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Blognation May Rise From The Ashes

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:30:05 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
When Oliver Starr (former MobileCrunch writer) attacked employer Sam Sethi (former TechCrunch UK writer), the person who currently controls Blognation, in a 3,000 word diatribe, a lot of people came to the conclusion that Blognation was dead in the water.
The chain of screw ups was just too long. Sethi had an emotional explosion and […]

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Arrington launches my kinda blog battle [Nerdfight]

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:32:47 +0000

Source:Valleywag

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington notes the launch of European blog netowrk MyKinda with a swipe at MyKinda’s competitor BlogNation. He published emails sent by BlogNation founder Sam Sethi, a former TechCrunch writer, to Blognation’s employees and potential venture capitalists. Why? Well, there’s bad blood here. And we’re not talking about Sethi’s feud with Arrington, either.

BlogNation was originally a partnership between Sethi and MyKinda founder Lee Wilkins, a Brit living in Romania. The Sethi-Wilkins partnership went sour, with threats flying back and forth, and Sethi took control of the BlogNation brand. Arrington naturally saw this as an opportune moment to strike back at Sethi for launching a competing blog network after he was fired from TechCrunch UK.

In this three-way blogfight, Arrington’s motives are transparent. But what I can’t figure out is what Sethi and Wilkins are thinking. One, in launching their blog networks in Europe. And two, getting so emotional about it. This is the land of socialized medicine and siestas, people. Their most successful startups are obvious Facebook clones or $900 million writeoffs. If you’re going to fight, why not make it over something worthwhile? Oh right — this is Europe.

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MyKinda, Blog Network For Eastern Europe, Launches Amid Serious Drama

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:30:08 +0000

Source:Techcrunch
Google just officially announced the Open Handset Alliance to create an open platform (to be called Android) for a Linux phone that can run mobile Google apps and others. The 34 partners include T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, NTT Docomo, China Mobile, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Motorola, Samsung, HTC, Qualcomm, and Intel. Here is the press […]Source:Techcrunch
Lee Wilkins, a British entrepreneur living in Romania, soft launched a new eastern-European blog network this morning called MyKinda.
The network currently has blogs in just Romania, Bulgaria and Russia, but Wilkins says he’ll be launching in ten more eastern European countries soon, and eventually will cover the whole region. Each country will have six […]

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