VentureBeat Launches
Got notified that Matt Marshall and Michale Bazeley have spun out their SiliconBeat blog into VentureBeat, with larger aspirations:
[from VentureBeat Launches by Matt Marshall]My Mercury News colleague Michael Bazeley and I launched SiliconBeat.com almost two years ago, in an effort to respond to the new reality of online media. The blog began as an experiment, taking up an hour or so of my day. Soon, it became much more: Baze and I found ourselves spending several hours daily on a blog that was supposed to be outside of our day jobs at the Merc. Baze, showing more sanity, pulled back from SiliconBeat and has taken a job managing the Mercury News’ Web site. For me, SiliconBeat continued as a labor of love, a way to filter the goings-on of this fascinating place we call Silicon Valley. Yet I was doing too much. So I approached the Mercury News, and told them I wanted to go out on my own.
To my delight, the Mercury News has become my first customer. It will syndicate the content I produce here. It has the right to run it in the paper, and to put it on their Web site. For me, it is a great deal. The Merc is the valley’s paper of record. It is my first read in the morning, and what I do here at VentureBeat is linked with the Merc’s mission. Like most of the people at the Merc, I care about the community in a broader sense. That is why I’m covering things from a geographical standpoint, as opposed to an industry niche.
Looks good, looks like it will attract solid contributors. Going to be a daily read for me.
There is an interesting article about google business model in the latest news of venturebeat..dont miss it
http://www.venturebeat.com/contributors/2006/10/24/the-google-myth-goes-pop
Posted by: Ragu Sivanmalai | October 25, 2006 at 08:00 AM