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The Day Facebook Lost Half Its Value

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Out of curiosity, who is Jason Calacanis, and why does anybody care what he says or does?

(Honest question. I see his name pop up on HN pretty often, but can't really figure out what he does beyond mahalo, which looks similar to eHow etc.)

Honestly, this quote just looks like it was boo hooing facebook's success.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Calacanis

The LAUNCH <> TechCrunch 50 split gives some background: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17465035?nclick_check...

He's an entrepreneur who is very good at making noise and getting attention. While his public persona is grating, he has actually done more than most of the people who complain about him.

I think most of his fame came because he built an audience on the internet before anyone else really, before blogging was even a term. Since then he's just looked at ways to capitalise on his influence in the tech world.

Please don't post useless quotes from TC on here. That TC post has no actual content, discussion or information aside from a year-old quote.

I take the post as more of a commentary on TC. This is arguably the most powerful startup news source, and it is posting silly gotcha quotes?

One of those "quotes" that come back to bite the writer in the ass down the line.

I always (try to) catch myself when I start speculating in absolutes like this. There is little to no reward in being right about something like this, and if you're wrong, the Internet will remind you every year for the rest of eternity. So, do yourself a favor and start using more conditional words like "maybe" and "possibly".

I mean, yeah.

But come on, TechCrunch. Let the whole Calacanis thing go.

This makes TechCrunch come across really childish, if it was in the context of an post sure go ahead and post it.

There was talk of TechCrunch having jumped the shark a couple of weeks ago. Is this another sign of that? Certainly seems that way . .

Google buzz isn't going to be easy to lure people in to. The UI/UE isn't all that great. And I say this as a gmail user. I really think google needs to think about acquiring the next up and coming social service...whatever that may be...

I guess the downvotes came because you focused on the real product instead of focusing on Calacanis or TC.

When HNers started downvoting thought that are at least fair and for sure politely expressed?

I didn't really get the reason behind the downvotes...but I'm new around here so I thought I was missing something in the rules. Thanks for your post!

TC must just be bitter that Jason's Launch conference last week was so good, whereas their Disrupt events have been lackluster.

Launch was good. But so was Disrupt. What indicates to you that Disrupt has been lackluster?

Anyone got a link to the TED talk the post mentions?

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