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MG Siegler
Personal blog · parislemon.comstartupsbusinessculture
MG Siegler writes Tumblr, a personal blog at parislemon.com about startups, business and culture. Since 2008, 112 different Hacker News readers have linked it 140 times, most often “Chrome For Android: The Browser For The 1%”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (27) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN cites his posts as sources on Android, Chrome, TechCrunch and media scoops. Critics call his Android post ridiculous and his reply to Dan Lyons a vicious ad hominem.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 27 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Howdy, I'm M.G. Siegler. I’m a general partner at GV. This is where I collect things.
Most-linked posts?
- Chrome For Android: The Browser For The 1%4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-02-07
- Parislemon • Your True Social Network3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-10-19
- Bat. Shit. Crazy. (MG's response to Dan Lyons)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-02-14
- I’m sorry, but this is just sad and pathetic...2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-05
- The Wall Street Journal Is Fucking Bullshit2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-02-24
- Why I Hate Android2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-10
- TechCrunch - It's Not a Mirror, It's a Crystal Ball2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-06
- Going Against The Grain2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-02-15
- /post/10774472888/fake-steve-jobs-funny-real-dan-lyons-sloppy-lazy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-04
What Hacker News says?
MG's here: http://parislemon.com/post/17587323277/bat-shit-crazy
Comment linking /post/17587323277/bat-shit-crazy
on “Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool”Submitted Why I Hate Android as a story · 345 points
HN discussionyes it will.. > There will be the same 6-week release cycle for new versions, Pinchai says. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th... but i would ask will they be automatic or manual?
Comment linking /post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-the-browser-for-the-1
on “Introducing Chrome for Android”Submitted Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally. as a story · 118 points
HN discussionIt's using 4.0 APIs, according to Matt Seigler's story and interview with Google SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai: "Back to the bad news: some of the more advanced features of Chrome for Android require APIs found only in Ice Cream Sandwich, so the team made the call to make it only available for Android 4.0 and beyond. Again, this means only 1% of current Android users out there can actually get and use the browser righ…
Comment linking /post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-the-browser-for-the-1
on “Introducing Chrome for Android”Submitted MG Siegler: Faith No More as a story · 111 points
HN discussionAccording to MG Siegler, Chrome is in the bizdev-required proprietary 'with Google' part of Android, not the Open Source part. http://parislemon.com/post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-th... That means we're stuck with legacy browsers in existing Androids and in the non-Google-blessed world (Amazon Fire and the billion Chinese phones and tablets).
Comment linking /post/17215781807/chrome-for-android-the-browser-for-the-1
on “Introducing Chrome for Android”Submitted On Grouponzi as a story · 84 points
HN discussionPersonal opinion, but this article should be on someone's personal blog, not promoted through Hubspot. It seems after a quick Google search, Dan Lyons has stirred up quite a bit of controversy in the past, and it's probably something I would avoid getting into from a company POV. http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-wh... http://parislemon.com/post/17587323277/bat-shit-crazy
Comment linking /post/17587323277/bat-shit-crazy
on “First Victim of Amazon Drones: The Credibility of CBS and 60 Minutes”Submitted “Greater Choice” as a story · 79 points
HN discussionWell, according to the author himself, Techcrunch writers pretty much have free reign on what to write, without any posts needing "approval" before going live. Source: http://parislemon.com/post/9859907607/its-not-a-mirror-its-a...
Comment linking /post/9859907607/its-not-a-mirror-its-a-crystal-ball
on “TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over”Submitted Google X as a story · 78 points
HN discussionI'm glad some people have perspective on this issue. I remember MG Siegler's ridiculous article about why he hated Android[1] and just how furiously angry he was that they didn't deliver on some overly ambitious promise to take out the phone carriers. Yet when he (reluctantly) took the time to write about the recent Foxconn issues[2], he tried to deflect blame from Apple because they're simply an easy target conside…
Comment linking /post/16561630035/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things
on “Tim O'Reilly: Really, Google is evil now? Let's Get Real. How About Apple?”Submitted Introducing The Microsoft Puppet as a story · 59 points
HN discussionPalo Alto/Menlo Park, CA - Lead Designer - Full Time Everyme is looking for a lead designer. We're building the true social network, backed by the address book. We do an incredible amount of intensive computations, but everyone we have showed the product to is surprised by how we've managed to keep the UI beautiful, simple and focused. We like to think we're a dream home for a designer, as every one of our 5 enginee…
Comment linking /post/11647475506/your-true-social-network
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (March 2012)”Submitted Content Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink as a story · 51 points
HN discussionPalo Alto/Menlo Park, CA - Lead Designer - Full Time Everyme is looking for a lead designer. We're building the true social network, backed by the address book. We do an incredible amount of intensive computations, but everyone we have showed the product to is surprised by how we've managed to keep the UI beautiful, simple and focused. We like to think we're a dream home for a designer, as every one of our 5 enginee…
Comment linking /post/11647475506/your-true-social-network
on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2012)”Submitted On To Google Ventures as a story · 48 points
HN discussionMG responds... http://parislemon.com/post/14286785030/horseshit
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on “Horseshit - Joshua Topolsky responds to MG & Gruber ”Submitted Microsoft As The Firefox Savior? as a story · 33 points
HN discussionI find the whole thing really rather curious. I too am baffled as to why Apple has allowed this functionality from day one. I am also surprised that there has not been considerably more malicious usages of this data. Apple clearly does not enforce the the guidelines 17.1 strictly - but some developers are rejected for this. I can imagine it being possible (and I have no idea) that Apple turns a blind eye to develope…
Comment linking /post/11647475506/your-true-social-network
on “Stealing Your Address Book”Submitted Dear Google+ as a story · 29 points
HN discussionWhat about the Android fragmentation problem? In the words of MG Siegler today: " The problem is that all of these different devices require testing for each and every app. They all create a different Android experiences — some in subtle ways, some in big ways. Some run certain Android apps, others don’t. Some apps work fine on one device then are buggy as hell on another one. Sometimes this gets fixed, sometimes it…
Comment linking /post/29497373610/im-not-sure-fred-wilson-truly-understands-the-android
on “Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999”Submitted Hollywood's Next Great Business Model: Praying That Stars Die as a story · 23 points
HN discussionAs anyone who's used it knows, CB radio is very much unlike anything you can do with a smartphone[1][2], so I argue it should go in the second list at the end of the article, where the author talks about things that can't be replaced by a smartphone. [1] notice how CB radios can still be bought at major retailers such as this one, one of the largest in my country https://www.supercheapauto.com.au/4wd-recovery/uhf-cb…
Comment linking /post/18994363772/meeting-people-is-easy-remembering-them-is-hard
on “Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)”Submitted MG Siegler: On The Next Venture as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThe People & Pages feature. On Google search. Is excluding twitter.com content. Example: http://parislemon.com/post/15682237911/twitter-keeps-right-o...
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on “How rel=nofollow Works”Submitted On Bin Laden Killing Tech Blogging as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSiegler is a manchild. Look at his subtle shot at Mashable recently: http://parislemon.com/post/9951081147/hope-everyone-enjoys-t... Translation: Arrington is out, this is what you can all expect to enjoy now! (not translated: Siegler crying into his iPad plushie.)
Comment linking /post/9951081147/hope-everyone-enjoys-the-new-world-order
on “Former TechCrunch Writer Spills the Truth about TechCrunch”Submitted Horseshit - MG responds to Topolsky's rant as a story · 21 points
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