http://www.participatemedia.com Notes from the Publisher of BuzzTracker.com Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:03:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am excited to announce that I am joining Yahoo! to run Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) as Vice President and General Manager. Yahoo! is also acquiring BuzzTracker.com and related technologies as well as bringing on all Participate Media staff. The decision to sell the business and move to Yahoo! was relatively ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2007/09/14/headline-joining-yahoo/ Yesterday (March 12, 2007) was our last day as Publisher for RealClearPolitics. As was reported in PaidContent a month ago, the investor group I led sold our stake in RealClearPolitics back to the founders earlier this year...and stepping down as Publisher is a natural consequence of that transaction. ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2007/03/13/realclearpolitics/ It's been a while since I posted - but I felt the need to chime in on all the discussion about Geography and how it relates to your startup -- and to online media in general. Ross Mayfield (bottom of the post) asks Dick Costolo of Feedburner: So Dick, let me ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2007/02/27/sweet-home-chicago/ Yesterday, the Washington Post Announced a Partnership with RealClearPolitics to: "provide washingtonpost.com with a daily feed of its "Best of the Web" series, including top recommended news articles and opinion pieces, to be featured in washingtonpost.com's "Politics News & Analysis" e-mail newsletter and on the front page of the site's well-regarded ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2007/01/25/realclearpolitics-partners-with-washington-post/ Our new BuzzTracker design, here at http://www.buzztracker.com, incorporates MyBlogLog communities very prominently above the fold on almost every page. We've been getting lots of questions of why this is, why did we do it, etc., so I thought I'd write this post to try to give a little insight ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2007/01/18/why-we-love-mybloglog-and-why-you-should-too/ Although we're still in Beta for a few more weeks -- we have recently completed some major improvements to the back end and front end of BuzzTracker.com -- we're super excited about it and really want to hear from you on what you think. When we initially launched our Beta at ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2007/01/16/a-new-front-end-a-new-back-end-for-buzztracker/ I co-wrote this whitepaper back in 2000 with my last company, Participate.com (yes I like the name) -- and I think it still has merit and relevancy today as publisher try to "crack the code" on driving viral customer acquisition behavior. I putting it up today in light of Fred's post ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2006/12/14/return-on-participation/ There's been a confluence of events in the past week or so that continues to support what we're seeing and doing in the web publishing space. First, Evan Williams announced the formation of Obvious Corporation, to create a network of web-based services, each with a distinct purpose and brand, but sharing ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2006/11/03/capital-efficiency-or-why-are-you-raising-so-much-money/ Many of our BuzzTracker readers have commented on the design� of the site -- and we hear your feedback!� From the time of launch, we realized that we would need to do a redesign shortly but we wanted to get the service out there, being used etc. We have begun ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2006/10/19/buzztracker-design/ We're extremely pleased to announce BuzzTracker Magnets are now available on the BuzzTracker site. Leveraging FeedBurner BuzzBoost, we are now able to allow any blogger or web site to grab one of our almost 200 topic feeds (and growing to 1,000 by Thanksgiving!) and display a text box on ... http://www.participatemedia.com/2006/10/11/announcing-buzztracker-magnets/