Summer Update
We've been working under the radar the last couple of months, turning down press interviews and requests for meetings from investors. That's because we've got some great stuff coming out end of the summer, and we'd rather keep our powder dry before then. But I thought I'd write a quick preview for our followers:
-we'll debut a service to assist small clients create custom designs and feature configurations, along with coaching to take charge of running a great professional-grade site all by themselves.
-we'll have our DIY platform ready to take out of beta, with a slew of important new features that will make it easier than ever for regular people to create and run their own powerful websites.
Robert Scoble Interviews Us at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference
The TechCrunch Disrupt conference drew an international crowd to New York this week, including a large contingent from the west coast.
I ran into Robert Scoble, of Scobleizer.com fame, who is now running Building43.com, a video, blog and podcast network. Scoble and I had a chat during a lunch break -- here it is: http://bit.ly/94mYgR
Inside Buzzr: the Lullabot Podcast Now Live
I spent a couple hours last week chatting with Jeff Robbins, CEO of Lullabot; Karen Stevenson (a Lullabot, and lead developer of Buzzr); Matt Westgate, co-founder of Lullabot and Buzzr performance advisor; and Liza Kindred, Business Manager of Lullabot and president of Buzzr.
We got it all on tape. And you can listen in.
http://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/podcast-84-all-about-buzzr
The subject was Buzzr -- where it came from, what it does, who it's for, how it works, and where it's going.
New Podcast about Buzzr on DrupalEasy.com
The guys at DrupalEasy were nice enough to spend an afternoon talking to us about the latest at Buzzr, and Buzzr can make it more straightforward to get a Drupal-powered site up and going.
Here's the link: http://bit.ly/9ygp95
Buzzr Rolls Out National Sales Force; White Label Multi-Site Edition Officially Launches
San Francisco (April 19, 2010) - Buzzr.com, a partnership with Drupal powerhouse Lullabot, today announced the official launch of Buzzr Enterprise Edition, a turn-key multi-site white label solution for organizations that need to rapidly and cost-effectively create and maintain many robust websites or microsites.
Check Out Our New Videos
We've just released a six-part instructional series of videos that takes you behind the scenes of running a Buzzr site. Created by popular demand of our customers.
Many thanks to Addison Berry for her excellent work. Find the videos under the Demo tab of our main menu.
New Video Interview about Buzzr from Gotham Media
Gordon Platt of Gotham Media came by our office yesterday and interviewed me about what's going on at Buzzr.
Here's the tape: http://blog.gothammediaventures.com/?p=621
Good interview. But I need to remember to sit up straight!
Buzzr Sets Up Shop at NYC Incubator
We're pleased to have been accepted by the NYU/Poly Incubator, sponsored by the NYC Economic Development Corporation.
The incubator has been getting a lot of press lately, including stories in the New York Times, http://bit.ly/7qWatZ and BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8290555.stm
A few hundred applied and about 30 were accepted.
Aside from a fairly swank office in downtown NYC, we're happy to be surrounded by a couple of dozen other entrepreneurs -- from one person start ups to 10-person early stage companies.
CMS Wire Update on Buzzr.com Highlights Benefits of our Drupal UX layer
Great update on Buzzr from Dee-Ann LeBlanc of CMS Wure: http://bit.ly/LdDcF
First time we make the analogy that Buzzr is the "automatic transmission" to Drupal's "clutch" -- a lot more people can drive an automatic, even as sports car enthusiasts wouldn't want to give up the power of the clutch.
More highlights:
Ten of Thousands of Websites Are Using Buzzr Software Before We’re Even in Public Alpha. What’s the Deal?
Buzzr, our platform for simplifying the creation of sophisticated websites, has been in development for more than a year now. Yet even though we aren’t public yet, tens of thousands of sites have already adopted software from the project. More than 100,000 sites, we estimate. How? Open Source.
For this of you not too familiar with open source technology projects, a word of explanation is necessary. Strange as it may seem, we’ve released, free of charge, interesting parts of our work (“modules”) well before we were ready to release it on our own site. We’ve also contributed extensive work we’ve done on existing modules to make them much better.
The work ranges from making it easier for website visitors to vote on content they like, to making it easier to create a custom form, to making it easier to configure a website to begin with.
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