How does buzznet work

The company will focus on entertainment, especially music, he added. We seek to provide exciting experiences to the communities which are following those three entertainment properties," Levin wrote.

All three outlets still list SpinMedia as their respective owners, and the SpinMedia site itself still lists all three as part of its music network; additionally, the top editors at each site appear to have remained in place.

Levin also indicated that this is just the beginning for Hive, as it looks to "expand across genres to build an all-inclusive experience catering to everyone who loves music. Founded in with head writer Brian Raftery, then led from until by Maura Johnston, Idolator developed a snarky, winking voice as it weighed in on pop music and the fan culture surrounding it. BuzzMedia budget cuts in April gutted the staff and contributors, and Johnston handled things solo before departing in November of that year.

Robbie Daw took over the site and remains its editor-in-chief to this date. Hive declined to comment on financial terms, as well as the possibility of purchasing further sites from SpinMedia. No one was really doing photos. So my partner, Marc Brown, and I decided we wanted to do photo blogging. That's where the root came from. We focused on allowing members to blog using photos, and we continued to extend that into using video, and of course text.

We're about nine people, located in Los Angeles, California. We're kind of going after a completely different user. We think our kind of user has been missed by products out there now.

We're seeing growth in all areas, specifically, we're seeing our page growth growing twenty percent each month. We're in pretty good shape. At a high level it's hard to see the differentiation, but if you study our pages you'll see the differentiation right away.

We're very much not about shouting out or hooking up, we're really about creating social media generated by the member. BK: So you're closer to a YouTube or something like that? AB: Well a YouTube is a media categorization and sharing system. You look at YouTube carefully, there's not a lot of community around the content.

We're about creating social media, that's the story here. I think that's great, let people chase that. What we're really trying to do here is change media. We're at a sea-change of how media will operate, and that's where we're at. People create their own media, remix their own media, and they want to share that in a more meaningful way than a file system. We've created that capability.

For example, if you're a fan of a band, say My Chemical Romance, and you have photos of them, you want to contribute your photos to a place that has all the photos and the community My Chemical Romance. Goldman said he sees Buzznet as "much more competitive in term of an offering with an MTV.

That's some ambition. And when the economy's grown tepid, the music industry has fallen and can't get up, and every day another blogger is talking about the tech bubble bursting, saying that you want to be the next mass-media hotspot is bound to raise a few eyebrows.

Buzznet's strategy is unapologetically think-big. Instead of starting from a grassroots following, the way MySpace did as a hub for independent band promotion, Buzznet wants to break out at the top by scoring high-profile investors, tasty acquisitions, and powerful partnerships. Goldman declined to comment on that. And Goldman said that next week, Buzznet will make the first of a number of partnership announcements designed to get more audio content on the site.

When asked if that meant a record label deal, Goldman replied. BuzzNet is a photo-sharing community. First, the basics. You can check out a quick tour here that shows how it all works. Sign up for a free BuzzNet account and you can upload photos directly to their website, or email photos with a unique email address that contains a keyword you choose.