On-the-rise blog network Splashpress Media has just acquired and revamped the popular CSS Star website, as announced on the outfit’s blog:

CSS Star is a free gallery of well-designed websites. The main driving force behind CSS Star is to highlight the best sites, ideas or designs made respecting quality standards. The editors behind CSS Star regularly pick a website that well-designed in terms of aesthetic and user interface.

The site is managed by Ia Lucero, one of the network’s “resident design gurus.”

Visit CSS Star.

We have added the Blorge network to our watchlist. From their About page:

BLORGE is a highly integrated network of news sites covering technology, Vista, Macintosh, gaming, photography, and much more. It was founded in October 2006 by journalist, writer and publisher John Pospisil.

Blorge consists of seven blogs. The network was launched in November 2006 and is owned and operated by Cogent Insights Pty Ltd, which is based in Sydney, Australia.

Visit the Blorge network here.

Michael Arrington of the TechCrunch fame has just expanded his online properties with TechCrunchIT. From Arrington’s announcement:

The site is focused on the enterprise tech space – all the software, technologies, standards, platforms, etc. that help companies do their thing, and form the building blocks of the products we feature on TechCrunch, MobileCrunch and our other blogs.

And from TCIT’s about page:

TCIT is dedicated to obsessively profiling products and companies in the Enterprise Technology space. TCIT aims to promote an understanding of emerging and existing Enterprise technologies and to analyze their commercial, social, and consumer impacts.

Visit TechCrunchIT.

One of Splashpress Media’s prime properties, Devlounge has been revamped, and the new design’s quite a sleek one.

From the press release:

More importantly, it was necessary for us to redesign so that Devlounge would fit better in the Splashpress network (which isn’t fully integrated yet), as well as find its new voice. You have probably noticed that we have experimented a bit with various types of content during the past month or so, and spoken directly to some of you to make sure that we’re reading things right. It’s always hard to butt in as the poor bloke in charge of a recently acquired site, especially when you haven’t bought it yourself.

Visit the spruced-up Devlounge.

b5media’s drive to strengthen its roster seems to know no bounds, as proven by two new additions in the past few days:

• Bravo Fan—“For a channel dedicated to reality programs with spunk, like Top Chef and My Life on the D-List, it’s only fitting that our writer be a spunky ball of energy too.”


• Traveling the Green Way—“Liz will have all sorts of useful, helpful, and practical information and tips to help make your travels on the planet as eco-friendly and carbon neutral as possible.”

Technorati has just launched Technorati Media, a blog advertising network.

According to TechCrunch, Technorati is for now “only working with larger blogs, although it will be open to all comers in 2-3 months.”

The new blog advertising network extends Technorati’s reach and value by “matching bloggers and social media creators with marketers who want to join the conversation,” as stated on the network’s home page.

The b5media blog network has recently added two new blogs to its stable of sites:

• Girls Dig Sports—“Lyndsey will be blogging about the world of sports from a female perspective. She’s a feisty sports fan, who is always up for a good argument.”


• eShop Owner—“A blog that focuses on buying and selling in online markets.”

Giant blogging industry player b5media has been named as one of the Finalists for “Most Promising Company of the Year” in the New Media Awards.

The network’s reaction, from their recent blog post:

Of course all I have to say about that is: This is an amazing accomplishment we could not have achieved without such amazing writers and editors. Our fearless leader Jeremy Wright was there (he was speaking) as are other b5-ers. So I expect to be able to blog the winners when they are announced.

We’re flattered and thrilled to be a finalist, and stoked about all the awesome things our bloggers are doing.

Congrats to b5media!

The Asia Blogging Network recently celebrated its first anniversary last June 6, 2008, as announced by ABN’s Budi Putra:

Personally, I want to say thanks a lot for you, AsiaBlogging readers and communities, who have supported us by visiting, reading, commenting and giving us your valuable feedbacks.

The Indonesia-based network currently covers 14 channels/topics with over 100 blogs.

The b5media blog network recently launched a new blog titled, Drinks After Dark, which is sure to earn a smattering of alcoholic-readers out there:

With a special concentration on cocktails and hard alcohol – choices that taste good and with a spackling of some very cool novelty items as they can possibly uncover.

The network also added a new section to their That Damn PC blog, nicknamed ‘IT Confessional’:

Did you ever have a bad story to tell about your office IT guy? Well, I’m sure we all have one and short of suffocating our IT admins with the mouse cord, we need some sort of release, especially if we’re using a wireless mouse. Send your blind item IT confessions.