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Originally posted on May 7, 2006 @ 9:48 pm
By matt
Mashable has joined 9rules:
Mashable is a blog covering Web 2.0 startups, peer production, user-generated content, revenue sharing, social software and the web as a platform.
Originally posted on May 7, 2006 @ 9:48 pm
By matt
Weblogs, Inc. has launched AutoblogGreen, a new blog focused on green technology for automobiles:
Ah! You can all breathe deeper, now, thanks to Autoblog’s new spinoff, AutoblogGreen. Whether you’re interested in a hybrid Vespa or you’d like to investigate the many possibilities of vegetable oil-powered vehicles (even: biodiesel for the lazy man thanks to Oregon State University), or you just want to know what you’re going to do about rising gasoline prices, AutoblogGreen is here for you.
This brilliant effort by Autoblog’s John Neff and Chris Paukert is staffed by brand-new lead Sebastian Blanco and the writing talents of Bruno Vanzieleghem, Cheryl Morrissette, and the rest of the Autoblog team.
Originally posted on April 23, 2006 @ 9:55 am
By matt
A few days ago, Steve Rubel found WIN’s Blogsmith Test Blog – Blog Jovi:
There isn’t anything particularly damaging on the blog. Although it does talk a bit about knowledge sharing between the WIN teams and AOL. Still, if I were an advertiser on Weblogs Inc., it would give me pause. It’s a bit of an embarrassment to the WIN team, even if it is a good reminder for the rest of us.
I find it mostly harmless, but there is some humorous stuff on there…
Originally posted on April 30, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
By matt
I’m a bit behind the eight ball on reporting the news that b5media has reorganized its channels, because I wanted to do it justice.
Here’s a quote from their post on b5’s main site:
But channels were always about readers. Helping them find the right content for them. As we grew, though, we found that we were running into the same problems as before, particularly amongst two channels: Lifestyles and Women. The ideas for the channels were right, but what ended up happening was that anything even vaguely feminine went into Women and everything else went into Lifestyles.
So, we have reorganized the channels. We dumped some, merged others, split others and created a bunch of new ones. The change has been live in the sidebar since yesterday…
I’m a fan of channels, especially for any network large enough to have them.
In b5’s case, with a ton of blogs in their network now, organizing into channels with editors allows the editors to oversee the bloggers – helping to grow and nurture them along as their sites grow. It also enables, from a time standpoint, the founders and their key partners to focus on larger scale issues affecting the company.
Plus, the organization into channels simply makes sense…
I will be interested in seeing how this evolves over time within b5 – and how the use of these channels (or communities, as I choose to think of them) will work in a future version of b5’s main site.. or in some sort of memetracker such as Tailrank or other similar sites.
Originally posted on April 24, 2006 @ 9:08 pm
By matt
Metroblogging and Federated Media have announced a partnership:
I’m pleased to announce that FM and Metroblogging are teaming up. We’re excited to work with Sean and the team there – they’ve built a great local presence in 45 cities, and are growing very quickly. FM will be including Metroblogging in our self service platform, which launches shortly, and representing MB’s sites in our outbound sales.
Also see Sean’s announcement over at the Metroblogging site.
Originally posted on April 24, 2006 @ 8:48 pm
By matt
One of our own former sites, Poker Moments is up for sale by David and others at Sitepoint.
Originally posted on May 4, 2006 @ 5:33 am
By matt
b5media has launched Diabetes Notes:
We’re all singing the Diabetes Notes over at b5media’s Science and Health Channel today to welcome our new blogger – Rob Rummel-Hudson, the “smart guy with a dumb pancreas.”
Rob is already an acclaimed writer and blogger at Darn Tootin’ and My Beloved Monster & Me. We’re lucky to have him spend some of his time with us at Diabetes Notes where he’s already blogging up a storm reporting the latest diabetes news, trivia, and his own journey with diabetes.
Originally posted on April 26, 2006 @ 11:26 pm