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Secret Merger Talks Between Technorati And b5media Blow Up

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2008-04-18 07:06:19 by Erick Schonfeld in TechCrunch
...b5media when the whole deal blew up earlier this week, according to a source familiar with the negotiations Technorati has been searching for a new strategy ever since it appointed CEO Richard Jalichandra last October. It was recently trying to raise an additional round of financing, and pitching venture capitalists that it could turn itself...
 
Tags: blog roll-up idea, blog, b5media, blog roll-up strategy, technorati, blog network b5media, pitch deck technorati, strategy, engine technorati
 
 
 
 
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b5media Offers To Buy Know More Media Blogs and/or a Full Corporate Acquisition

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2008-07-25 17:52:20 by Allen Stern in CenterNetworks
...b5media CEO, has posted an open letter this evening to the staff and bloggers from Know More Media . He opens the letter by saying that various sources are telling him that Know More Media is closing shop soon, as early as next week. I sure hope that the KMM bloggers and staff already know this and aren't first learning about it here or on...
 
Tags: blog network, blog, b5media blog network, b5media, media, media blogs, blogs, network, notes
 
 
 
 
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Outbrain and b5media Partner on Content Ratings and Recommendations

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2008-10-01 09:41:05 by Allen Stern in CenterNetworks
...b5media this morning. Under the terms of the partnership, b5media will install the ratings and recommendations widget on all 300+ blogs in the b5media network. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed The Outbrain widget allows blog readers to rate the qualityof the content and receive recommendations for other content based on...
 
Tags: recommendations, b5media, receive recommendations, recommendations network, ratings, outbrain, content, content ratings, b5media network
 
 
 
 
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b5media Technology Director Aaron Brazell Departs

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2008-03-26 08:05:02 by Allen Stern in CenterNetworks
...b5media has announced the departure of technology director Aaron Brazell today. Brazell has a departure post on his personal blog Technosailor. Brazell will remain on staff until a replacement is located Brazell notes on his future plans, "At this point, Im not sure what those next steps are but I have options. Id like to develop Mokonji a...
 
Tags: brazell, blog network b5media, blog network, brazell notes, departure post, departure, personal blog technosailor, develop mokonji, future plans
 
 
 
 
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b5media Partners With PicScout For Free Licensed Images

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2008-05-30 14:01:11 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
b5media , a media network with over 350 blogs, has partnered with PicScout to obtain legally licensed images at no cost through their PicApp application PicScout originally started off as a content copyright enforcer, hunting down unlicensed images on the web with its flagship ImageTracker program. After realizing how ubiquitous unlicensed...
 
Tags: images, free, image provider, image, normal images, image details, picapps free content, content, quality images
 
 
 
 
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b5media Blogs Now Serving Up Chitika Advertising

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2008-06-02 08:22:25 by Allen Stern in CenterNetworks
b5media and Chitika have announced a partnership today that will bring Chitika's advertising program to the 350+ blogs that are in the b5media blog network. This is a huge distribution deal for Chitika. Financial terms of the deal were not provided On one of the private advertising forums I am a part of, we've been discussing Chitika a lot...
 
Tags: chitika, premium program publishers, premium program, b5media, program, blogs, b5media blog network, huge distribution deal, deal
 
 
 
 
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Lijit Gets Back Up To Speed, Scores Deal With b5media

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2008-06-05 19:07:09 by Jason Kincaid in TechCrunch
...b5media , a blogging network with 350 properties. Lijit lets users simultaneous search through content on a particular blog and on related sites, which appeals to b5media because it increases traffic between their own blogs. Vernon says that the initial response has been very positive, with a pageview increase of 1.5% across the network...
 
Tags: lijit, network, network directly, slow speeds, b5media, server capacity, site, slow, crunch network
 
 
 
 
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Lijit the Widget catches speed; strikes deal with b5media

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2008-06-06 12:16:41 by Sardar Mohkim Khan in Startup Meme
...b5media (a blogging network with 350 properties). Lijits idea of simultaneous searching of content on a certain blog and sites related appealed to b5media. Its not the idea but the reason behind is that this increases the traffic within their own blogs. So its a fair and fine deal for both parties and the results have already shown that with...
 
Tags: deal, lijit, increase lijits capacity, increase, fine deal, b5media, slow speeds, traffic, systems migration
 
 
 
 
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More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant.

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2008-03-19 09:52:38 by Michael Arrington in TechCrunch
...B5Media ($2 million), PaidContent ($1 million) Sugar Inc. ($5 million) and GigaOm ($325,000). Thats just $8.5 million or a little more, about 1/3 of the amount invested in 2007 As far as we know, no significant investments were made in blogs in 2005. Weblogs, Inc raised around $300,000 in 2004, but before they got around to spending it they...
 
Tags: bloggers, round, million round, million, million valuation, capital, political capital, raise venture capital, money