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.

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.”

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.

b5media’s Business Channel received a boost with the arrival of Health Care Insiders, a blog that “examines the tricky issues surrounding the health care industry in today’s world”. The new blog will be co-authored by two bloggers who will take “a hard look at health care under the microscope, focusing on the issues that we all care about.”

Visit Health Care Insiders.

Two days are all that it took for blogging giant b5media to introduce two new sites:

• Viva El Negocio—“Aill keep the Spanish speaking business community “in the know” with news, commentary and tips in their native tongue. It is a first for the channel – and for the network”


• The South Florida Traveler—“Will bring you the inside scoop about what’s going on in South Florida, in between all the time she’s spending trying out new restaurants, tasting wine, and being pampered at the spa”

The press release we received from the yaBloggy network:

yaBloggy Network launched new ChicChannel, including 3 cool blogs about fashion, glam and chic:

• ChicLooking (our new blog about beauty, makeup and cosmetics)


• ChicBuying (our new blog about shopping)


• ChicShaping (our new blog about health and fitness)

The b5media blogging network has recently opened two entertainment blogs:

• Handheld Age—“While handheld games are physically small, they generate big fun and big news. Handheld Age covers all your portable gaming needs, from the Nintendo DS to the Sony PSP, and just about any handheld gaming system that ever made it this side of Game Boy.”


• Grrl TV—“All about the fabulous women holding strong roles on television, in everything from Army Wives to Lipstick Jungle to some new shows such as Fringecoming this fall. With spoilers and recaps, show news and more, Grrl TV will bring you all the latest on some of the best shows on television.”

Splashpress Media has recently retooled 17 of their sites, including:

• Biziki


• Parenting Blog


• Study Driving


• Downloading Legally


• Biz Crunch


• The Health Blog


• Zero Value

For the full list (and background info) of the relaunched properties, read the SP Media press release.

Blog network b5media has welcomed three blogs to its fold over the past few days:

• Sega Nerds—“the only place you need to visit to get all your Sega news, reviews, previews, and more!”


• Robust Cooking—“will be focusing on healthy cooking, eating, menu planning with a particular focus on diabetes and other health conditions that require special dieting”


• Mom Gadget—“introductions to gadgets that make mom’s life a little simpler, conducting more giveaways and dishing up more entertaining and informative reviews”