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February 12th, 2008

Northern Voice is sold out! Four years running

Northern Voice was Canada’s first blogging conference and has sold out every year it’s been around (four years now).  Missed last year and it looks like I’ll miss this year as well:
Once again, Northern Voice is sold out. I always find it a little remarkable when that happens, as we have a marketing budget of […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 2 comments

January 28th, 2008

WordPress Prologue Theme could brings what’s missing to Twitter-Groups

Marshall Kirkpatrick and I were chatting tonight and he mentioned the new WP theme called “Prologue” that has some very Twitter-like features.  We were also both musing how we were sitting chatting at DEMO while other folks were blogging it.  Of course if you can’t be first–be smarter (I think Marshall might beat me in […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 4 comments

January 23rd, 2008

Automattic Nails $29 million in funding! The open-source model has legs

Great, great news this morning that Automattic received an investment, and the Gray Lady herself is one of the investors, of $29.5 million to build their business even more.  I like to see these reasonable amounts of funding.  Sure it’s a lot of money, but it also costs a lot to build a business as […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 2 comments

January 20th, 2008

Congrats to all the Crunchies winners, but especially Techmeme, StumbleUpon, Automattic, & Toni Schneider

The Crunchies were given out on Friday and the complete winners list was put up on Saturday.  Congrats, of course, go out to all of the winners, but there are a few winners who I want to give special attention to:
Best bootstrapped startup: Techmeme.Founded and developed solely by Gabe Rivera, Techmeme serves as the front […]

By User ImageTris Hussey -- 2 comments

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