Gillmor Gang 9.10.11 (tctv)

The Gillmor Gang — Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — rallied from big media's confusion over how to grapple with reality. For @dannysullivan, the notion that Apple dominates the social moment (@stevegillmor says this) flies in the face of reality, or at least last years's model. For @scobleizer, Google+ is becoming the home of conversation, while @kevinmarks takes umbrage at the idea that Apple and iOS are only for rich people (@stevegillmor doesn't say this.) @jtaschek spends some of his social capital reimagining new names for the AOL/Yahoo fantasy merger, and @stevegillmor sees blue sky ahead as iOS 5 and its push notification bus pulls into town.

Gillmor Gang 9.10.11 (TCTV)

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Gillmor Gang 9.3.11 (tctv)

The Gillmor Gang -— Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — calmed down after a week of Dreamforce, the annual salesforce.com user conference. As the editorial independence of TechCrunch is questioned, let us be clear that Dan Farber is editor in chief of CBSNewsOnline, Robert Scoble is Chief Scobleizer Officer of Rackspace, and the rest of us are Salesforce.com employees. Let me be clear that I support and appreciate Michael Arrington and his evolution for a very simple reason, namely that the horse he rode in on is the very reason why TechCrunch exists and is so valued.

Gillmor Gang 9.3.11 (TCTV)

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(Founder Stories) Gilt’s Kevin Ryan—It Is All In The Presentation (TCTV)

Chris Dixon wraps his Founder Stories interview with Gilt Groupe’s CEO and Founder, Kevin Ryan by discussing the early sales strategy of Gilt - a strategy that was designed to build customer and brand loyalty, but not the bottom line, at least initially. Revisiting the launch period around four years ago, Ryan says, "we were going to make $4,000 for us on a sale and I spent $7,000 on the photo shoot, and you would say that is not a good business model, but what happened was the brands loved it, the customers loved it ... and so now we sell $100,000, $200,000, $300,000 .... on a sale."

(Founder Stories) Gilt’s Kevin Ryan—It Is All In The Presentation (TCTV)

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Wait, You’re Going to Pay Me to Watch Movies All Day? (TCTV)

Earlier today, I wrote about our brush with machetes, the chaotic world of Nigerian filmmaking, and a company called Iroko Partners that's working on bringing order and YouTube distribution to the chaotic world of Nollywood. It's made stunning progress in the short four months it has been in business, and it's barely scratched the surface of Nollywood demand. Below is a video we shot with founder Jason Njoku. He describes the business in more detail, and the clip opens with some glimpses of the chaotic Alaba International Market where Nollywood movies are bought and sold. Video below.

Wait, You’re Going to Pay Me to Watch Movies All Day? (TCTV)

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Behind The Scenes At The New York Tech Meetup (TCTV)

Since launching in 2004, the New York Tech Meetup has mushroomed to more than 17,000 members, making it the largest MeetUp in the world. Once a month the community pours into the Skirball Center on NYU’s campus to network and watch nascent companies demo their products. Companies who’ve taken center stage in the past include Tumblr and Foursquare. Paid tickets are quickly snapped up and the organization recently hired its first Managing Director, Jessica Lawrence to handle growth. I attended the April 6th MeetUp with approximately 800 other spectators, one of which was Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark. His presences was a highlight for one of the presenters of Lemonade Stand, a company that helps facilitate the online buying and selling of items in a community. (Video after jump).

Behind The Scenes At The New York Tech Meetup (TCTV)

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Gillmor Gang 11.25.10 (TCTV)

The Gillmor Gang almost didn't happen today, as technical problems tormented the hastily assembled pre-holiday hoedown. Will Kinect save Microsoft? No, says Robert Scoble. Will Facebook and Apple destroy our freedom as they capture our identities and lock us behind a pay wall of our own choosing? Yes, says identity leader Dick Hardt. Gillmor had other ideas, but spent much of his time below decks trying to wrangle Kevin Marks' up and down Skype connection. This is a long show, about as long as it takes to set up Apple TV and the new iOS version 4.2 on a chain of iDevices, but in the end something about it works. Enjoy while you're waiting for the turkey to cook, and a Happy Thanksgiving from the Gang. Video Ahead

Gillmor Gang 11.25.10 (TCTV)

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Gillmor Gang 11.20.10 (TCTV)

The Gillmor Gang convened this week in the wake of the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco. Much of the conversation, however, concerned TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington's water crisis. We did get a chance to intermingle some attitude about Facebook's new Message platform, which apparently only Robert Scoble has wangled an active account. The Gang was split down the middle on Facebook's credibility in the data portability space, with Arrington and searchengineland editor Danny Sullivan arguing that Facebook are a bunch of liars and salesforce.com Cloudblogger John Taschek saying everybody in Silicon Valley was challenged in the truthiness department. Gillmor, of course, argued back and forth just for the sake of it. Arrington eventually veered off into a discussion of virtual reality, leaving us with the thought that whoever invents that will get all the money. Video ahead.

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From Bootstrapping To $300M In Value: Meet The Founder Of Directi (TCTV)

When the press gathered to shoot pictures and videos of the likes of Jack Dorsey (Twitter), Niklas Zennstrom (Skype), Chad Hurley (YouTube) and Michael Birch (Bebo) last Thursday when I arrived at my hotel in Dublin, where the F.ounders event was being held, I was surprised to see a fifth man get prompted to be included by the event organizers. Particularly because I didn't recognize who this guy was, and not even his name rang a bell. Over the course of the next few days, I've gotten to know him, and he has a fantastically inspiring story to tell alright: meet Divyank Turakhia, one of India's youngest and most successful pirates - sorry, technology entrepreneurs.

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The Father Of CSS Talks HTML5, CSS3 (A TCTV Interview)

Lots of abbreviations in the title and URL, but with an audience like TechCrunch's I'm not too worried about the point coming across or not. At this week's Opera press event held in Oslo, Norway, I had a chance to spend a couple of minutes talking to Håkon Wium Lie, who is not only the software company's chief technology officer but also broadly known as the "father of CSS". In 1994 while at W3C, Wium Lie was the man who proposed the concept of Cascading Style Sheets, which describes how documents are presented on screens, in print, or perhaps how they are pronounced. A graduate of the MIT Media Lab, he also spent quite some time at CERN working on the World Wide Web project together with Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau (see our earlier interview with the latter here). We talked CSS3 (the next iteration of Cascading Style Sheets), HTML5 (the next iteration of the HTML language) and the role of Opera Software as a company in both.

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