TechCrunch Jumps the Shark on April Fool’s Posts

March 31, 2010 Duncan Davidson

They posted an exclusive exposé that Google was going nuclear. Right. So TechCrunch is trying to get their silly story out before GreenBeat does.

I would have rather seen them post tomorrow that ClimateGate has convinced Obama to abandon the upcoming EPA regs on carbon and really go whole hog on “drill, baby, drill!”

Then they could have scooped the indisputable leader in scooping stuff off the shoes of the blogosphere, Iowahawk.

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About Duncan Davidson 228 Articles

Affiliation: NetService Ventures

Duncan is an advisor to NetService Ventures, where he focuses on digital media and the mobile Internet.

Previously he was at four start-ups: Xumii, a mobile social service based on a Social Addressbook; SkyPilot Networks, the performance leader of wireless mesh systems for last-mile access, where he was the founding CEO; Covad Communications (Amex: DVW, $9B market cap at the peak), the leading independent DSL access provider, where he was the founding Chairman; InterTrust Technologies ($9B market cap at the peak), the pioneer in digital rights management technologies, now owned by Sony and Philips, where he was SVP Business Development and the pitchman for the IPO.

Before these ventures, Duncan was a partner at Cambridge Venture Partners, an early-stage venture firm, and managing partner of Gemini McKenna, a joint venture between Regis McKenna's marketing firm and Gemini Consulting, the global management consulting arm of Cap Gemini.

He serves on the board or is an adviser to Aggregate Knowledge (content discovery), Livescribe (digital pen), AllVoices (citizen journalism), Xumii (mobile social addressbook), Verismo (Internet settop box), and Widevine (DRM for IPTV).

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TechCrunch Jumps the Shark on April Fool’s Posts

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