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Crowd Fusion Beta
Progress report

Oct 21, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

Yesterday, I emailed a progress report to the members of our beta program. Many people wrote back to say that they're comfortable running a platform that has frequent updates, so we'll see what we can do to speed up giving them access. Here's a copy of&hellip Read More

Crowd Fusion Beta
Crowd Fusion beta and open source information

Sep 23, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

We've received a lot of questions about our open source private beta process. Everyone who applied for beta access was sent the following email two days ago. For those of you who didn't apply we are republishing it here. Thanks for signing up for Crowd&hellip Read More

TechCrunch50 2009
Crowd Fusion goes open source at TechCrunch50

Sep 15, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

For the past six months we have been gearing up for a release that will put our Crowd Fusion framework in the hands of hundreds and hopefully thousands of developers and media companies. The timing was right, so we applied for TechCrunch50 and were&hellip Read More

This Week In Startups
Brian Alvey on Crowd Fusion, Weblogs, Inc. and more

May 15, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the new Jason Calacanis-hosted video show This Week In Startups. It was only their first episode, but the production setup was remarkable. His team members really know what they're doing. From&hellip Read More

ReadWriteWeb, Others
Blogging Dream Team Joins Forces to Challenge Engadget, TreeHugger and More

Apr 29, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

Here's a recap of some of the coverage of our Obsessable launch taken from my blog: David Krugposted a little about Crowd Fusion and Obsessable: On Assembling Blog Dream Teams. However, I really believe the web is huge and has many opportunities to&hellip Read More

Velocity Interactive Group, Others
Crowd Fusion's Series A Financing Round

Apr 23, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

Velocity Interactive Group issued a press release about our funding last July (PDF). In it, Velocity partner Jon Miller said: Crowd Fusion is the perfect complement to Velocity's existing portfolio. We believe in Brian's innovative vision for a new&hellip Read More

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

Apr 18, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

Eric Eldon broke the news last summer about our Series A funding on VentureBeat. How to publish on the web? Crowd Fusion, currently in stealth, is promising some fancy-sounding features like “Innovative content management, database management &&hellip Read More

CMS Wire
Weblogs Co-Founder To Launch new CMS Crowd Fusion

Apr 12, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

After TechCrunch spotted our site, David Dahlquist covered Crowd Fusion on CMS Wire. "Be excited," he says. Speculators believe that Crowd Fusion may be the next generation of Blogsmith, another one of Alvey's projects, since it includes a number of&hellip Read More

TechCrunch
Weblogs, Inc. Co-Founder Brian Alvey To Launch Crowd Fusion

Apr 04, 2009 • Brian Alvey •

In February 2007 the Crowd Fusion domain was redirecting to my blog. I was talking to potential investors and my own blog says nothing about what Crowd Fusion is about. So we created a one-page site that listed the three key people involved at the time&hellip Read More

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