Mashable?
We gave a lot of bloggers a beta account so they could test our service before we went live. And we urged them not to publish their articles before Techrunch posted their article. Apparently Pete couldn’t control himself any longer and I had a misunderstanding (see comments) and he published his post moments ago. This is unfortunate and I regret it happened.
Fleck will go live in a few hours during the Techcrunch party in New York.
(Pete’s post is very well written and I am really happy with the article now that I read it! If only… sigh…)
Pete Cashmore said,
November 16, 2006 @ 9:10 pm
Woah there! I asked you three days ago when I could publish, and you said the 16th. There was no official embargo, and you said nothing about waiting until everyone else had covered it (which would have made posting about it pointless, because it would no longer be news).
boris said,
November 16, 2006 @ 9:18 pm
Hi Pete, sorry for the confusion. In the last email we exchanged you wrote:
“On 14-nov-2006, at 22:05, Pete Cashmore wrote:
Yep, mail me just before you’re ready, so I can write in advance.”
Which I thought meant that you would wait until I emailed you. Not because I wanted you to post after everybody else but because we are guests at the Techcrunch party and we promised Techcrunch that they would be able to post about Fleck first and only after we put the site live.
Apparently I wasn’t clear enough about this.
David Petherick said,
November 16, 2006 @ 9:32 pm
I am ready to blog when you say go Boris.
And your “virtual bar” is ready when you are – no /boris needed in the payment URI.
Regards from Scotland, David
Marshall Kirkpatrick said,
November 16, 2006 @ 10:12 pm
Sheesh, looks like I better get to bloggin’.
michael arrington said,
November 16, 2006 @ 10:52 pm
this kind of thing happens quite often because there is really no penalty for people to break embargoes, bend the rules, etc… We usually just kill a writeup when it does. In this case, we’re moving forward with a post.
JaV said,
November 16, 2006 @ 10:58 pm
WEB 2.0 SCANDAL; PREMATURE COVERAGE! Goes down as the funniest “Ooooops!” in the web 2.0 circles this week.
Vivek Puri said,
November 16, 2006 @ 11:28 pm
Guys i also wanted to nail this one
Maybe next time 
Search Engines WEB said,
November 17, 2006 @ 6:10 am
What does it matter who writes something first – every has their own audience – just like everyone has their own perspectives and opinions….
Hopefully WEB 2.0 will be free from politics as time goes by – the very principle behind Web 2.0 is information freedom and sharing
Search Engines WEB said,
November 17, 2006 @ 6:11 am
?
Come now,
What does it matter who writes something first – every one has their own audience – just like everyone has their own perspectives and opinions….
Hopefully WEB 2.0 will be free from politics as time goes by – the very principle behind Web 2.0 is information freedom and sharing
Screeniac » Fleck.com said,
November 17, 2006 @ 7:40 am
[...] Fleck allows you to write notes on any web page and then share them with your friends and colleagues or save them for yourself. You can use the search box on fleck.com or you can add the fleck bookmarklet to your web browser and then whenever you are on a web page you want to write notes on, just click it and you can get busy. There is nothing to download and you don’t even have to register unless you want to send your annotated pages to your friends or if you want to access your annotated pages on multiple computers. There was a bit of a controversy on the coverage of the launch of fleck that you can view on their blog. Flash Version [...]