I like you, TechCrunch. I really do — you're a great way to keep up on what's cutting-edge. And certainly you can't be blamed for nearly everyone you profile failing and going out of business — that's just the nature of bubbly bubble boosterism.

But sometimes it seems like you're just making shit up:

I expect Ether to ramp quickly towards success, and it will be extremely hard for competitors to enter the space given the capital intensive infrastructure needed to do something like this.

"Something like this" refers to Ether's gameplan: selling ad-hoc expert services over the phone. But the "capital intensive infrastructure"? That'd be, um, voice over IP. Which, it turns out, isn't very capital intensive at all these days, unless for some reason you insist on building and maintaining your PSTN gateway yourself. But why would you do that?

So yeah: lease some space in a datacenter, talk to a bank about processing credit cards, then start setting up Asterisk boxes. This ain't the Apollo program (although it's still a neat idea).