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| Dec 16, 2013 | Social TV startup Wetpaint acquired by Viggle for $30M | Wetpaint, an 8-year-old Seattle startup led by entrepreneur Ben Elowitz, has been sold to New York-based Viggle for a purchase price of $30 million.
Founded initially as a provider and network of wikis, Wetpaint pivoted over the years to cr... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Looking inside BitEnsure: Bitcoin savings account or Ponzi scheme? | Disclaimer: CoinDesk does not in any way endorse BitEnsure and is not qualified to offer financial advice. Any actions readers choose to take are at their own risk.
Update August 16, 2013:
BitEnsure has now announced that it is closing due ... |
| Oct 19, 2012 | Wetpaint Starts Licensing its Facebook-Based Media Distribution Tech | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Turns out all that celebrity gossip-mongering had a point.
Wetpaint, the well-funded Seattle digital media startup headed by Blue Nile co-founder Ben Elowitz, is now licensing... |
| Apr 4, 2012 | All the celeb gossip that’s fit to print: Wetpaint tops 10M visitors | People just can’t get enough of celebrity gossip and Hollywood scoops, which is good news for Seattle startup Wetpaint. The company announced today that its Wetpaint Entertainment unit is now attracting more than 10 million unique visitors ... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Gary Sharma’s SXSW 2012 Highlights: Jay-Z, Leo DiCaprio, Pool Parties, Grilled Cheese Eating Contests & More | Storyful's Erica Berger, ABC News' Maya Baratz, The Today Show's Rina Raphael and Fashism's Ashley Granata & Brooke Moreland hanging out at TheDaily's now epic Pool Party @ SXSW 2012. (Photo: Nick McGlynn)
This is a guest post from Gary... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Facebook’s ‘Like’ button gets new friends: ‘LOVE!’ ‘BOO!’ ‘OMG!’ and many more | Facebook’s “Like” button has become an integral part of online life, connecting sites around the web back to the social network, helping people send quick signals to their friends — and filling up Facebook’s databases with valuable informat... |
| Sep 29, 2011 | Wetpaint iPhone app feeds celeb-watching guilty pleasures | If you are looking for dirt on the cast of Gossip Girl or simply want to keep up with Kardashians, Wetpaint may have the perfect time waster for you.
The Seattle media company, which has transformed itself into a hub for celebrity news and ... |
| Sep 23, 2011 | Rewind: Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint CEO, on building a new type of media company | Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint CEO (Erynn Rose photo)
Our guest on the latest GeekWire radio show and podcast was Ben Elowitz, the CEO of Wetpaint, the Seattle company building an entertainment news and celebrity gossip network makes heavy use of Fa... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Xconomist of the Week: Ben Elowitz Goes Deep with TV Gossip, Maps the Future of Media | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
What does “Jersey Shore” star Snooki have to do with the future of online media? Plenty, it turns out.
That’s one of the surprising things I learned recently chatting with Ben... |
| Sep 17, 2011 | GeekWire Radio: Windows 8, iPhone 5, tablets on a plane, and making TV more social | Ben Elowitz, Wetpaint CEO (Erynn Rose photo)
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap Microsoft’s Windows 8 preview, talk about the latest iPhone 5 rumors, discuss a new entertainment system for airline tray tables, and ex... |
| Aug 26, 2011 | Prediction: Facebook Will Enter the Search Market Next Year | Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of media company Wetpaint, and author of the Digital Quarters blog about the future of digital media. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Nile (NILE). He is an angel investor in media and ... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | How Facebook Can Put Google Out of Business | Editor’s note: Guest author Ben Elowitz (@elowitz) is co-founder and CEO of Wetpaint, an online publisher with an audience of 10 million monthly uniques, and author of the Digital Quarters blog. Prior to Wetpaint, Elowitz co-founded Blue Ni... |
| May 25, 2011 | Seattle Goes Hollywood: Four Startups Aiming to Help Studios, Celebs Embrace the Digital Age | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When Dave Long first started pitching movie studios on a new way to market their old titles, he encountered a fair bit of skepticism. After all, what could a boardgame entrepr... |
| May 3, 2011 | What’s your secret sauce? A guide to measuring startup success | Bonanza's Alex Berg
Guest Commentary: At a startup, measuring everything is like prioritizing everything. It’s impossible, frustrating, and a recipe for failure. Instead of chasing every measurable aspect of your business, pause, narrow you... |
| Apr 28, 2011 | Surprise — TV and celeb gossip works online: Wetpaint boasts 15M monthly page views | Wetpaint’s recent transition to an entertainment and celebrity gossip site appears to be working. Surprise. Surprise. The Seattle startup, which made the switch last fall, making the transition from its wiki-based network of sites, reported... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Wetpaint’s Fast-Twitch TV Gossip Grabs 2M Uniques, New Ad Deal With Alloy Digital Network | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Wetpaint Entertainment, the social media-obsessed hive of TV fansites, is boasting a big jump in traffic and a new advertising deal to help it capitalize on a co... |
| Sep 6, 2010 | Wetpaint Rolls Out New Platform to ‘Reinvent Publishing,’ Wetpaint Entertainment | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Wetpaint has long been considered one of the Northwest’s top young tech startups. The Seattle-based company, founded in 2005, has raised $40 million from venture capitalists, ... |
| Sep 5, 2010 | As It Moves Away From The Wikis, Wetpaint Launches TV News And Entertainment Site | Online publishing company Wetpaint has been undergoing a strategic shift in its business model over the past year. Wetpaint began as a simple wiki/social publishing tool but then started to build entertainment sites for big brands, includin... |
| Jun 18, 2010 | How Seattle Startups Could Lead the World: Five Technology Themes to Watch | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As I reflect on my time in the Northwest, I find myself gravitating toward the bigger picture: which areas of technology and business innovation is this region poised to reall... |
| Jan 28, 2010 | Top 10 Reasons The Apple iPad Will Put Amazon's Kindle Out of Business | Editor’s note: Ever since yesterday’s debut of Apple’s iPad, the debate has been raging about what it means for Amazon’s Kindle. Will it kill it? Will it not? Is comparing the two like comparing a computer to a typewriter? To add fuel to th... |
| Aug 18, 2009 | 15 Fluid Apps You Can Build for Your Business | Fluid is a simple application for creating site-specific browsers (SSBs) on your OSX desktop. Fluid definitely wasn’t the first SSB project and was inspired primarily by the Mozilla Prism project.
The advantage with an SSB is that you can t... |
| Jul 26, 2009 | New study: Deep brand engagement | Social media is no longer the responsibility of a few people in the organization
I’m releasing today a new research report that I wrote in conjunction with Wetpaint called “ENGAGEMENTdb." The study looked at how the 100 most valuable b... |
| Jul 25, 2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Why Amazon Bought Zappos, IBM’s Internet of Things, The Mythical GDrive, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze why Amazon spent nearly a billion dollars to purchase online shoe shop Zappos, explain why IBM is an early leader in the Internet of ... |
| Jul 20, 2009 | New Study Finds Correlation Between Social Media and Financial Success | A new study released by enterprise wiki provider Wetpaint and the Altimeter Group shows that the brands most engaged in social media are also experiencing higher financial success rates than those of their non-engaged peers. To determine th... |
| Jul 20, 2009 | The Most Engaged Brands On The Web | What big brands do the best job with social media? A new study by analyst Charlene Li of the Altimeter Group and Wetpaint ranks the top 100 brands by social media engagement. You can find the report embedded below or on ENGAGEMENTdb, which ... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Wetpaint Teams Up With MSN | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle social-publishing startup Wetpaint announced it has formed a partnership with MSN Entertainment, a leading online network, to create more than two dozen fan sites that... |
| Apr 29, 2009 | MSN Picks WetPaint To Add A Fresh Coat To Its Entertainment Pages | MSN had a bit of a problem. It had the popular entertainment area of its service, where movies, musical acts, and other things in pop culture have pages filled with content for fans. But the problem was that paying people to populate these ... |
| Apr 22, 2009 | Mpire Makes Strategic Shift, Unveils Ad-Optimizing Service | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Mpire is rolling out a new online-ad optimizing service today, aimed at letting advertisers, marketers, and publishers more accurately assess how well their ads ... |
| Apr 17, 2009 | A Tale of Two Startups: Picnik and Wetpaint, Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Earlier this week, we heard that two of Seattle’s most promising Internet startups have teamed up to deliver sophisticated photo editing services to a growing pool of social-n... |
| Apr 13, 2009 | Picnik, Wetpaint Team Up on Photos | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle-based Picnik, a maker of Web-based photo editing software, announced today it has teamed up with fellow Seattle startup Wetpaint, a social publishing site, to allow so... |
| Mar 26, 2009 | Ontela, Visible, Wetpaint Win WTIA Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The 14th annual WTIA Industry Achievement Awards were announced last night at the Paramount Theater in downtown Seattle. The winning companies, as determined by online communi... |
| Mar 24, 2009 | Whiskey Media Quietly Growing, Innovating With Former CNET Team | Former CNET cofounder and CEO Shelby Bonnie founded Whiskey Media in 2007 as a platform to build media and entertainment content sites. The company, located in stunningly beautiful Sausalito, California (north of San Francisco) has no outsi... |
| Jan 29, 2009 | From Starbucks to Startups: Rob Grady’s Take on What Coffee and Web 2.0 Have in Common | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Coffee is so last year. Just ask Rob Grady, the former Starbucks executive who joined Seattle-based social publishing startup Wetpaint as senior vice president of marketing ea... |
| Jan 26, 2009 | Apptio, LiquidPlanner, Ontela, Pet Holdings, Picnik, Wetpaint Among Finalists for WTIA Industry Achievement Awards | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The first round of voting is done. This morning, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) announced the finalists for its 14th annual Industry Achievement Awards.... |
| Dec 17, 2008 | Vampires, Smartphones, and Social Activism: Which Websites Were Hot in 2008 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s not just Facebook, MySpace, and Wikipedia anymore. A large number of social websites and wikis have become major players on the Web. Today’s launch of the Seattle-based c... |
| Nov 12, 2008 | Long Live Microsoft, Farewell Yahoo, and Flat Is the New Up: A Panel of Predictions for 2009 | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Everyone loves a good prediction. Well, last night there were many of them. I attended the Washington Technology Industry Association’s “Predictions for 2009” dinner event at ... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | Why Wetpaint Went from Wikis to Social Publishing—the Next Step in Social Networks | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Back in the summertime, we did a short piece about Wetpaint, the Seattle-based Web startup that had just surpassed its 1-millionth-consumer-wiki milestone. Wetpaint is one of ... |
| Sep 30, 2008 | Groupswim Adds Wikis, APIs, and More | GroupSwim is a company whose SaaS collaboration solution uses semantic technology to automatically tag and rate content including discussions, emails, documents, wikis, and more. As an Enterprise 2.0 Launch Pad finalist, the company was hon... |
| Sep 6, 2008 | Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries | If you were interviewing someone for a position with your company and they admitted that they didn’t know anything about the new trends and innovations taking place in their field, what would you think? Likely, what you would think is “next... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | At One Million Wikis and Counting, Wetpaint Wants To Make Every Website Social | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When I first arrived in Seattle a few months ago, I’d already heard a lot about Wetpaint. Called “stars in the consumer wiki space” and a “power to the people” company by Jude... |
| Jul 10, 2008 | Top-Ranked Web Startups Don’t Get the Most Funding, Says Founder of Sampa | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Earlier this week I saw Marcelo Calbucci’s monthly “Seattle Startup Index” on his blog, Seattle 2.0, and I was a bit puzzled. There are 299 local websites on his list, ranked ... |
| May 24, 2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 May 2008 | Here are some of the highlights from the week’s Web Tech action on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we explored: next gen apps outside the browser, uses for wikis, Facebook’s usefulness (or lack thereof), the public launch of Google Health... |
| May 19, 2008 | Wikis Are Now Serious Business | Only a handful of years ago, it was common to hear people laugh at Wikipedia. Anyone can edit it! How could you take it seriously? These days, just as blogs are, wikis are on their way to winning a reputation as serious publishing platforms... |
| May 18, 2008 | With new release and new funding, Wetpaint wants to “wikify” the web | updated
Since its launch in 2006, software from a Seattle startup called Wetpaint has been used to build nearly a million wikis where a company’s customers and fans create the content. That’s pretty impressive, but Wetpaint chief executive ... |
| May 18, 2008 | Wetpaint Raises $25 Million and Launches Wetpaint Injected | Big news tonight from Seattle based wiki/social networks startup Wetpaint (we covered their growth spurt last week): they’ve raised a $25 million third round of financing, bringing the total amount of capital raised to nearly $40 million, a... |
| May 13, 2008 | Wetpaint Emerging As A Leading Social Publishing Platform | Seattle based wiki startup Wetpaint has always been ahead of the pack in terms of design and usability. Now, a couple of years after launch, they’re starting to see real usage traction as well.
The product isn’t just about wikis – they also... |
| Apr 22, 2008 | Grou.ps: All Your Collaboration Tools In One Place | There’s seemingly no end to the number of collaboration tools out there: blogs, wikis, forums, bookmarking, photos, chat. Chances are you already use one or more of them already to keep in touch with friends or coworkers. The only problem i... |
| Apr 3, 2008 | OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID | You’ve heard a lot about OpenID, the decentralized framework for authenticating users across the web. OpenID is convenient for end users, allowing them to login to numerous web sites using one set of credentials – their OpenID. But how is O... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | WetPaint Preparing Embeddable Wiki Product Called Balco | Seattle based wiki-startup Wetpaint has been talking to a number of big content sites about a new product they’ll be releasing soon, we’ve heard. The screen shot above is a mock-up that Wetpaint is using to pitch potential partners.
The pro... |
| Jan 24, 2008 | Grouply Brings A Bit Of Facebook To Yahoo/Google Groups | Grouply is a startup trying to improve the online “groups” systems (Yahoo/Google Groups) currently used by over 100 million registered users. Their first goal was to create a simple management tool for easily tracking updates across your gr... |
| Nov 7, 2007 | Wetpaint Combines Discussion Forums With Wikis | Seattle-based Wetpaint, which launched in June 2006, is a hosted wiki site that focuses on great looking sites and making the user interface as easy as possible. A number of wikis have popped up around popular pop culture stuff, as well as ... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | The World Of Wikis | WetPaint, a popular hosted Wiki solution, announced this week that they are to provide person-to-person and private messaging between users of their Wiki network. This means that Wetpaint Wiki users can now send single or multi-person priva... |
| Feb 23, 2007 | Wikimania — Pbwiki the latest wiki company | Just when you thought there were too many lightweight wiki companies around, another one is emerging with momentum.
Pbwiki has raised $2 million more from Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture firm, as has been reported elsewhere.... |
| Jan 9, 2007 | Wetpaint raises $9.5M for consumer wikis, meanwhile Jot is absent | Wetpaint, the Seattle start-up that lets people build Wikis — or sites where multiple people can edit the same pages — has raised $9.5 million to grab more market share.
The move comes after Google bought popular Wiki site, Jotspot, last ye... |
| Jan 8, 2007 | More Money For Wikis | After JotSpot sold to Google for $50+ million, it didn’t take a rocket scientist to realize venture capitalists would be dabbling a bit more in this space. So I am not at all surprised to report that Wetpaint, the Seattle based wiki company... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | Social Networking: Time For A Silver Bullet | Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard
MacManus. Note: there is also a poll at end of this post, which we invite you to participate in.
MySpace is booming in popularity; Facebook is gracing the
headlines again; Bebo is growing
incred... |
| Jul 20, 2006 | Tom Cole, VC with Trinity, starts yummy blog | Tom Cole, a venure capitalist with Trinity Ventures has launched a blog about food, cool places to eat around Silicon Valley and is dropping names while he does it. It is called Consuming Ambitions.
We commend him for the different approach... |
| Jun 18, 2006 | Wetpaint Launches: Wikis Evolve | Seattle based Wetpaint has been in private beta since March. On Sunday night they launched to the world, allowing anyone to create a free wiki on any topic.
A good example wiki is this one around the XBOX 360. Like pbwiki, Wikia and JotSpot... |
| Mar 6, 2006 | Wetpaint: wikis for regular people | Wetpaint is a “next-generation” wiki service for the masses. It launches today with the goal of appealing to everyday people who want to build collaborative communities online. Pet lovers, car enthusiasts, school clubs. This is the market t... |
| Mar 6, 2006 | Wetpaint – Best Wiki So Far? | Seattle-based Wetpaint opened its doors today to show off a few sample sites that use its new, super-slick wiki platform.
You can get a good overview of how users interact with wiki’s built on the platform by going through the rather tediou... |