TC50: Crowd Fusion wants to be the ultimate tool for web publishing

TC50: Crowd Fusion wants to be the ultimate tool for web publishing

Crowd Fusion, the web publishing startup from Weblogs co-creator Brian Alvey that’s been in stealth mode, demonstrated its suite of publishing tools on-stage at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco today.

There are a lot of pieces to the Crowd Fusion platform (to be honest I had trouble keeping track of all the moving parts in Alvey’s demo), but the concept behind Crowd Fusion is that it’s a single tool for blogs, wikis, and collaboration. It’s… Continue Reading

Stealthy web publishing platform Crowd Fusion raises $3M from Velocity, Greycroft, Andreessen

Stealthy web publishing platform Crowd Fusion raises $3M from Velocity, Greycroft, Andreessen

How to publish on the web? Crowd Fusion, currently in stealth, is promising some fancy-sounding features like “Innovative content management, database management & performance evaluation/optimization tools” that has this web publisher interested in learning more.

The big blogging platforms — Blogger, TypePad, Wordpress — offer easy ways for anyone to create and publish their own blog. But Wordpress and TypePad also offer more complex versions to help larger publishers manage lots of content coming from many… Continue Reading