The article itself is very nearly content-free, and definitely does not gratify my intellectual curiosity. Reading it just felt like a waste of my time.
Most of the comments here are pretty mean and snarky - attacking Kevin Rose, Digg, Milk, or all three.
Hacker News used to be a lot better than this. I flagged it, fwiw.
As a dreamer who has difficulty taking projects past the proof of concept stage, I think it's fascinating Rose is starting a skunkworks/experimentation-style company. I would love to have a business like that where I had a staff and we would quickly develop ideas to the proof of concept stage and spin off companies. That's not something you see much in the wild... all you really hear about are the companies where a team took an idea all the way (to scale, if not to profitability).
I find this far, far more interesting from a business perspective than most of the "so-and-so is launching a startup" articles.
And honestly, I think it's far more relevant to hackers than, say, the Path announcement. Rose is basically starting a company where the business strategy is hacking. Not customer development or venture-backed growth... just hacking together cool projects and see what sticks.
If it weren't for TechCrunch's heavy focus on startups, I'd suggest they be banned from Hacker News in general. They provide information, but their tone is generally exactly what people are worried about Hacker News turning into. Annoyingly, I've seen a few cases in the past where TechCrunch's post have gotten more upvotes than the original source's blogpost (I believe it was a Google announcement).
The article itself is very nearly content-free, and definitely does not gratify my intellectual curiosity. Reading it just felt like a waste of my time.
Most of the comments here are pretty mean and snarky - attacking Kevin Rose, Digg, Milk, or all three.
Hacker News used to be a lot better than this. I flagged it, fwiw.