http://www.blognetworknews.com Sticking Our Noses In The Blog Networks' Business Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:25:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Cyprus Blog Network is currently reshaping things, and when the dust settles, they hope to have a few good bloggers on board. Would you like to write for Cyprus Blog Network? Would you like to be a voice of Cyprus blogging? Do you think that you can bring more information ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2007/cyprus-blog-networking-seeks-writers/ Shiny Media, managed by Ashley Norris and Chris Price, recently secured $4.5 million in venture capital from Bright Station Ventures. (Congratulations) Wagner’s first move at Bright Station Ventures was to take 50% of the 22-strong UK-based blog network, which claims 3m readers each month. It is good news for Shiny and ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2007/shiny-media-gets-new-money/ I'm sure the folks at the Bloggy Network are happy with their brand new acquisition. On February 1, 2007, they announced that they would be welcoming a brand new gadget blog, Gadgetizer.com, into their blog network family. Gadgetizer is a technology blog penned by Tiago Gaspar (who will remain the editor ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2007/bloggy-networks-welcomes-gadgetizer/ On January 31, 2007, the Voices.com blog network announced that it would begin accepting advertising and sponsorship on a monthly basis. Voices.com presents advertisers with an exclusive opportunity to get in front of thousands of unique visitors and listeners each day. The blog network sponsorship includes featured ad placement on ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2007/start-advertising-on-the-voices-blog-network/ It seems that it's just that time of year -- everyone is leaving some company. First, Duncan Riley leaves b5media, now Jason Calanis (of Weblogs, Inc. fame) is leaving AOL. The story was first broken at TechCrunch and then picked up by the New York Times. The news comes after Jason ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2006/jason-calacanis-leaves-aol/ In a quick post on Wednesday, b5media announced that Duncan Riley will be moving on. The last few weeks have been very exciting for b5media, but we are sad to announce that effective immediately Duncan Riley is leaving b5. Speculation that the departure wasn't amicable was already brought up in the very ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2006/good-bye-duncan/ It was announced on Wednesday that b5media has raised $2 million USD to fund their blog network's growth. b5media Inc. (“b5media”), a global new media network, has raised US$2-million of equity financing in a transaction co-lead by Brightspark Ventures and J. L. Albright Venture Partners. The funding will strengthen the company’s ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2006/b5media-gets-some-money/ I'm a day late and a penny short, but I'm finally making the announcement about it. Creative Weblogging has introduced its first sponsored blog into the network. The new blog is called Small Biz Unplugged and is geared towards the Canadian small business owners. It is a first! We have just launched ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2006/creative-webloggings-new-sponsored-blog/ If you enjoy writing, and need a little extra exposure, then Creative Weblogging wants you. They are currently looking for bloggers in the following areas: Patent Law Hedge Funds Financial Markets Watch (Commodities, Emerging Markets Investments) Fashion Motorcycles Global Warming SAP Oracle Databases & Applications SOA CRM DataCenter, DataManagement Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) IT-Security MySQL Visual Basic C++ Web Services Outsourcing A number of other topics and, of course, you ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2006/creative-weblogging-looking-for-bloggers/ If you like clicking around new websites, then you may be exactly who Jeremy Wright is looking for. b5media is looking for some people to help them test out version 2 of their design/platform for the next two weeks. Anyone interested should head over to Jeremy's blog and leave him a ... http://www.blognetworknews.com/2006/b5media-looking-for-beta-testers/