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August 24, 2006

Announcing TechCrunch UK

Michael Arrington

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I am pleased to announce our latest Crunch Network blog - TechCrunch UK - which launched moments ago.

TechCrunch UK is obviously not a translated blog like TechCrunch France and TechCrunch Japan (although both of these blogs have lots of original content as well). Instead, TechCrunch UK is all about UK based and/or focused startups. Many of these startups are written about on TechCrunch, but quite a few either are too early or aren’t necessarily of interest to the main TechCrunch audience. TechCrunch UK is a place to read about these companies, and I look forward to many of them also eventually being profiled here at the main TechCrunch site.

The blog is being written by Sam Sethi, a London based entrepreneur. You can read more about Sam on the TechCrunch UK About page, here, or on his personal blog. I first met Sam back in May at a TechCrunch event we held in London. We immediately hit it off and have been conspiring to launch this blog ever since. I am honored to have someone of Sam’s caliber write for our network, and I look forward to his posts.

Sam’s already got his announcement post up, as well as news on Piczo (which is doing a UK press tour).

If you would like to subscribe to TechCrunch UK via RSS, the URL is http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechcrunchUK. Alternatively you can subscribe by email on the site. If you have any tips or suggestions, please email or Skype Sam directly. His contact information is on the About page.

I also want to thank our London-based designer, Jeremy Baines, who’s done the design and coding work for TechCrunch UK, as well as CrunchGear. For those of you who’ve asked, we’ll be moving all of our sites over to this new design in the coming weeks.

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  1. Peter Harkins

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:06 am

    Mike, are there two of you? Do you ever sleep?

  2. Paul Watson

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:16 am

    Off topic but Michael, you may want to check out Amazon’s new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=201590011). Just got an email about it.

  3. Orli Yakuel

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:23 am

    Congratulations friend!

    Same question like Peter..
    :-)

  4. Audrey Hepburn

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:30 am

    Onward and upward TechCrunch! Congrats yet again on another great launch Mike - your long hours are paying off. (Hmm…maybe it’s time to take two advil, and get some sleep now! :-)

  5. Sam Sethi

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:37 am

    Thanks Michael. I am really excited. The UK Web and Mobile startup scene has been hiding its light under a virtual bushell for far too long. There are some great UK companies which I hope TCUK can bring to a wider audience.

    I suppose there goes tha little old thing called sleep. Well it’s so last century ;-)

  6. Jeremy Baines

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:52 am

    TechCrunch Uk Rules!!! (I maybe slightly biased)

  7. kuju

    August 24th, 2006 at 3:52 am

    Congratulations !

  8. Emily Coches

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:12 am

    I am sick of techcrunch stuff now

  9. Micha

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:22 am

    Congrats Mike! To anonymous 8 - it’s time you learn to use email.

  10. Fergus Burns

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:24 am

    Best of luck Sam and Michael with the new venture.

    Subscribed….

    Regards
    Fergus

  11. Ricardo Tohmé

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:26 am

    Congratulations Michael, and I really hope this doesn’t have further consequences on your network sites’ content quality. Looking forward for a Spanish version…

  12. anonymous

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:27 am

    Micha, you certainly have a good point there, but I was curious to know how long it would be before they would take my comment out.

  13. Stephen Davies

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:27 am

    This is great stuff! Well, for someone like me in the UK it is.

    The Techcrunch empire just keeps growing!

  14. Alex

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:27 am

    All the best guys! I hope that this version of the site will build the TechCrunch brand into an even greater authority on Web 2.0

    Good luck!

  15. jamescoops

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:35 am

    Great news - throwing the spotlight on the UK is going to reveal some interesting stuff - particularly in the mobile area. Watch this space.

  16. Sam Sethi

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:41 am

    Anonymous. You have my email and my skype details. I have no issues nor does BT please get your facts right. If you have any issues please contact me directly.

  17. Micha

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:42 am

    To anonymous 14: Oh, I get it now… So it’s a really a game where you trash someone publicly on a website that is not yours to begin with, without stating who you are and then complain because your comment is taken out. Amazing!

  18. Joe Anderson

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:46 am

    Seriously? What is the point?

    I’m British, and while there are some differences in UK and US markets (popularity of Bebo vs MySpace, as an example); it’s really the same market.

    Is it necessary? No.

  19. Chris

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:47 am

    OK, seriously, I think there’s too much to read now! I can’t keep up with everyone anymore. Maybe you’ll limit the number of posts in a given day so I don’t feel like I’m left behind in the dust when missing one day of reading (and that’s a compliment actually).

  20. eelco

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:53 am

    How about an aggregated feed? My Netvibes main page has no more space left.

  21. Conor O'Neill

    August 24th, 2006 at 5:03 am

    Well done Sam, I’ve been subscribed to Vecosys for months. I’ve seen that very strong match between your areas of interest and Techcrunch.

  22. jamescoops

    August 24th, 2006 at 5:24 am

    Joe - think about how important TechCrunch has bene to US startups in terms of getting the attention of early adopters and showing themselves off to investors. If TechCrunch UK can do the same thing here then that’s got to be positive right? It’s not just about another blog to read - it’s also about the social capital that its gonna hopefully build :-)

  23. Cruncher

    August 24th, 2006 at 5:34 am

    Congratulations.TC is unique place.

    Looking at rapid pace of TC growth, I see one day TC may buy Google :)

  24. dumbfounder

    August 24th, 2006 at 6:24 am

    how about TechCrunch East Coast? seems like everything on here is all about the Valley or Seattle…

  25. Brian Solis

    August 24th, 2006 at 7:26 am

    TechCrunch is the new Techcrunch! Congrats Mike.

  26. Some One

    August 24th, 2006 at 8:15 am

    Uh.. useless?

  27. Jessep

    August 24th, 2006 at 8:26 am

    There are tons of UK-based “web 2.0″ companies that don’t really get the attention they deserved in the Silicon Valley world of Techcrunch.com

    Dropsend, Trustedplaces, Crowdstorm, Webkitchen, Heyamigo, Opencage, Citysafe, Soflow, Cominded, and everything at http://www.readwriteweb.com/ar.....0_apps.php , to name a few

  28. Mike Butcher

    August 24th, 2006 at 8:30 am

    Welcome to the party guys. What kept you? :-)

  29. Michael Parekh

    August 24th, 2006 at 8:55 am

    Congratulations, Guvnor! A hearty welcome, Sam.
    Look forward to the new feed.

  30. CrunchDollars

    August 24th, 2006 at 9:25 am

    The possibilities are endless for the Crunch network. Here are a few that could really make Mike even bigger than he his now (no pun intended):

    XXXCrunch - porn industry startups
    MafiaCrunch - organized crime news
    FraudCrunch - new ideas for frauds and scams (there might be some overlap here with some of these startups taking millions from VCs without any business model)

  31. Nicole Simon

    August 24th, 2006 at 9:46 am

    (Why does the trackback not show the name “Disappointed by Techcrunch UK, why not Techcrunch Europe” of my posting under crueltobekind above?)

    I am highly dissapointed by that approach. There was a chance to get a European audience, but you don’t seem to be interested what has been a trend in Europe for the last 3-4 years.

    Well. Most people from the US believe that “!opening an office in Europe” is done by going to the UK (which of course is nonsense in so many regards) that this is not really a surprise. Disappointing, but not that surprising.

  32. Alan Patrick

    August 24th, 2006 at 11:07 am

    I worked together with Sam (who is doing Techcrunch UK) last year, we co-impresario’s a major briefing session for senior UK blue chips on Podcasting, he is a good guy. Good luck, Sam.

    (and we’d be happy to provide the research for another session this year plug plug :D )

  33. Alex

    August 24th, 2006 at 11:37 am

    I really wish that you don’t change the design on TechCrunch.com - I’ve grown to like the green!

  34. Ian

    August 24th, 2006 at 12:12 pm

    Great idea, but their RSS feed system completely defeated me. Which means effectively invisible.

  35. tailor

    August 24th, 2006 at 12:37 pm

    Dear Sir, pls fix your comments sections so that all your negative comments are viewable!!!!
    Thank u 4 yr time.

  36. Dennis Howlett

    August 24th, 2006 at 2:13 pm

    (Cross commented from UK site) - Congratulations to both Mike and Sam on this. Sam is one of the ‘good guys’ - a truly smart chap. Look forward to feeding off your stuff.

  37. Shamir

    August 24th, 2006 at 2:14 pm

    Congrats - good stuff ! :)

  38. kaiju

    August 24th, 2006 at 2:41 pm

    What’s the Point? Seems that you talk about the same site EVERY DAY!

  39. gprime

    August 24th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    It is always good to have another blog in the Crunch Network, but I’m wondering why you’re expanding so rapidly at a time when one of your blogs (Talk Crunch) hasn’t been updated in over 2 months. That said, if you do another local release, I’d hope it would be covering Israeli start-ups, since it is a major player in the Web 2.0 world. Disproportionately so at that.

  40. Jessep

    August 24th, 2006 at 5:53 pm

    How about TechCrunch Global, which covers everything outside the US? (Because, as we all know, you’re either with us or you’re with the terabits.)

  41. Bob Shous

    August 24th, 2006 at 7:19 pm

    UPDATE TALKCRUNCH!

    You’re last podcasts on Digg & Flock were brilliant! It was a medium that allowed me a far greater insight to these guys than that of a blog post or traditional magazine article. Why haven’t you continued with it, when it’s pretty obvious you were on a winner?

  42. Jay Adair

    August 25th, 2006 at 2:43 am

    Great stuff Michael! Just what I wanted to see! Now I have a place to potential mention my own startup when it’s ready.

  43. Dan100

    August 25th, 2006 at 4:03 am

    For those who noticed the little “redesign coming” signpost in this article, you may want to check my blog (click my name) to read the full saga of this year’s TechCrunch redesigns…

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  50. Mark Slater

    February 27th, 2007 at 1:32 pm

    It’s a shame Techcrunch UK has been put on hold. I hope it will be back up and running soon?

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