Calacanis spins blogware off into separate company
by Duncan
August 18, 2005
Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc., has announced the spin off of his custom blogware application “Blog Smith” into a seperate company.
BlogSmith LLC is to be headed by Gordon Gold, President of Rising Tide Studios/Silicon Alley Reporter and the founder of UPOC and will compete directly against Six Apart in targeting corporate blogging accounts.
Their first client to run the blogware is Razor Magazine.
I don’t think we will put much of a dent in Six Apart’s business any time soon… but if anyone is interesed in being part of the beta of Blogsmith they can email me at jason at weblogsinc.com
best j
Blogware is such an unfortunate word to use – other then the generic category, it’s also the name of a specific product by Tucows, and as such a BlogSmith competitor.
It does not have a brand comparable to Typepad and WordPress ..etc, largely because I think Tucows scr*wed up their branding: they let resellers use their own brand name. So I am a happy blogware user, but it’s really known as BlogHarbor, the reseller.