Archive for the 'b5 Announcements' Category

April 29th,2008

Sega Nerds officially joins b5media’s VGC

The month is about to end, but the action just keeps piling up in the Video Games Channel. After launching a casual games blog earlier this month, we now introduce Sega Nerds, the only place you need to visit to get all your Sega news, reviews, previews, and more!

Sega Nerds is an already-thriving blog when […]

1 comment | Posted by Mike Leaño

April 28th,2008

Rachel Segal joins b5media as Marketing Manager

I let the cat out of the bag last week (okay truthfully Rachel did first), however today is Rachel’s official first day with b5media as our new Marketing Manager.
If you have read Rachel’s blog Debanter (that’s how I met her) you would then know that she comes to us from MusicIP.  Rachel has returned […]

9 comments | Posted by Tris Hussey

April 23rd,2008

Rainbows & Politics

 

The Travel & Culture Channel is excited to announce the return of the pop culture blog Starked DC, and the debut of our latest destination blog, The Hawaii Traveler, as welcome two new bloggers to our midst.
 
First up we have Jody Reale at The Hawaii Traveler.  Jody divides her time between the mountains of Colorado […]

No Comments | Posted by Mary Jo

April 17th,2008

UltraLight Delight: The Ultraportable Blog

Truth be told, it isn’t just about the technology behind the machine, but these gadgets have a certain “air” to them as well. Welcome to the realm of the ultraportable. It isn’t a laptop. It isn’t a cellphone. What it is, basically, is a class of its own.
Ultralight Delight caters to the phoenomena started […]

No Comments | Posted by Jayvee

April 15th,2008

Manscaping 101 Featuring The Tris Hussey

Oh, you thought Tris Hussey was just a geek?  An unkempt computer drone that lives for Canadian tech news?  Not so!  Tris is a high stylin’, groovy groomin’ man, as passionate about grooming as he is about tech and photography - and as of today he has joined our illustrious Beauty & Style channel with […]

7 comments | Posted by Christina Jones

April 14th,2008

Gamerlite is switched on!

The first of several Video Games Channel blogs is launching today. If you’ve been keeping track, there are several that we’re planning to introduce: One is about the Xbox; another is for handheld games, and the third focuses on casual games.
The blog we’re unveiling at the moment is Gamerlite, b5media’s casual games blog. All the […]

1 comment | Posted by Mike Leaño

March 28th,2008

b5media welcomes Joey deVilla as our “nerd wrangler”!

We’re pleased to welcome Joey deVilla to the b5media fold as our
Technical Project Manager, or as he likes to put it, “Nerd Wrangler”.
Joey brings 14 years’ worth of experience in software development and
technical promotion — and 9 years’ worth of rock and roll accordion
playing.
Joey comes to us from a short stint at TSOT, where he […]

No Comments | Posted by Administrator

March 28th,2008

The Tokyo Traveler Arrives at b5media

 
The b5media Travel & Culture Channel is pleased to announce another destination blogs joining our ranks, The Tokyo Traveler, written by Shane Sakata.
 

 
Shane is living in Tokyo now, recently transplanted there from Hawaii, and as she learns her way around the busy city will share her adventures and misadventures with everyone. 
The Tokyo Traveler joins […]

5 comments | Posted by Mary Jo

March 26th,2008

Saying a Sad Farewell to Aaron; Hiring Director of Technology!

It’s with a bunch of pride and a bit of sadness that I write this post thanking Aaron Brazell for his time at b5media and saying goodbye (here’s Aaron’s post on the subject).
As most folk know, Aaron’s been an absolutely integral part of the company almost since the beginning (he started doing contract work for […]

7 comments | Posted by Jeremy Wright

March 10th,2008

Tech Side Up: Monetizing your pets one day at a time!

Months ago we had a blog called Emerging Earth, a blog that talked about “emerging technology” as it was - you know, the whole blogging bit and how we try to monetize photos of cats and dogs with captions. Thing is, a lot of the things that were just “emerging” a few months ago are […]

3 comments | Posted by Jayvee