Great website, too bad its having problems loading, techcrunch effect.

Well, there is simmilar site working already - iloggo.com. It’s a polish project.

We are having DNS issues, since the domain was transfered just a short while ago. It will be up and running in no time.

it sure is dead right now

How much is advertising? Since the site is dead maybe some information can be relayed here.

yeah, at the end no matter how much time you invest in developing its the small things that kill ya, in this case moving domain dns caching issue.

Still it does not work for me.

Works now for me

I did a hard refresh and the site is now live for me.

It sure is a great site! I recently read a blog post in Hebrew that mentioned TechCrunch and Go2Web20 in the same breath.

Although your “suggest a site” email address is not working (assume thats the dns issue as well).

Guess i’ll suggest it here then - http://www.swamii.com

It is amazing what Michael is willing to do, just to help his ex-Israeli gf. He gave her the idea about the site, promoted it number of times in the past, gave her the new business model and now helping her to get the advertisers….I guess it was worth it

Still not loading

Yeah, it’s still dead. Does TechCrunch use MediaTemple for everything, database included?

doesn’t strike as a dns problem.

hey, i’ll suggest mine here

http://www.betabug.com

@Web2Blow :

Advertising a dead site is more like a penalty, so i doubt your theory.
This sure is bad publicity.

@ Mooky 2.0

What I’m saying is not a theory…facts.
The site is down because of the huge traffic this publicity has generated, which means, Michael’s help is working…. the site gets more traffic and might get advertising deals….Michael is giving the credibility….
Just look how many times he has already commented here…

Definately a load problem, not a DNS problem…

Techcrunch is Paying For Diggs!!

web2blow is correct…orli yakuel (owner of site) is michael’s ex-girlfriend from israel…the thing missing from the theory is that orli is one of the most powerful people on digg…if you are that powerful on digg you can promote any story to the front page.

orli’s digg screenname is ‘webtech’…if you look at her digg profile you can see she regularly submits techcrunch stories and gets them to the front page…looks like she is submitting crunchgear.com posts too. she even dugg this exact post! michael recently said that digg provides most of techcrunch’s traffic…so webtech is techcrunch’s biggest traffic source!

michael is buying ads on go2web2 and trying to make money for it so he can keep getting dugg! despicable!

Best directory !

Because of the fact that Orli was Michael’s ex-gf, all Israel entrepreneurs are afraid to say something bad about her….they will not get a coverage on TechCrunch. It is amazing what did this woman (33+), who was a secretary (until 3 months ago) has achieved since she met Michael.
This is what I call, The power of Branding2.0

http://www.google.com/search?q.....web20.net/

This may shed some light on why it’s down

http://www.google.com/search?q.....web20.net/

This may shed some light on why it is down

I see mike hasn’t commented anymore since this hasn’t come to surface???hmm…;)

#19 mr web 2.0 - how do you know she is his ex-gf? there is no doubt that webtech gets nearly everything she/he posts on digg to the home page. interesting theory you have.

From where i’m at, the domainname doesn’t even resolve.

Seems like the site got other problems.

This site is great. I like the fact that it gives you an outstanding idea of the kinds of Web 2.0 logos out there. So unique and so alike.

Please take a look at the original post Orli has posted on her blog introducing the new Directory features: http://go2web2.blogspot.com/20.....tions.html

…and the first comment is from…. Michael…saying:
count TechCrunch in.
Mike, TC

and right after him is Ouriel, the guy who is writing the French version of TechCrunch saying:
Orli this is a great idea. Your directory rocks. no doubt advertisers will love it

You tell me if this is innocent or not…

great page, i found it much better
http://www.publishandwin.com

As part of a personal project, I put together a dynamically updated list of the leading web 2.0 sites, their alexa performance, and how their stats compare against the other sites in the last day, week or month.

I used the alexa API to create the list, and it’s currently hosted on eSnips, though it’s not related to the site, I just work there…

If you want to take a look, check out http://movers20.esnips.com and please leave me comments (Suggest link on top).

I’ve used their directory before. Great visual presentation of all the Web 2.0 sites. However they need to step up make the interface a bit more 2.0 style.

Anyhow I can’t get to their site now. Seems like they are feeling the crunch effect.

-Guna

@staci b.

here is a picture of michael and orli together here in israel…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/m.....106651908/

orli’s photo stream also has lots of michael and techcrunch images….(flickr.com/photos/orliy1/)

here is orli’s digg account. most of the stories she submitted are from crunchgear…and many of the stories she dugg are from techcrunch….(digg.com/users/webtech/)

this proves that michael is paying (buying ads on go2web20) cos orli is his ex girlfriend and she creates most of the traffic for his sites. michael should be *ashamed* and the other web2 directories should be *angry* becos they are getting excluded so michael can make more money! shameful!

Please find Orli’s Flicker account, where she publish all her TechCrunch related images, something like teenager worship.
She even published a screenshot of the her Digg username (webtech) on the site’s top ten.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/orliy1/

Congrats to Eyal and Orli for their nice work, i know how hard they worked on it. Too much “brave” anonymous bashing is going on here.

I remember this recent post on michaels personal blog (http://www.crunchnotes.com/?p=342)…this proves that orli is responsible for techcrunch traffic….

‘In response to a couple of inquiries, here are the top 11 sources of TechCrunch traffic in December 2006 (via Google Analytics):

1. google[organic] 391,034
2. (direct)[(none)] 326,796
3. digg.com[referral] 192,774

Digg remains a very important site for overall TechCrunch traffic.’

Also, a man called niall kennedy put this in the comments…

‘You should send Orli a nice thank you gift for Valentines Day after driving that much traffic.’

it is despicable that michael has not disclosed that go2web is created by his ex gf and one of the big sources of techcrunch traffic. orli should never be mentioned on techcrunch just becos she is his ex gf and makes a lot of money for michael by getting his stories on digg.com!! michael you should be *ashamed*.

Folks, may I point out (at the risk of getting oh-so-bashed) that the fact that Orli is one of the top digg users is widely known (heck, even Orli herself published a screenshot of this on her Flickr some time ago), Orli’s entire digging history is obviously open for anyone to look at, Orli’s picture with Mike has been publicly available on Mike’s Flickr stream for ages, and Mike has “disclosed” in his post that he is advertising on Go2Web20 to support it.

This is top-notch detective work, uncovering well known and public facts. Oh well.

I would also risk guessing that TechCrunch posts are interesting enough to make it to Digg’s home page without any top digg user help.

I for one would like to applaud Mike for setting a consistently high standard for full disclosure, one that the folks hiding behind funny nicknames may want to follow.

Things have now taken an interesting turn. First, the go2web20 site going down due to …. traffic or a bad server??? Only, GoDaddy can tell.

Second, the whole Mike and Orli connection. Honestly, when I saw the photo by Mr 2.0 http://www.flickr.com/photos/m.....106651908/ I let out a small laughter. Besides, the whole disclosure and connection issues (where everyone have their own opinions), I could also see the two (Mike and Orli) tilting towards each other in Isreal, the ONLY way that strong (very strong) connections can allow (with his elbow aiming at her boobs). It’s a bit like the whole Da Vinci Code thing, with Jesus and Mary Magdalene sitting next to each other. Excuse me Dan Brown! But, it’s so obvious that Orli must be Mike’s ‘Isreal’s delight’

I do not really know what is going on here. I just started reading every techcrunch post about a month ago. I just want to say Michael Arrington is the man, and Gotoweb20.net is an awesome site.

Yeah ‘tommyboy’. Mike is the man and Orli is the woman. You are just the boy. What is going on is beyond your scope. Grow up and see what adults see. This is called branding power 2.0 (or is it bottom power 2.0)!

i think the bit about the digg is more important than the girlfriend bit…I just looked at that webtech account and there are lotz of crunchnetwork stories that have got to the top of digg cos of that account…

…i heard michael charges $10,000 per month for the ads…if webtech got just 40% or 50% of the homepage stories…then she has earned michael *more than $15,000 per month!*

to yaniv, i think this would be a better disclosure…

‘I have only written about this company becuase orli earns me 10s of thousands of dollars and used to be my girlfriend.sorry to all the other web 2.0 directories.’

Congrats to Orli and Go2web20.

When you got folks gossiping about you a la Paris Hilton, you know you’re doing something right:)

Cheers,

Zaid

I feel that the little about the digg is more important than the bitten girl friend.

I just looked at this account of webtech and there is lotz stories of crunchnetwork which owe the top of the digg cos of this account.

I heard expenses $10.000 of Michael per month for the ADS… if the webtech obtained just 40% or 50% of the stories of homepage…

then it gained Michael * more than $15.000 per month! * of the yaniv, I think that it would be a better revelation…

I only wrote about this company than the orli of becuase gains me 10s thousands of dollars and employed to be my girlfriend.sorry with all the other sequence 2.0 directories.’

http://www.gadgetsexpose.com

More daysofourlivescrunch! Woohoo!

Seriously, if powerful digg users water down the quality of front page results then that’s a problem in the site’s model, not the very human users. Wake up people. This is Mike’s blog, and either you feel he tries to be open and objective for coverage in the interest of his readers or you don’t. Just the fact that he allows comments that bash him tells you he is not trying to avoid disclosure.

S.L.O.W.

Can anyone tell me what’s so special about it? I don’t feel like scrolling through hundreds of small images just to find out that the actual page isn’t what I expected from the logo.

Yo. Get off this homiz back. Fo real man. Unlike this haters the guy has a life. Most of the people who have a problem with this are the ones who spend the entire day on a computer screen and can’t have girlfriends. If a great startup or technology was created by Mikes chuwawa then so be it. Let’s hear about it. Besides if you are that upset it doesn’t seem that you are paying to read the blog. Just kick rocks. If your argument is not related to the product covered please be quiet.
Now web2blow. Sorry about what happened back then. We know your story. Just let it go.

Really good site.Lol and yeah so true the techrunch affect can give any site a true test of loading.

thx for the update

The site is a good redesign from what they had before - the tag cloud dropdown is a big improvement over the listbox(!) of keywords they had before.

But the site still suffers from dramatic performance problems. My opinion - they need some more technical help in building a high-performance site. There is really no excuse for it’s speed problems. They should focus on image caching, downloading multiple images at once (image array), and other techniques.

What I really want, is a something like a “top box office” list (Merisel?) we used in the days of packaged software. How about something that shows all these categories sorted by their Alexa ranking, and shows last-week versus this-week rank and estimated weekly page views?

Did anyone notice my first post?

http://www.iloggo.com is same as it, and… no shit! it works!

This is one slow site. It reminds me of Friendster in the early days.