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Weblogs, Inc. Co-Founder Brian Alvey To Launch Crowd Fusion
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 and offered a contact form. Michael Arrington's uncanny psychic powers somehow detected our landing page and with very few facts he wrote a great article on Crowd Fusion on TechCrunch and put that contact form to work.
From what we hear (I haven't been able to speak to Alvey yet), the company will provide a hosted all-in-one platform for blogging, wikis, podcasting, standard web pages, forums, etc., and will also allow management of a variety of properties under a single dashboard. It will compete directly with blogging platforms like Wordpress.com and Typepad, as well as more industrial strength CMS systems that large publishers use.
Crowd Fusion doesn't directly compete with WordPress and I traded love letters with Matt Mullenweg in TechCrunch's comments. We also don't have forums yet and we're not really a podcasting company, but the rest was accurate including the part about me working on raising money.
My favorite quote from Mike's article?
If anyone can build it, Alvey and co-founder Craig Wood (also of Weblogs, Inc.) can.
Thanks!
