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Daytime Talk TV

Jeanne Dupuis, the blogger behind IdolStalker and Beyonce-K, now brings you DaytimeTalk.com, a blog devoted to daytime talk shows on tv.

Whether you just love Oprah or Martha Stewart, or want to know about something you saw on the Today Show, you’ll find it all on DaytimeTalk.com
Covering everything from what’s on this week to pictures and […]

1 comment | Posted by Arieanna

Virtual Reach and b5media Partner to Mobilize New Media

Toronto, ON – 28 June 2007 – Virtual Reach Inc., developer of the breakthrough Viigo mobile platform, announced today it has partnered with b5media Inc., a global new media network, to mobilize b5media blog content.
The Viigo mobile platform revolutionizes the mobile user experience, allowing partners like b5media to publish their content in a clean, efficient […]

1 comment | Posted by Brian Layman

b5media Goes Mobile

At b5media, one of the most important mandates is making sure the kick-ass content written by passionate bloggers is available to readers in a variety of ways - whether it’s via our blogs (featuring our new and improved template), RSS feeds, channel feeds, etc.
That’s why we’re so excited about our partnership with Virtual Reach Inc., […]

11 comments | Posted by Mark

Talking About Men & New Bloggers with the Travel & Culture Channel

What do new blogs and men have in common? 
They’ve both been occupying the time of the b5media Travel & Culture bloggers over the last few weeks!
We’re serious about equal opportunities here at the Travel & Culture Channel, so it’s only fitting  after a theme day for the women in May that we would have […]

1 comment | Posted by Mary Jo

It’s a USG World!

There’s lots and lots (and lots) of user-generated content such as blogs, Wikis, videos and personal Web sites being consumed and created these days but how big are both communities?
According to eMarketer, the number of user-generated content users will climb from 128-million in 2006 to 147.5-million in 2007 and 253.6-million by 2011.
Meanwhile, the number […]

1 comment | Posted by Mark

Blog Search Start-Up Gets $3.3M

For all of Google’s dominance of the search market, the blog search world is still wide open for all kinds of different players to establish a foothold. An interesting start-up is Lijit, which recently received $3.3-million in second fund venture funding. Lijit lets people search your blog, bookmarks, blogroll, as well as your Flickr, Digg […]

No Comments | Posted by Mark

What’s an Internet Rock Star? Ask Will Pate.

Will Pate, who just agreed to come on board as the editor for b5’s new Internet rockstar channel, provides a lengthy - and colourful - explanation about the channel’s focus and want he wants to do with it. My favourite sentence in his post is this:
“An internet rockstar is someone who doesn’t surf the series […]

3 comments | Posted by Mark

$400M for a Domain Name!!!

At b5media, we buy lots of domain names. Sometimes - but not very often - we even pay more than $10 for them. All in all, we’ve got a lot of really good domain names.
That said, it looks like our chances of buying Business.com are non-existent. The domain, which was purchased in 1999 for a […]

8 comments | Posted by Mark

Making a Living from Blogging

There’s been lots of attention these days on whether you can make a living from blogging.
First, it was the New York Times, which quoted Jeremy Wright, and now it’s USA Today, which has a story in today’s edition about blogging turning into a business from a hobby.
The story looks at Om Malik (GigaOm) and […]

3 comments | Posted by Mark

Are You Green?

We’re all becoming more green and environmentally-conscious these days.
To provide people with tools, tips and valuable/useful information on how to take better care of Mother Earth, b5media is looking for people who are passionate about the green movement and the environment.
We want to launch blogs across a variety of subjects - be it […]

4 comments | Posted by Mark