TechCrunch TV will go live next month. Broadcasting online (and soon possibly elsewhere) 24 hours a day, the channel’s focus will be on the people behind the stories you read on TC every day: the entrepreneurs, developers, venture capitalists, angels and assorted geniuses who are building companies from Silicon Valley to Serbia and beyond.

Is Paul Carr trying to make sure I never do a tap of work? With the right presenters, this could be fabulous.

But only as long as it has no involvement from the usual suspects.

I also know a few guys who would love to be the Irish correspondents for some shows. “Come in Silicon Valley, this is Silicon Bog calling”.

TechCrunch TV could be Glee for Geeks, including the singing and dancing. But who will be Jane Lynch and can Paul Carr sing?

Under the proposed Directive, VCs will be required to disclose a lot more information, which is likely to cost as much as €100,000 annually per investee company. The Directive also imposes much greater capital requirements on venture firms, even as funds are shrinking to reflect the ease of creating startups now. VCs will also have to use outside depositaries (i.e. custodians) and independent valuation agents, again, adding cost and complexity.

Deadline is tonight.

To support a petition against it, send an mail to replies@evca.eu stating name, company name, HQ location. Use the subject line “Entrepreneur Petition against AIFM Directive”

Thanks to Mike Butcher for highlighting this. Read the full story at the link above.

So when you click the new “Like” Facebook button, being very helpful and all, Facebook will update your permanent profile with your new like.

I’m still digesting all of the announcements from Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday. Lots of brilliant stuff in there which has me excited. Interesting contrast to the catastrophe that was Google Buzz.

There is some work for us to switch from Facebook Connect by the looks of things but no biggie.

This post from Ed Dale is incredibly important and I have to admit I missed the key news too. The new Facebook “Like” buttons, that you can expect to see everywhere very soon, do something which increases the value of Facebook as an Ad platform by several orders of magnitude. They update your profile.

Like everyone else, I thought it was a Wall thing (and question whether people want their Wall to be a long list of product/site pimpages). But the buttonsd actually update your permanent profile that you filled out initially (interests/likes etc).

So when those of us who do Ads on Facebook want to demographically target people, we now have up-to-date detailed information based on your explicit recent “Like” activity, not the few interests (“Music”, “Hummus”) you thought of two years ago when you joined Facebook or when you clicked “Skip” during that part of the sign-up process.

This is a very very very powerful change and if I was the Google AdWords team, I would now be officially soiling myself.

Read the rest of Ed’s post for more detail and thoughts.

It should be pretty simple to port forward to the iPhone 3G. The 3GS will take more work. Hopefully with all this groundwork laid out, we can make Android a real alternative or supplement for iPhone users. Maybe we can finally get Flash.

Android running on iPhone!

Why? Why? Because it’s there.

How can you not love hackers?

I’ve been sharing links to Scott Adams strips since the mid-1990s.

In fact, in Integral Design, my entire cubicle was covered in the best ones from his calendars. Yes, sad I know.

But then Matt, who worked with me, built a wall of coke cans in his cube.

Good times.

THE BEHAVIOUR OF the institutional Catholic church in Ireland and around the world is certainly a stark example of both of these truths. But it is not the only example, even in contemporary Ireland. The Irish Amateur Swimming Association, for example, gave coaches the power to do what they liked to children and then engaged in a process of denial that was, albeit on a much smaller scale, essentially the same as that of the bishops.

The problem is not swimming, any more than it is Catholicism. It is power.

Fintan’s utter predictability on any topic and John Water’s claptrap were two of the main reasons I stopped buying the Irish Times every day a few years back.

But this piece just nails it. A perfect summary of the root cause of the problem. A direct riposte to those who think this is about believers vs secularists.

The aim of 1 in 1000 – Running for Cystic Fibrosis, is to get 1000 women to participate in the Flora Mini Marathon on 7 June 2010.

We are asking each women to get at least €200 in sponsorship which will enable 1 in 1000 to raise the sum of €200,000 required to fit out and equip a new four bed Cystic Fibrosis unit in Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin.

Great cause. Ireland has the highest rate of CF in the world.

If you can’t donate, why not go one step further and sign-up to be an organ donor? Sign your driver’s licence and/or grab a card in any pharmacy.

The Startup Pass includes
3 tickets for the price of 2 – All 3 tickets must be booked at the same time
Free FOWA Dublin micro sponsorship (worth €100)
Your link + 140 characters, emailed to all attendees one week before the conference
Automatic entry into the Start Up Pitch panel
5 lucky winners will get to pitch their web app to the panel of speakers and audience
Your company name and url displayed throughout the breaks on the main screen
A great way to get your web app known and talked about

Last year’s first ever FOWA Dublin was a massive success that was completely jam-packed and had people still talking about it weeks later.

This is a fantastic opportunity for Irish startups and you should grab it with both hands.

Damn I wish I was in Dublin tomorrow. It’s on at 8.30pm and you can book on the link above. All the reviews are raving about it.