Jason Calacanis, CEO of AOL's Weblogs, Inc. kindly shares his responses from an email interview with a mainstream journalist. Blogging is already a business. Our company, Weblogs, Inc., is an eight figure a year business. Gawker Media, Rafat Ali's PaidContent.org, Mike Arrington's TechCrunch, John Battelle's Federated Media, and Boingboing.net are all significant media business today. In terms of profitability the …
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Barkley Evergreen & Partners, Inc., the largest independent employee-owned agency in the country, has changed its name to Barkley. The shift comes as the agency moves to a new national headquarters building located in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District, a thriving creative community that includes the city’s best art galleries and production houses. The agency's original name was created by combining the street …
Ogilvy Switches To Roam
Brian Morrissey of Adfreak is reporting on a new idea emerging from Ogilvy. Chris Wall, co-chief creative officer at Ogilvy, intends to launch an agency offshoot called Ogilvy Transient. Wall described Transient at the shop’s Verge conference yesterday, and it doesn’t refer to an underbathed creative. It'll be a roaming, experimental agency unit that aims to produce “brand journalism” for clients, with creative types …
Google Serves Up Mobile Mail
Google introduced an innovative new mobile client, Gmail for mobile devices. This freely downloadable Java application delivers Gmail users the look and feel of Gmail through a fast, feature-rich interface that's optimized for handheld devices. Deep Nishar, director of product management at Google said, "We realize the role mobile phones play as a key driver for balancing online and offline worlds, and we're …
It Takes Talent To Work With Talent
Michael Zhang of Folksonomy spoke recently with John Battelle, the founder and Chair of Federated Media Publishing. Here's a slice of their conversation: Q. What are some challenges that you've experienced since starting Federated Media? A. Working with the folks that we have selected to be in the network has been a learning experience, because they're all very talented individuals and they require a certain level of …
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Someone’s Pissed At PayPal
San Francicso Chronicle reports on a scary disturbance at eBay's PayPal division. Police cordoned off eBay's campus in north San Jose on Wednesday while trying to find out who was responsible for a Halloween explosion that jolted a four-story office building housing PayPal, the auction company's online-payment division. The blast, set off at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in an outdoor walkway, shattered a heavy panel of glass on …
Bloggers Get New Machines In Return For Words
Jen Chung of Gothamist is participating in a new brand-sponsored group blog at intelbloggerchallenge.com. Each week a moderator asks Intel's small group of prominent bloggers a question. The chosen ones blog their responses. The introductory query was, "Why do you blog and what is one thing you have accomplished through blogging that you are most proud of?" Chung's response (in part): My friends and I would e-mail …
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Dude, Your Phone Rocks So Hard
Reuters points out that music for mobiles is turning into a masive business that device makers like Nokia are cashing in on. Consumers are increasingly snapping up mobile phones with built-in music players, and sales far outstrip shipments of dedicated MP3 music players. "The change in consumers' habits has started. The best evidence is our sales number. We are selling huge amounts," Tommi Mustonen, director at …
