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The outpouring of good wishes has been incredible today.
After such a crappy thing to announce, I’m excited to say I have a positive announcement to make on Monday.
Thanks everyone. This community has been truly the best to work with!

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As I talk about the BIG VISION for BricaBox, I often find myself repeating a definition for “social content website” — because that’s the scope of our platform, and those are the kinds of sites we set out to power.
Currently, my best definition of “social content” is this:
“Websites where a group of people collaborate on [...]

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I just read Fred Wilson’s latest post, “As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo’s Board,” which was republished on Silicon Alley Insider.
Anyway, I thought that while we were all suggesting new board members for the bruised-up tech company we’re all coming around to love (I am), we should put all the nominations in one place [...]

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A few weeks ago, I got to sit down with Valerie Gurka of FearlessBusinessTV and talk about BricaBox and the trends we’re following. You can view the video here or below.

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Late Friday, I posted an item on the BricaBox Blog about a conversation I had with Fred Wilson about our company’s pitch.
Please head over there (you can also subscribe here) and let me know what you think about the “Ning for Content” pitch.
Also, if you’re interested, I created a “Best BricaBox Pitch” BricaBox.
I wanted [...]

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Joe Weisenthal reported yesterday that IAC is launching a new how-to video site called Life333.
One of the first questions he and others ask is, “Do we really need another how-to video site?”
My take is: yes… a few thousands more.
Part of our bet with BricaBox is that folks will want to create thousands of how-to sites, [...]

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Here’s one of the interviews I did while in Austin. Thanks InternetGeekGirl for having me in the bloghaus show!
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As I mentioned in my interview on Darren Herman’s blog today, we look up to David Karp and what’s going on at Tumblr a whole lot. In fact, I know that David, Kyle, and Marco are pretty good friends (when I’m out of the office you can occasionally find Kyle hanging out at their office) [...]

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Today is the 7th day BricaBox has been live (we launched last Tuesday). To commemorate this birthday, we have nothing less than major release ready for folks to play with.
Read about the release on the BricaBox Blog (biggest news: BricaBox now has date/time support in entry templates, paving the way for community calendars powered by [...]

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