Archive for October, 2007

October 31st,2007

Hallowe’en at b5 head office

Late last night, as a prank to my fellow canuck coworkers, I sent out an e-mail saying the entire office was required to come to work today in costume. I was hoping that one poor schmuck would do it…little did I know, it would be the CEO (seen here in true Canadian dress- as a […]

19 comments | Posted by Darcie

October 29th,2007

Top 80 Albums you’d need on a deserted island…

Reading this from a deserted island? Probably not…
But, if a fortune teller or psychic has told you recently that you may find yourself stranded on a deserted island, than you better start collecting albums from our list.
b5media’s Music Channel has compiled the 80 Albums that you should have on a deserted island.
Each of the following […]

5 comments | Posted by Mike

October 29th,2007

New Flight of the Conchords blog!

b5media’s Music Channel is pumped to announce the newest blog to the fold.
Conchord Crazy will cover New Zealand’s 4th biggest guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.
Don’t know the Concords? Here’s their synopsis:
Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement are Flight of the Conchords - an acoustic folk duo who use a combination of witty banter, characterisation […]

4 comments | Posted by Mike

October 29th,2007

b5media’s New Advisory Board!

Rick Segal, one of our VC’s, quietly announced this last week while I was travelling, but b5media has brought on a fantastic new Advisory Board to help advise myself and the company through our next stage of growth.
I dropped a long post on Ensight explaining the background of why I felt we needed an Advisory […]

No Comments | Posted by Jeremy Wright

October 25th,2007

Travel & Culture Arrives in Toronto

 
With our corporate headquarters in Toronto, you had to know that it wouldn’t be long before b5media established an additional presence in that city.  That happens today, with the launch of the Travel & Culture’s newest destination blog — The Toronto Traveler.
 

 
Whether you think of it as Hogtown, the Blue City, the Heart of […]

2 comments | Posted by Mary Jo

October 23rd,2007

October Action in Beauty & Style

October is a great month for beauty and fashion. It is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Halloween, two occasions that get all beautiful fashionistas geared up for action.
We have some contests going on this month in the Beauty & Style channel that you fashionistas might be interested in. Most recently, Chloe at Her […]

1 comment | Posted by Christina Jones

October 23rd,2007

Spekked.com Launch Contest Winners

b5media recently launched a new Entertainment Gateway - Spekked.com. To celebrate, we held a big launch contest, with prizes from a new iPod Nano to DVD sets to Netflix subscriptions.
The winners of the contest are:

1st prize: Kathryn McGinnis
2nd prize: Elizabeth Alexander
3rd prize: Jason and Caryn Bailey
4th prize: Kirk Warren

The winners have been contacted by […]

2 comments | Posted by Arieanna

October 16th,2007

The Weird Wide Web!

With the many zany developments in the technosphere (Apple slowly becoming the next evil empire for instance), we decided to compile a few posts on the lighter side of our little channel.
Over af a Feed is Born, Juned has compiled a short list of odds and ends. In a recent conversation with the guy, he […]

No Comments | Posted by Jayvee

October 16th,2007

The Science And Health Channel Brings You Community Wide “Top 10″ Lists…

We have decided to change up our normal theme day this month here at the science and health channel. Since lists have become fairly popular, we are offering up our take on the “top 10″ from Autism to Veggie eating. Some of us offered up funny, some clinical and some very personal. All […]

5 comments | Posted by Kendra

October 16th,2007

From the World of Sports

From the baseball playoffs to NBA preseason and everything in between, we have it all covered at the b5media Sports Channel.
Let’s take a look around the channel to find out what’s happening in the world of sports.
Geoff gets you ready for the World Series at Knuckle Curve. Allison gives her opinion of the AP Poll college […]

3 comments | Posted by Kori Ellis