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| May 1, 2010 | ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 1 May 2010 | We’ve been plugging it for months, and now it’s finally here: the ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010. It’s not too late to sign up. We’d love to have you join us. It’s going to be the premier place to explore the latest mobile development tren... |
| Sep 26, 2008 | Blogging Dream Team Joins Forces to Challenge Engadget, TreeHugger and More | A team of leading bloggers from the early days of AOL-acquired Weblogs Inc. has come together again to build their ideal blogging software and raise a new network of blogs to challenge top sites in personal electronics, eco-awareness and ot... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz? | Since our initial review of Yahoo! Buzz earlier this year, not much has changed about the service. At the same time, however, the perception, acceptance, and impact of the service has changed drastically. The service has shown that it can s... |
| Jul 31, 2008 | AOL Tells Angry Blogger Staff: Everything is Fantastic | AOL Senior VP of Programming Marty Moe held a conference call for all the bloggers in the Weblogs Inc. network this afternoon, a week after cutbacks and work slowdowns across the network put staff into a panic and shed a negative light on t... |
| Sep 23, 2007 | AOL Quietly Cans Weblogs Inc Life Sciences Blogs | AOL quietly canceled the Life Sciences blogs of Weblogs Inc last week, bringing the total number of blogs canceled to 60% higher than the number of blogs still operating.
Blogs canceled included the Weblogs Inc titles The Cancer Blog, The D... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | Top 5 Hottest Product Launches of 2007 | So far in 2007 we’ve seen some exceptional web app launches. From video to
micro-blogging, new startups have transformed the web landscape. So what defines a ‘hot
launch’? Obviously, a great product is essential, but also the ability to gen... |
| Nov 21, 2006 | Blogger Wars: How Jason Calacanis Gets Even | Nick Denton (pictured left) likes to use his blog Valleywag to take shots at competitors – his most recent attack was on Jason Calacanis (on right), who founded and then cashed out of the blog network Weblogs, Inc. Denton has always played ... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | Netscape.com Reborn as Digg Rival | Confirming rumors first reported in March, AOL relaunched Netscape.com on Thursday as a user driven news site much like the popular Digg.com. Headed by Jason Calcanis, the new Netscape aims to build on social networking concepts first broug... |
| Nov 6, 2005 | Creative Weblogging raises cash, and competitor’s ire | Creative Weblogging, a Palo Alto start-up that groups together 45 blogs in a network, said Wednesday it had raised an “undisclosed” amount of money from angels.
Torsten Jacobi
In his announcement, chief executive Torsten Jacobi also referre... |
| Oct 6, 2005 | Kudos to Brian and Jason | I’ve known Jason Calacanis since early 1996 and have watched him build a number of businesses only to come up mostly empty.
Jason is controversial, scrappy, and not universally loved to say it nicely. But I have always been impressed with t... |
| Oct 6, 2005 | America Online Acquires Weblogs, Inc. | Taking a major step forward in embracing blogs as a new medium for content, America Online on Thursday announced it will acquire the popular Weblogs, Inc. blog network. Among the 85 blogs to become part of the AOL family are Engadget, Autob... |
| Oct 5, 2005 | AOL Acquires Weblogs, Inc. | There are reports that AOL has acquired Weblogs, Inc. and will officially announce it later this week. The acquisition price, including earnouts, is reported to be $20-35 million.
Weblogs, Inc., founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey wa... |
| Aug 9, 2005 | Profile – MSN Filter | Company: MSN Filter
Launched: August 2, 2005 Overview:
MSN Filter is the latest MSN product release from Microsoft. Filter is a blogging network similar to Weblogs, Inc. (profile) and Gawker – meaning they have hired bloggers to blog about ... |
| Jun 30, 2005 | Blogging 1.0 (continued) | Possibly my most popular post ever was one called Blogging 1.0.
It got 20 trackbacks and god only knows how many more links.
It was a long missive about the early experiments in "citizen’s media" like Geocities and About.com.
I wr... |
| Jun 27, 2005 | Weblogs, Inc. adds Spanish & Japanese sites | Company: Weblogs, Inc.
Previous Profile: June 20, 2005 (Link)
What’s new?
Weblogs, Inc. has launched Spanish, Chinese and Japanese versions of it’s popular blog engadget.
Screen Shots:
Relevant Links:
Jason Calcanis on Chinese engadget
Blog... |
| Jun 20, 2005 | Profile: Weblogs, Inc. | Company: Weblogs, Inc.
Founded: September 24, 2003
Location:
Weblogs, Inc.
2200 Colorado Avenue, Suite 729
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Phone: 310-828-8284
Fax: 310-861-0600
or
Weblogs, Inc.
The Chrysler Building
132 East 43rd Street, Suite 1000
... |
| Jun 2, 2005 | RSS Ripoff Merchants | NB: This is a re-posting, slightly edited.
What would you do if someone was ripping your RSS feed off – that is, copying every single post into their website? And what would you think if some software companies actively encouraged this acti... |
| Feb 21, 2005 | Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 14-20 Feb 2005 | A look back at the week that was in the world of Web 2.0. This week: Google’s AutoLinks feature, IE7, NY Times buys About.com, more Big Media blogging coverage, Bloglines hacks. AutoLinks and Annotation
Ever since Google made it big, many p... |
| Feb 8, 2005 | Blogging 1.0 | A couple recent blog posts and my lunch today took me back in time to blogging 1.0, circa 1996/1997.
Jeff Jarvis blogged today that the New York Times Company is the front runner to purchase About.com from Primedia.
And Brad Feld blogged ye... |
| Apr 20, 2004 | Will Blogging Be Big? | I was talking to Greg Lindsay today, who used to write for Inside.com – which, sadly, was one of my less successful investments.
He is working on a story for a business magazine which will go unnamed that asks the question that everyone see... |
| Sep 26, 2003 | He's Back | Well the blogging world is talking about Jason Calcanis this week.
Nick Denton http://www.nickdenton.org/ and Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/ are both talking about his Weblogs Inc. http://www.weblogsinc.com on their weblogs.
So are... |