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SXSW Video
Download Squad interview with Brian Alvey at SXSW

Mar 23, 2010 • C.K. Sample III •

Crowd Fusion CEO Brian Alvey spoke with Download Squad at SXSW Interactive last week. In the video embedded below, Brian answers how Crowd Fusion scales both for traffic and for managing large amounts of content, while providing the best combination of&hellip Read More

Beta Update
Beta Update: Crowd Fusion 2.0.0

Mar 08, 2010 • C.K. Sample III •

A few weeks ago, we sent out the following email to all the people who have signed up for our beta program: Dear Fusioneers -- Today we are rolling out our first major open source release: Crowd Fusion 2.0.0. Crowd Fusion is still evolving at a rapid&hellip Read More

NYTech Video
Crowd Fusion NYTech Meetup Presentation

Mar 03, 2010 • C.K. Sample III •

Crowd Fusion CEO Brian Alvey took the stage last night at New York Tech Meetup to give a quick 5-minute demo of the Crowd Fusion platform and some history behind the company. The video of the presentation is embedded below courtesy of New York Tech&hellip Read More

Crowd Fusion Events
Crowd Fusion at NYTech Meetup and SXSW: Come meet us!

Mar 01, 2010 • C.K. Sample III •

Crowd Fusion will be attending two upcoming events and we'd love to meet anyone interested in the Crowd Fusion platform and CMS and what we're working on as a company. First up: the NYTech Meetup is being held tomorrow night, March 2, 2010, at 7pm in&hellip Read More

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

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