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by mtippett | July 10, 2008 at 09:03 am
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You may have read today’s news about our acquisition of Truemors. For those of you not familiar with the site it is the brainchild of Guy Kawasaki. Guy is a legend in Silicon Valley as a best selling author, VC and one of the early players at Apple -- among other things. I’m a big fan of his and am psyched to have him join our team as the Chairman of our advisory group.
In addition to the wealth of Guy’s experience we are also picking up a great group of editors and Trumorists to add to our expanding pool of citizen editors. Welcome to Annie and the rest of the group. We will be working hard to get you all integrated into the NowPublic editorial team and I think you will all be a fantastic addition to our news gathering capabilities.
As you’d expect, an acquisition like this in such a crazed space (those were the words of Michael Arrington) there has been a great deal of press attention. The AFP picked up the story as well as most of the Valley tech media. We’re getting lots of emails and thanks to everyone for their good words.
So day one of the merger seems to be going well. But as with any new success there are sometimes some growing pains. NowPublic is weathering the traffic barrage well but truemors is having a tough time staying online. This has provided our tech team with a good opportunity to get to know the Truemors servers a little earlier than we had planned ☺ Rest assured, Truemors is in good hands and we’ll have it back on his feet in no time. Stay tuned!
Michael.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (18)
at 09:06 on July 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff. Nice job Michael...congratulations!
at 09:59 on July 10th, 2008
I was a regular on Truemors' website. I hope it gets up and running soon. Thanks.
at 10:21 on July 10th, 2008
Let the citizen media consolidation begin!
[chuckle]
Good luck/ Bonne chance!
at 10:57 on July 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff. NowPublic is number 4 in google trends right now
at 11:12 on July 10th, 2008
mtippett, this is great news. I like this story and welcome . It's good stuff.
at 11:44 on July 10th, 2008
Exciting news Michael. Congratulations.
BTW, my award-winning-conservative-blogging-legend website is for sale. I'll make you a good price.
at 12:57 on July 10th, 2008
This great deal looks promising and am really enthusiastic about the prospects for citizen journalists worldwide to benefit more and more with this merger. Cheers!
at 13:58 on July 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 14:31 on July 10th, 2008
Good stuff, congratulations to all the team.
at 15:32 on July 10th, 2008
I hope THEY can teach NP lots....like how to do things properly.
at 19:28 on July 10th, 2008
nanna nanna boo boo
stick your head in doo doo
at 20:26 on July 13th, 2008
Speaking of which, I'm curious, ...why are you the only member of NP I've come across so far who doesn't have a 'channel' profile?
at 23:25 on July 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff. now I get it!
at 23:41 on July 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Awesome news!
at 00:39 on July 11th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 10:18 on July 11th, 2008
Thanks for all the good wishes everyone. - Mike.
at 20:27 on July 13th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Good luck!
at 18:41 on March 19th, 2009
Wow - within one day I went from "Guy Kawa-who?" to reading about him and Chris Anderson's joint interview at SXSW and that he not only started Truemors, but that NP bought it.
Cool.