http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:11:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/comment-page-1/#comment-832218 Bleacher Report’s sports fan journalism gets $3.5M boost » VentureBeat Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:54:48 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/#comment-832218 [...] Crawford and SoftTech VC, with additional participation from College Humor founder Jakob Ludwick. Bleacher Report announced a first round in the “single-digit millions” earlier this year. Tags: co:Bleacher-Report, [...] [...] Crawford and SoftTech VC, with additional participation from College Humor founder Jakob Ludwick. Bleacher Report announced a first round in the “single-digit millions” earlier this year. Tags: co:Bleacher-Report, [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/comment-page-1/#comment-829703 Sports Blogging @ BleacherReport.com « JeffBennett.org Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:10:38 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/#comment-829703 [...] BleacherReport.Com On Venture Beat [...] [...] BleacherReport.Com On Venture Beat [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/comment-page-1/#comment-795945 Web RoundUp: Feb 19, 2008 : unitedBIT Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:52:37 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2008/02/20/bleacher-report-offers-the-spotlight-to-fan-journalists/#comment-795945 [...] ManagedQ takes the more radical approach. It rethought the entire user interface to make it much more visual. Explains founder David Stat: So why not a search application, rather than create a search engine, we can sit on top of the results of any search engine. Currently ManagedQ use Google. Every time you do a search on ManagedQ, a grid appears on the right of the first six results so you can visually see what is on the other side of what is normally a blue link. If you click on one of the images, it opens up a larger, browsable window still within ManagedQ. The idea is that you can surf the Web without leaving the search application. Moreover, ManagedQ combines the visual search with a guided search experience. The major drawback to ManagedQ is that if you want to see beyond the first result grid, you have to hit a “Next” button at the bottom. This flaw alone makes ManagedQ not much more than an interesting experiment at this point. Details about Surf Canyon and ManagedQ has been reported by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch Bleacher Report is a publishing platform formally launching this week that wants to give a voice and audience to those people who seem to always have an opinion about the current draft, drug scandal, preseason or playoffs. Bleacher Report is essentially a centralized blogging platform for sports where anyone can sign up and begin writing stories about college and professional sports. It’s not an aggregation service that crawls the web for amateur sports news and editorial, but writers who already run their own blogs can manually choose to feed their stories into Bleacher Report in addition to writing them on-site. Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch explain why sport writer should publish at Bleacher Report: (i) better audience; (ii) forming a kind of writer’s fan club; Bleacher Report’s categorizing capability. According to Hendrickson, the most innovative thing about Bleacher Report may be its built-in community editing system. Like many sites we see these days, Bleacher Report also integrates typical social networking features. Read more at TechCrunch and at Mashable (UPDATE, on feb 20 Anthony Ha (sounds a Vietnamese) has a review at VentureBeat) [...] [...] ManagedQ takes the more radical approach. It rethought the entire user interface to make it much more visual. Explains founder David Stat: So why not a search application, rather than create a search engine, we can sit on top of the results of any search engine. Currently ManagedQ use Google. Every time you do a search on ManagedQ, a grid appears on the right of the first six results so you can visually see what is on the other side of what is normally a blue link. If you click on one of the images, it opens up a larger, browsable window still within ManagedQ. The idea is that you can surf the Web without leaving the search application. Moreover, ManagedQ combines the visual search with a guided search experience. The major drawback to ManagedQ is that if you want to see beyond the first result grid, you have to hit a “Next” button at the bottom. This flaw alone makes ManagedQ not much more than an interesting experiment at this point. Details about Surf Canyon and ManagedQ has been reported by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch Bleacher Report is a publishing platform formally launching this week that wants to give a voice and audience to those people who seem to always have an opinion about the current draft, drug scandal, preseason or playoffs. Bleacher Report is essentially a centralized blogging platform for sports where anyone can sign up and begin writing stories about college and professional sports. It’s not an aggregation service that crawls the web for amateur sports news and editorial, but writers who already run their own blogs can manually choose to feed their stories into Bleacher Report in addition to writing them on-site. Mark Hendrickson of TechCrunch explain why sport writer should publish at Bleacher Report: (i) better audience; (ii) forming a kind of writer’s fan club; Bleacher Report’s categorizing capability. According to Hendrickson, the most innovative thing about Bleacher Report may be its built-in community editing system. Like many sites we see these days, Bleacher Report also integrates typical social networking features. Read more at TechCrunch and at Mashable (UPDATE, on feb 20 Anthony Ha (sounds a Vietnamese) has a review at VentureBeat) [...]

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