Battelle's FM Publishing closes funding round

Grok Headline matches for Battelle's FM Publishing closes funding round

Narad closes round of $17.5m in funding

Narad closes round of $17.5m in funding 01/12/2004 03:02 AM
Boston Globe Jan 12 2004 2:44AM ET

3G Player Closes $26 Million Funding
Round

3G Player Closes $26 Million Funding
Round 03/29/2005 05:04 AM
3G Mar 29 2005 7:58AM GMT

3G Player Secures 3rd Round Funding

3G Player Secures 3rd Round Funding 12/04/2003 09:37 AM
3G Dec 4 2003 8:26AM ET

Saw-You Completes Funding Round With
Benchmark Capital

Saw-You Completes Funding Round With
Benchmark Capital 03/24/2005 04:43 AM
Mobile social networking company Saw-You Ltd., creators of the 'Weemee' has completed a new multi-million dollar round of investment from the European fund of Benchmark Capital. [PRWEB Mar 24, 2005]

NewsGator Technologies Inc. Completes
Third Round of Funding

NewsGator Technologies Inc. Completes
Third Round of Funding 06/06/2005 12:05 AM

Company has raised over $10 million to-date; capital to be used for Enterprise RSS expansion

DENVER, CO— April 20, 2005 — NewsGator Technologies, Inc., the leading RSS software platform company, announced today that it has closed a third round of funding led by Masthead Venture Partners and with continuing support from existing investor Mobius Venture Capital.  This brings the total capital raised by the company since June of 2004 to over $10 million.

J.B. Holston, President and CEO of NewsGator, said, “We’re very gratified at the continued support from Mobius, and extremely pleased to begin working with Masthead Venture Partners as well.  Masthead’s partnership represents a powerful blend of technology and media industry expertise, which will be invaluable as we continue to build NewsGator.”  Greg Reinacker, NewsGator’s Founder and Chief Technical Officer, added, “We’re excited to be rolling out our enterprise RSS strategy over the coming months…and this third round of funding gives us the necessary capital to deliver on our vision for this industry segment.“

Rich Levandov of Masthead said, “We are excited about our partnership with NewsGator.  NewsGator is in the vanguard of companies leading the RSS revolution.  Not just for bloggers, RSS can transform the way that all information is created, aggregated, and delivered.  Companies will be able to ‘RSS’ any content they want.  RSS feeds and dynamic content will become necessary and integral parts of an effective modern enterprise, and NewsGator is ready to lead this emerging market.”

Brad Feld of Mobius said, “Masthead is a terrific partnership.  We’ve worked with some of their principals in the past, and know their experience will leverage NewsGator’s industry-leading position significantly.  We initially funded NewsGator in June of 2004; this round is another sign of the progress the company continues to make. “

NewsGator will be rolling out a wide range of enterprise solutions over the next few months, with an ever-growing number of customers and partners.  This financing will be used to continue development on this industry-leading RSS platform, and to keep up with exploding customer demand.  A huge number of end-users, and the media companies and enterprises that support them, are turning to subscriptions via RSS as the most efficient means to manage information overload, and turning to NewsGator as the acknowledged leader in providing the platform to enable these relationships. 

About NewsGator Technologies

NewsGator Technologies is the leading RSS software platform company.  Consumers, business, and enterprise customers can subscribe to NewsGator’s services and read all their news in Outlook, on the web, on their mobile phones, and through a rich array of other devices, anytime, anywhere. For more information, visit us on the web at http://www.newsgator.com. 

About Masthead Venture Partners

Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Masthead Venture Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to providing early stage information technology, Internet infrastructure and services, communications, and IT-intensive life sciences companies with the capital and hands-on operational support they need to develop into industry leaders. The firm has the advanced technical expertise, proven operating experience and deep industry knowledge and relationships to help entrepreneurs build companies with category defining potential.  For more information please visit www.mvpartners.com.

About Mobius Venture Capital

With offices in Palo Alto, California and Superior, Colorado, Mobius Venture Capital is a $1.5 billion U.S.-based private equity venture capital firm managed by a team of former CEOs and entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, senior executives from major technology corporations, and leaders in the investment banking community. Mobius Venture Capital combines its technology expertise and broad financial assets with the industry's best entrepreneurs to create a portfolio of over 100 of the world's leading high technology companies. For more information on the fund's investment team, technology vision and portfolio companies, please visit www.mobiusvc.com.

eASIC Raises $5 Million in Third Round
of Funding from Kleiner ...

eASIC Raises $5 Million in Third Round
of Funding from Kleiner ... 05/28/2004 06:27 PM
TMCnet-1 hour ago ... we are honored and challenged by the track record of their previous investments in companies such as Sun, AOL, Netscape, Amazon, Juniper, Genentech and Google ...

NewsGator Technologies, Developer of
Leading RSS Tools and Services, Closes
Series A Funding

NewsGator Technologies, Developer of
Leading RSS Tools and Services, Closes
Series A Funding 06/23/2004 01:24 AM

Funding to be used for Product Development, Marketing, and Sales

DENVER, CO - June 23, 2004 - NewsGator Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of content aggregation tools and services, announced today that it has closed a round of funding with Mobius Venture Capital.

"We are thrilled to have Mobius Venture Capital as an investor," said Greg Reinacker, CEO of NewsGator Technologies. "This funding is a necessary step to deliver on our vision for products and services in this market much more quickly."

The funding will be used to accelerate the development process for the NewsGator product line, as well as expand the marketing and corporate sales groups. There are significant enhancements planned for the existing suite of products, and additional products planned for the popular NewsGator Online Services platform.

"We have been aggressively exploring the universe enabled by the rapid adoption of RSS-based technologies since the beginning of the year," said Bradley Feld, Managing Director at Mobius Venture Capital. "We felt that NewsGator Technologies currently is the market leader in the emerging content aggregation and services segment. With this investment, we intend to help NewsGator Technologies expand their product set and market position in both consumer and enterprise content aggregation segments."

While its first product NewsGator for Outlook has received the most acclaim to-date, NewsGator Technologies offers a portfolio of services for consumers and business. The desktop product NewsGator for Outlook is a news aggregator that runs in Microsoft Outlook, which allows users to subscribe to syndicated RSS news feeds to be delivered directly into their Microsoft Outlook and Exchange server folders.

NewsGator Online Services provides content aggregation tools and services, allowing users to find the content they need, and read it wherever they are, on any device.  NewsGator Online Services offers numerous options for users, including the ability for users to read content from a web browser, through a POP3 account or on their mobile wireless device, which is a powerful option for road warriors who use mobile devices to access information while away from home or the office. The latest product, NewsGator Media Center Edition, allows users to view syndicated multimedia content feeds on their TV with Windows XP Media Center Edition.

About Mobius Venture Capital

With offices in Palo Alto, California and Superior, Colorado, Mobius Venture Capital is a $2 billion U.S.-based private equity venture capital firm managed by a team of former CEOs and entrepreneurs, technology pioneers, senior executives from major technology corporations, and leaders in the investment banking community. Mobius Venture Capital combines its technology expertise and broad financial assets with the industry's best entrepreneurs to create a portfolio of over 100 of the world's leading high technology companies. For more information on the fund's investment team, technology vision and portfolio companies, please visit www.mobiusvc.com.

NewsGator Closes Second Finance Round &
Expands Leadership Team

NewsGator Closes Second Finance Round &
Expands Leadership Team 12/19/2004 03:38 PM

DENVER, CO - December 1, 2004 - NewsGator Technologies, the RSS Aggregation Platform company, announced today that it has completed a second round of financing and rounded out its senior leadership team by adding a new Executive Vice President of Sales & Business Development and Vice President of Finance and Administration.

NewsGator has closed a substantial second round of equity financing with Mobius Venture Capital, which also provided the company's Series A capital. "We're thrilled to continue to work closely with NewsGator to help expand them as the primary RSS platform company," said Mobius Venture Capital's Brad Feld. "They've accomplished a great deal in a small amount of time on limited resources; we're very excited to partner with a great team to accelerate that leadership in this exploding industry."

NewsGator also announced two additional hires to round out their senior management team. Sandy Hamilton has joined NewsGator as Executive Vice President with responsibility for sales and business development and Mark Nass will act as Vice President of Finance and Administration.

J.B. Holston, NewsGator's President and CEO, said, "We're extremely fortunate to add two senior executives with Sandy and Mark's breadth and depth of experience to our leadership team. Sandy has a proven track record delivering revenue and expanding markets for a wide range of technology firms, and Mark has a deep background in administration, finance, and general management. Their decisions to join NewsGator are a strong vote of confidence in our future in the RSS marketplace."

Hamilton recently served as Executive Vice President of EYT, formerly Ernst & Young Technologies. Prior to that, he served two years as Senior Vice President of Qwest Cyber Solutions, an enterprise class ASP for mission critical applications. Qwest Cyber Solutions was a joint venture between Qwest Communications and KPMG Consulting. Sandy brings nearly twenty-five years of Fortune 500 marketing and strategic development experience to NewsGator.

Mark Nass spent the last eight years with SmartTalk, Inc. in Boulder, Colorado, most recently as CEO. He has over 20 years of management, financial and accounting experience in both private and public companies, including HBOC, CliniCom, Inc., and Peterbilt Motors Company.

NewsGator has a number of cutting-edge content management/aggregation offerings, including NewsGator's free Online Service, which is its consumer state-of-the art web-based aggregator, where users can track all their favorite RSS and news feeds online at no charge. In addition to its free Online Service, NewsGator sells NewsGator for Outlook, which allows users to access and synchronize all their RSS feeds through Microsoft Outlook. The company also sells a range of premium services on a monthly subscription basis.

Oxford Performance Materials Completes
$2 Million Dollar Funding Round

Oxford Performance Materials Completes
$2 Million Dollar Funding Round 08/22/2004 02:22 AM
Oxford Performance Materials, Inc., (OPM) announced today it has completed a $2 million dollar Series A preferred stock financing round in order to accelerate market development of it�s proprietary high performance ultra pure polymer technology known as OXPEKK�. [PRWEB Aug 22, 2004]

Optyan Networks Closes $5 Million
Financing Round Led By Shriver Capital
Partners.

Optyan Networks Closes $5 Million
Financing Round Led By Shriver Capital
Partners. 09/10/2004 03:30 AM
Optyan Networks will use the additional capital to continue development and distribution of its core voice and data soft switch, technologies and services. The company -- Is currently working with several US and international telecommunication companies for a beta product to be released in Q2 of 2005. [PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]

eASIC Raises $5 Million in Third Round
of Funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers

eASIC Raises $5 Million in Third Round
of Funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byers 05/31/2004 02:07 PM
eASIC received $5M funding from KPC&B and Vinod Khosla, KPCB Partner is Joining eASIC Board of Directors. [PRWEB May 30, 2004]

NextIO Extends Series A Funding Round to
Include Additional Investment By Dell

NextIO Extends Series A Funding Round to
Include Additional Investment By Dell 01/27/2004 02:29 AM
dBusinessNews.com Jan 27 2004 6:40AM GMT

Protonex Increases Second Round Funding
to $11 Million-Portable Fuel Cell
Company Also Adds Board Members

Protonex Increases Second Round Funding
to $11 Million-Portable Fuel Cell
Company Also Adds Board Members 06/17/2005 02:39 PM
Protonex Technology Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high performance fuel cell power systems for portable and remote applications, announced that it has increased its previously announced second round of institutional funding from $9 million to $11 million. The additional $2 million in funding was provided by Venture Capital Fund of New England (VCFNE), Yellowstone Energy Ventures, L.P. and Parker Hannifin Corporation; Parker Hannifin also participated in the initial $9 million round that closed on April 1, 2005. [PRWEB Jun 9, 2005]

Bharosa, Inc., the First Web-based
Solution to Offer Comprehensive
Protection against Online Identity Theft
Announces First Round Funding and
Initial Customers

Bharosa, Inc., the First Web-based
Solution to Offer Comprehensive
Protection against Online Identity Theft
Announces First Round Funding and
Initial Customers 04/18/2005 02:46 AM
Bharosa v.Crypt� users manipulate images to create and send data in specific ways known only to the user and their institution offering superior protection against the rising risks of Phishing, Trojan and Proxy-based attacks. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

Upstream Engineering Closes Seed
Investment Round, Prepares To Launch
Optical Technology That Enables World�s
Smallest Data Projectors

Upstream Engineering Closes Seed
Investment Round, Prepares To Launch
Optical Technology That Enables World�s
Smallest Data Projectors 09/02/2004 02:32 AM
Funds managed by Holtron Ventures Ltd. and Finnish Industry Investment Ltd. today agreed on a seed investment round in Upstream Engineering, a developer of advanced optical technology enabling data projectors the size of a matchbox. The investment will be used to finance the development of optical technology into commercial products. [PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]

Fathammer Closes Investment Round with
Nexit Ventures and 3i to Strengthen
Technology and Expand Game Production on
the Fast Growing Wireless Gaming Market

Fathammer Closes Investment Round with
Nexit Ventures and 3i to Strengthen
Technology and Expand Game Production on
the Fast Growing Wireless Gaming Market 09/09/2004 03:44 AM
Nexit Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on next generation information and communication technologies, and 3i, Europe's leading private equity and venture capital company, today announced an investment in Fathammer, a leader in advanced mobile gaming. Nexit Ventures co-lead the investment round of 4 million euros with 3i, a previous investor of Fathammer. The investment will be used to intensify Fathammer�s sales and marketing efforts globally, especially in fast-growing Asian markets. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Senior Publishing Executive Joins
World's Largest Online Library - Hiring
of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard
Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for
Questia�s Content Acquisition

Senior Publishing Executive Joins
World's Largest Online Library - Hiring
of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard
Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for
Questia�s Content Acquisition 06/03/2004 02:08 AM
Publishing industry insider, Richard Koffler, joins Questia, the world's largest online library, to aggressively grow the Questia collection of 49,000 books and 390,000 articles. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]

Battelle's 17 predictions

Battelle's 17 predictions 12/24/2004 12:55 PM

Here' s what John Battelle is saying is gonna happen next year.

Here we are again, the end of the year. Last year I did pretty well with my prognostications, mainly because I chose carefully. This time, I'm feeling a bit more reckless. A year from now, I am sure I'll be scratching my head - what was I thinking? - but then again, that's not such a bad place to be.

So in no particular order, here are some things that I believe have a reasonable chance of occurring in 2005 with regard to the intersection of media, technology, and search.

1. We will have a goat rodeo of sorts in the blogging/micropublishing/RSS world as commercial interests push into what many consider a "pure medium." I've seen this movie before, and it ends OK. But it's important that the debate be full throated, and so far it looks to be shaping up that way. I'm already seeing these forces at work over at Boing Boing, and I am sure they will continue. We'll all work on figuring out ways to stick to our principles and get paid at the same time, however, I expect that things might get more contentious before they get better, and 2005 may be a more fractious year in the blogosphere as we evolve through this process.

2. Along those lines, things will not go as swimmingly as we'd like with regard to "monetizat ion." As the majors get into the space and start throwing around their weight and lucre, some folks will make bad decisions, and others will freeze and make no decisions at all. It will get harder to innovate before it gets easier. We'll all be surprised by the lack of what we consider "progress" in the RSS/Blogging world, and expectations of major publishing revenues will not materialize as quickly as perhaps we think they should. However, we'll in fact be making huge strides in understanding the path forward, it just won't seem like it. By the end of the year, the world will begin to realize that "blogs" are in fact an extraordinarily heterogeneous ecosystem comprised of scores, if not hundreds, of different "types" of sites.

3. There will be two to five major new sites that emerge from "nowhere" to become major cultural influencers along the lines of the political bloggers of 2004. One of them will be sold to a major publisher/aggregator for what seems like a large sum of money, driving the abovementioned #2 and #3.

4. Meanwhile, the long tail will become the talk of the "old line" media world. To capture some of that value, we'll see a slew of deals and new publishing projects from the established brands that seek to capture the idea of community journalism, affiliate commerce sales, and collaborative content creation.

5. Google will do something major with Blogger. I really have no idea what, but it's overdue. Six Apart will grow quickly but face a crisis in its implementation as its core users demand more features that are "unbloglike" like customer databases and robust publishing support tools. This (and other things) may drive Six Apart or one of its competitors into the arms of Yahoo or AOL or even - gasp - Quark or Adobe or Marcomedia.

6. Ask will continue to consolidate traffic by buying smaller search sites.

7. Yahoo and Google will both test systems that combine local merchant inventory information with search, so that merchants can use search as a direct sales channel. By the end of the year, there will be no question that the search companies are in direct competition with the ecommerce companies, but it won't matter - there's room for them all. Paul Ford will continue to get droves of readers to his related, and very prescient, three year old post on how Google takes over the world.

8. Microsoft will lose search share before they gain it back later in the year when the integration of MSN search starts to scale with new versions of Office and IE . Net net, however, MSFT will gain total in total search sessions from last year, and its technology will get much, much better.

9. Firefox will near 15% of total browser share. Firefox faithful will wonder why it's not much much higher. But MSFT will release a very good upgrade of IE, see #8.

10. A third party platform player with major economies of scale (ie eBay or Amazon) will release a search related innovation that blows everyone's mind, and has everyone buzzing about how it redefines what's possible in search.

11. The China question will become a critical issue to the search community. Defining the China question will in itself be a major task of 2005. How do search companies go in without being "evil"? Is the tradeoff worth it?

12. By the end of the year, there will be no question that search is a media business, and that the major players in search are major players in the content business.

13. Something major will finally happen at Tivo. We all hope that it's a sale to Apple, but if it is a sale, it will more likely be to Comcast or DirecTv.

14. All year, Apple will be rumored to launch a video iPod, but it won't - it's still too early. By the end of 2005, we will just be starting to see traction in the video over IP market and its connection to search. Google will introduce Video search at some point in 05, but it will stay in Labs.

15. Mobile will finally be plugged into the web in a way that makes sense for the average user and a major mobile innovation - the kind that makes us all say - Jeez that was obvious - will occur. At the core of this innovation will be the concept of search. The outlines of such an innovation: it'll be a way for mobile users to gather the unstructured data they leverage every day while talking on the phone and make it useful to their personal web (including email and RSS, in particular). And it will be a business that looks and feels like a Web 2.0 business - leveraging iterative web development practices, open APIs, and innovation in assembly - that makes the leap. (More on this when I start posting again).

16. Perhaps most recklessly...I will finish my book. The reviews will be mixed, as my attempt to satisfy both the exacting audience of Searchbloggers and the more general audience of a major trade hardcover may fall flat. Many will say I tried to do too much, others that I didn't do nearly enough (how's that for airing my deepest fears in public?!). However, I'll be happy with the effort, and the book will do OK, thanks mainly to the support of this community. So, ahead of time, thanks for your support this past year. I learned more from this process than I ever thought possible, and I owe it all to you, who grace my site with your time and input.

17. Lastly, I will be involved in starting a new business in the field of media and technology. It will start very slowly, and I'll screw up as much as I possibly can in the early stages, before imposing it on the rest of the world. Hopefully, you'll all be there to keep me honest as I try to figure out a few ideas I've been simmering for the past year or so.

Unless there's a major story which breaks in the next week or so, I'm signing off for the year, and look forward to resuming posting in 2005. Have a wonderful holiday, and a prosperous, healthy New Year. Oh, and please add your thoughts on 2005 below - I know I missed a lot....

[Batte lle's Searchblog]

"Battelle's bl0g posting"

"Battelle's bl0g posting" 06/05/2004 04:19 AM

John Battelle's new startup

John Battelle's new startup 04/17/2005 01:29 PM
David Pescovitz: Congratulations to Boing Boing band manager John Battelle on the launch of his next media startup! We're thrilled to be FM Publishing's first lab rat. From the new company blog:

For now, the company is called "FM Publishing." The "FM" stands for "Federated Media" - a nod toward the fundamental idea behind the company - that of federation, as opposed to ownership (it's also sort of a nod to the evolution of a medium - e.g. radio going from AM to FM). The company is a publishing business focused on high quality content - that should come as no surprise to those of you who know what I love to do. But the difference is that I do not plan to "own" most of the content that will be critical to FM. Instead, I plan to partner with site authors, acting as a platform which provides important services to them - revenue (in the form of advertising), back end support, and the like. In essence, FM will act as a publisher to sites which need and want a publisher. We don't plan to take a lot of folks on, initially, but hope to grow over time.

FM was inspired by the things I learned writing the book, as well as running Searchblog and acting as Band Manager for Boing Boing. For now, nothing is really changing with regard to my role at Boing Boing, but when FMP is up and running, it's my goal to move BB's business services over to FMP, and the kind folks behind BB have agreed - at least in principle. I still have to deliver what I say I can deliver, and that's non trivial....

I'm not allergic to financial investors - folks who put money in with the express intent of getting a lot more money out - but for now, I prefer to keep it strategic, and small. In fact, I hope to build FMP in a very Web 2.0 way - a lightweight business model focused on innovation in assembly, driven by the force of many - you get the picture.

Link

War May Require More Money Soon---The
military already has identified unmet
funding needs, including initiatives
aimed at providing equipment and weapons
for troops in Iraq. The Army has
publicly identified nearly $6 billion in
funding requests that did

War May Require More Money Soon---The
military already has identified unmet
funding needs, including initiatives
aimed at providing equipment and weapons
for troops in Iraq. The Army has
publicly identified nearly $6 billion in
funding requests that did 04/22/2004 05:17 AM

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Battelle's tech predictions for 2005

Battelle's tech predictions for 2005 12/24/2004 12:29 PM
Xeni Jardin: John Battelle gazes knowingly into a crystal ball, and reports "things that I believe have a reasonable chance of occurring in 2005 with regard to the intersection of media, technology, and search." Really good stuff here, consider it required reading. Link

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Now That The
Other Shoe Has Dropped

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Now That The
Other Shoe Has Dropped 04/30/2004 09:20 AM
John Battelle's Searchblog: Now That The Other Shoe Has Dropped .. Open Letter

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John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Gilgamesh,
Search, and Immortality

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Gilgamesh,
Search, and Immortality 08/02/2004 06:50 PM
Search engines, immortality, and Gilgamesh

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"John Battelle's great analysis of the
Google SEC filing "

"John Battelle's great analysis of the
Google SEC filing " 04/30/2004 04:34 PM

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Andrew Anker
Joins Six Apart

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Andrew Anker
Joins Six Apart 06/07/2004 04:11 AM
Andrew Anker joins Six Apart .. Battelle reports

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John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Louis Monier
On Why He's Going To Google

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Louis Monier
On Why He's Going To Google 06/24/2005 05:53 PM
Industry Moves: AltaVista Founder Louis Monier Leaves EBay For Google .. Battelle: Louis Monier On Why He's Going To Google

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TiVo Spins Round and Round

TiVo Spins Round and Round 08/27/2004 03:59 PM
Plus, Oracle's still in hot pursuit, and put me in, Coach!

Round one to Vonage; round two to the
states?

Round one to Vonage; round two to the
states? 10/31/2003 07:26 PM

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Sell Side
Advertising: A New Model?

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: Sell Side
Advertising: A New Model? 08/27/2004 03:39 PM
Sell Side Advertising: A New Model? .. He writes about sell side ads .. The first one

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John Battelle's Searchbl0g: NEWS: A9,
Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live:
Reverberations Felt in Valley

John Battelle's Searchbl0g: NEWS: A9,
Amazon's Search Portal, Goes Live:
Reverberations Felt in Valley 04/14/2004 03:57 PM
Amazon launches their A9 search engine .. John Battelle .. scoop

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"FM Publishing"

"FM Publishing" 04/18/2005 03:11 PM

Self-Publishing Looking Better

Self-Publishing Looking Better 04/27/2004 04:11 PM
Self-publishing of books has had a pretty bad reputation for a while. There were a few success stories, but not many. Now, however, technology is making it easier and much, much cheaper to self-publish, meaning that self-publishing is losing some of its negative connotation. It's certainly not going to wipe out professional publishers, who are there for a reason. However, it does open up more possibilities for people who want to publish books for very focused audiences, or those who see self-publishing as a kind of minor league "warmup" for publishing a book the traditional way. While some fear being inundated with dreadful books, that seems silly. If the books are bad, no one is going to buy them. Besides, there are already plenty of dreadful books out there that you never hear about. A successful book generally requires a marketing campaign that many individual authors are incapable of doing on their own - which is why big publishers are around. However, for some authors, doing their own publicity is a thrill, and gives them much more control over how their book is promoted.

Alt.Publishing

Alt.Publishing 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Annalee Newitz has a nice article in this week's SF Bay Guardian about independent publishing and the some rights reserved copyright model.

Webmonkey closes down

Webmonkey closes down 02/17/2004 11:47 AM
This may be the year of the monkey, but sadly it is not the year of the Webmonkey. I'm gonna miss it. I learned some of my very first lessons about building websites from that website, and I still have various sections bookmarked for handy reference. BoingBoing reader Philip says:

Webmonkey is closing down! They finally pulled the plug. "Webmonkey, the site that turned humble Web developers into attention-grabbing authors, said last week it is closing down following a round of layoffs in the U.S. division of its parent company, Terra Lycos (also the parent company of Wired News). Judging by blog posts and e-mails, the site's fans aren't surprised. Still, they're sad to see the end of an era."

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Nasdaq closes above 2,000

Nasdaq closes above 2,000 12/29/2003 09:16 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 29 2003 8:07PM ET

China closes on 3G

China closes on 3G 08/15/2004 03:38 PM
Telecoms.com Aug 15 2004 8:11PM GMT

Google Closes Up 18 %

Google Closes Up 18 % 08/19/2004 05:02 PM
CBS News Aug 19 2004 9:48PM GMT

Publishing Pit Bulls

Publishing Pit Bulls 04/19/2004 08:21 AM
WebDevInfo Apr 19 2004 12:27PM GMT
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