for you and Sam to capitalise on so you could pay your mortgage, obviously that isn't something you need so you can count me out.

#6 Gary Reid (Homepage) on 2006-12-15 11:02 (Reply)

Gary and Alan. Apologies. We appreciate everyone's support. Totally. I got the wrong end of the stick. But unlike Le Merde, I am not going to ask for my comment to be removed! A party is a great idea. Watch Sam and my blog for news soon. Thanks again. Seriously.

#6.1 Mike Butcher (Homepage) on 2006-12-15 18:38 (Reply)

Mike, no worries - likewise apologies if I caused you any inconvenience. Go well.

#6.1.1 Alan Patrick (Homepage) on 2006-12-15 20:01 (Reply)

Mike, the last thing I had in mind was to trample over you guys! It seemed that as y'all were locked out of TC and so on yesterday, you were welcome to use this space to rally and then move on. That offer was made genuinely and I thought I made it clear that this was temporary until you guys could get set up again.

Clearly the blogosphere is very prone to ease of misunderstandings!

I will exit now as gracefully as I can.

I do think a party is a good idea though

#7 Alan Patrick (Homepage) on 2006-12-15 17:58 (Reply)

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