Happy Birthday, Mike

by Erick Schonfeld on March 13, 2008

Today is Michael Arrington’s birthday. Our good friend, and awesome Web 2.0 blogger, Orli Yakuel made the above video for him, using Animoto (see yesterday’s post).

Happy Birthday, Mike. You can go to sleep now.

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Comments

Michael Arrington - March 13th, 2008 at 8:21 am PDT

wow.

that’s just. wow.

jon - March 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am PDT

Haha, nice video.

Happy birthday Mike, have a good one!

Robbie Kiama - March 13th, 2008 at 8:23 am PDT

happy birthday nice vid, nice photos

Mickey - March 13th, 2008 at 8:24 am PDT

Cool video, but what was the purpose of exporting it to YouTube? I don’t mean that rhetorically, it’s an honest question. Animoto gives you embed code right on their site. All that pushing it to YouTube will do is hurt the quality a little bit (any recompression is bad for the quality of a video).

Just curious.

Coen Meerbeek - March 13th, 2008 at 8:24 am PDT

Happy Birthday. Read a lot of your posts so keep that going!

Eric - March 13th, 2008 at 8:25 am PDT

H.A.P.P.Y B.I.R.T.H.D.A.Y M.I.K.E

(and didn’t require camtasia)

Abhishek - March 13th, 2008 at 8:27 am PDT

happy birthday mike. i love what you have done in 2-3 years with techcrunch. you are my hero. and yeah right…its just “wow”. i liked the song. don’t know which one is it?

Michael Arrington - March 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am PDT

Abhishek - its Black Eyed Peas, My Humps. inside joke around the office.

Dan Field - March 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am PDT

Happy Birthday, Mike…

Your birthday present from us is a lifetime sub to ClearMyMail

Email me for your free account Mike!

/pd - March 13th, 2008 at 8:35 am PDT

Happy B’day , COn’grats and all the best !!

yeah Orli, is such a sweetie -very imaginative !!

Jeff Crites - March 13th, 2008 at 8:36 am PDT

Enjoy your thirties while they last

I’m glad your dog was given proper props. Dogs rule.

Barry Schwartz - March 13th, 2008 at 8:38 am PDT

Happy Birthday and great video!

The Big K - March 13th, 2008 at 8:39 am PDT

HaPpy Birthday To You …
HaPpy Birthday To YOUUUUUUU
HaPpy Birthday Dear Michael
Happppeee Birthdaaay tooooo YOU
—————————————————————
:)

allen stern - March 13th, 2008 at 8:41 am PDT

damn animoto is impressive. mike ain’t bad either.

Daniel Thomaser - March 13th, 2008 at 8:41 am PDT

Somehow I just had to imagine Michael dancing to that song.
weird.

@8 Dan Field: …

Roberto Arancibia - March 13th, 2008 at 8:43 am PDT

Happy birthday! Feliz cumpleaños!
Best regards from Chile, and congrats to Orli and the guys at Animoto.

K.Kaviraj - March 13th, 2008 at 8:44 am PDT

wwoOOOWWW Happy Birthday Mike - u r for sure the unbeaten until today in the tech blogsphere !!!! Note : Tom cruise is on his way to wish you - as Mr L.Ron Hubbard ( Founder of scientology ) was also born on this day in 1911 !!!! [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard ]

Nag - March 13th, 2008 at 8:56 am PDT

Happy Birthday Mike.

Have a good one.

Cheers, Nag

Mickey - March 13th, 2008 at 9:00 am PDT

My bad — there it is:

http://blog.animoto.com/2008/0.....o-youtube/

Pedro Machado Santa - March 13th, 2008 at 9:04 am PDT

Congratulations Michael, for you and for all the great *Crunch content.

steve - March 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am PDT

anyone with a dog that cute can’t be all bad. Happy Birthday, Michael!

Fred Neil - March 13th, 2008 at 9:13 am PDT

cool bday video. from an owner & fan of chocolate labs, good 2 c shots of Laguna. Happy bday, keep up the awesome work, Cheers

Daniel - March 13th, 2008 at 9:15 am PDT

Happy Birthday Mike.

Saagar - March 13th, 2008 at 9:45 am PDT

Happy Birthday Mike, though you suck occasionally with the display of all the big ego, overall none can question your hardwork or perseverance in making TC such a huge success. In some ways you are a role model too. Btw, how old are you

Trae Regan - March 13th, 2008 at 9:50 am PDT

Happy Birthday, Mr. Arrington!

D - March 13th, 2008 at 10:02 am PDT

Happy Birthday :0

Om Malik - March 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am PDT

happy birthday mike.

as your office mates are saying… go get some sleep.

Zach Weisman - March 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am PDT

Nice job Or!

Zach Weisman - March 13th, 2008 at 10:15 am PDT

Happy Birthday Michael too!

Victor Shamanovsky - March 13th, 2008 at 10:16 am PDT

Cheers Mike

alireza - March 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am PDT

Happy birthday Michael.

Joke Cricket - March 13th, 2008 at 11:48 am PDT

Happy B’day Mike

Joe - March 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am PDT

Congrats, How old are you now?

Anand - March 13th, 2008 at 12:23 pm PDT

Hey Mike,

It is my birthday too..wow, Techcrunch and Techcrunchies now have something more in common!

Enjoy your birthday, man!

Kai Brach - March 13th, 2008 at 12:35 pm PDT

Hey Michael,

Happy Birthday and all the best from Germany and all the German readers. Your blog and all the work you put into the Crunchies really inspires a lot of people here in Europe. Keep up the good work mate!

Kai