When I saw the title I thought it had to be fake, but it's true. This may be the first time I've seen "positive" and "uncov" used together.

Yeah I thought the two were mutually exclusive...

Perhaps this comment on the Uncov article explains it:

"subtext: persai is going to launch soon...crap, better start making some friends"

I haven't been in SF long but I find it fascinating how much people care about the valley popularity contest. Nobody, including Ted needs to be friends with the whole bay area to make a great company. Startups are about great products and customers who somehow pay for them. In the end VC's and customers don't care if everyone likes you or not. I understand the need to create a buzz but too much stock is given to what amounts to glad-handing, over-networking, pseudo-friends.

Friends are useful. You might want to go back and read the story of iLike's scaling issues when the Facebook API came out. If everyone hated them, no one would've lent them servers, and they wouldn't have benefited from all the free exposure that got them.

He treated scribd alright too: http://www.uncov.com/2007/4/26/scribd-you-re-alright

I didn't know Uncov did positive. I'm kind of tempted to bring back doomedstartup.com.

why do people read uncov?

Man. Uncov makes me laugh extremely hard every time there is a new post. Its funny, and thats why I read it (laff=goodforthesoul). Ted has a sense of humor that makes you think. After his beatdown of Zoho, I was hooked.

Quite true. Lots of people try the angry rant schickt, but most come off as merely vulgar and cranky/whiny.

uncov makes it work. It's funny and true.

i dare you to browse all the posts and I bet you'll agree with the theme of at least one post, maybe not the language, but the theme.

If your not at all cynical - i'd probably stay away.