Let’s hope we see something exciting soon

“And, reputations and who they are, makes all the difference. That’s why Mahalo gets as much attention as it does. It has absolutely nothing to do with the search engine. It’s all about Jason making noise based on his past experience.”

When I said that I wasn’t discounting their experience, nor was I denying the importance - I was just trying to slide it to one side, thus clear the way for my point : )

Mind you, I guess it demonstrates how honest we are, so when we compliment, it’s not just another back-clapping exercise as we tend to see in this sphere all too often. Look forward to lunch.

“People like you continue to prod because you know he has a past.”

I don’t call that raising a question I call that insinuating that this story is a personal attack on Birch, when it is simply a story about where Cominded is with its project, after they went totally silent despite claims on their site that they were launching in September.

You have now successfully baited me, so congratulations!

I look forward to sharing a beer over this - and your own plans - when we have lunch on Jan 16th.

All I did was raise some questions. As a commentator, can’t I do that without being attacked by you? I don’t need lessons journalism because I never claimed to be a journalist. Nor do I want to be one.

“it’s a Web site, that’s it.”

What a fucking joke. Apparently everything online is “just a web site”. Oh, Ok Paul, then I’ll give up now. It’s just the Web after-all

“Paul doesn’t go around telling people about the company, or its plans.”

No, he just announces in April (2007) on the Internet (which isn’t very public really is it?) that Cominded will be coming out with product, and then announces on his site that September is the launch date. Then goes silent for 5 months. Then when someone finally calls him on it, he says product will be coming out within the month. Surprise surprise.

“People like you continue to prod because you know he has a past.”

No Paul, I was prodding because he’d announced a product which is now 5 months late, apparently. You may want to personalise this, but I’m not about to take the bait. It’s not about him, it’s about what he announced. And I should think he has been damn lucky it took this long for anyone to notice that nothing actually happened. Plus, I think he’s big enough to fight his own corner, being co-owner of Bebo and all, don’t you?

“you wouldn’t waste any real estate on TechCrunch to talk about a company that hasn’t launched yet.”

Correct, I wouldn’t - unless they’d said they were GOING TO LAUNCH AND THEN DIDN’T. GOT IT?

Are we all clear now people? Here endeth Journalism lesson 101. Paul Walsh, please stay behind for extra tuition.

I kind of agree that skipping deadlines is Cominded’s business only. But I also am interested in any possible new launch so thanks Mike for forcing the hand a little and getting an announcement date.

Paul doesn’t go around telling people about the company, or its plans. People like you continue to prod because you know he has a past. If this was a person with no past, you wouldn’t waste any real estate on TechCrunch to talk about a company that hasn’t launched yet.

You could argue that you could push the perfectionist side of it too far and that having a product out there in some format gets you in the game and helps you evolve from customer feedback - but I give full kudos to Paul and Scott for wanting to wait and deliver something of really quality instead of some usual product dross.

but where would be the fun in that? booooring

Of course people could still create a false openid address but as most people do not do so it would

Check out http://redmonk.net/ and the DiSO project.

Andrew, how could Paul Brich have a more successful brother. Read my comment again, they’re *co*-founders.

Why can’t people with issues come out into the open so we can see who they are? It’s so easy to fling mud from behind a smoke screen. You’re both obviously very unhappy with your employer. May I suggest you change your job.

In regard to the club a test version was launched 10 months ago.

In respect to Cominded it is worth remembering that Bebo was their 6 or 7th website. It was build on a stop platform of technology and knowledge after 5 years of hard work and tough challenges.

Cominded states on it’s about page that their intention is to build multiple services. Cominded is clearly playing for the long term. Is it that strange, given their previous experience, that they are spending time on preparation and creating a solid platform to build from?

Better to say you will launch a cool new service, than launch something everyone thinks is pants.

Can’t wait for the next top c%^t’s event. Another waste of time where you rip people off!

Firstly Birthday Alarm wasn’t sold to Tickle. They still own Birthday Alarm inc.

Ringo was sold to emode that became Tickle.

Soflow Ltd then raised $5 million dollars (changing to Soflow Inc) to work on a new vision when we hadn’t got Soflow.com to work. The assets of Soflow Ltd were transfered to Soflow Inc at the point that funding was raised. Soflow Inc owns Wis.dm. I left a few months after we’d raised the VC funding.

I think you mean AIC, Berry Dillers empire.

If the US sneezed today, we’d catch a cold in two weeks

And, reputations and who they are, makes all the difference. That’s why Mahalo gets as much attention as it does. It has absolutely nothing to do with the search engine. It’s all about Jason making noise based on his past experience.

Don’t be so down on the UK or Europe.