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TechCrunch, Seesmic and the Conflict of Interests

Posted on 05 February 2008

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[Movement Against Silicon Valley's Conflicts of Interest, Episode 1]

It seems that the level of conflict of interests for some well known names in Silicon Valley is reaching its top.

Today, I came across this blog post (in italian) that points out a “ghost” blog post that appeared on TechCrunch and that suddenly disappeared.

In this post a TechCrunch writer, after having praised Seesmic, promoted an initiative, “Seesmic Sunday”, inviting readers to record a video in response to his own video (using Seesmic) and informing that the best 5 videos would have been posted on TechCrunch.

Here is the screenshot of the post:

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This post, which permalink is still available here, has been suddenly removed from TechCrunch. This is good, since the founder of TechCrunch has invested in Seesmic. What is not good is that a TechCrunch writer worked out an article like that. Are you asking me to believe that Seesmic neither Michael Arrington were aware of that?

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Ok, do you like the idea of “Seesmic Sunday”? With my company’s Hictu!, no conflict of interest, no one other than my company has invested in that service (yet), no problem! Why don’t you go on with your interesting initiative? “Hictu! Sunday” is ready to go… best 5 videos on TechCrunch? Cool! Let’s do that!

Ops, sorry, I think it can’t work with Hictu!, since no one in TechCrunch has personal interests (MONEY interests) in our service. Sorry, my mistake.

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Luca Filigheddu - who has written 1928 posts on LucaFiligheddu.com.

Luca is currently CEO at Abbeynet, a company specialized in VoIP and Web 2.0.

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