Brian Alvey

[KYGREEN] Earline Wooldridge POWELL Obit 2008

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Karen_Jorgensen Surnames: Wooldridge, Powell, White, Patton, Rodriquez, Allgood, Dicken Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.green/18307/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Central Kentucky News Journal, on-line obits: 3 Aug 2008 Earline Wooldridge Powell, 79, of Green County, Ky., died Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisvi...

Marc Andreesen/Others Back Vertical Desitination's Crowd Fusion's

Crowd Fusion has yet to launch a site but the New York-based startup has just raised $3M in Series A funding. Velocity Interactive Group led the round with Greycroft Partners and Marc Andreesen. Crowd Fusion is the new home for a group of former execs at Weblogs Inc. - the company founded by Jason Calacanis which was bought by AOL. The founders are led by: + Brian Alvey (CEO) was co-founder of Weblogs Inc. and its Blogsmith platform. + Judith Meskill (COO) was VP & Social Media Officer at BabyC...

CrowdFusion Picks Up $3 Million for Web Publishing

Rafat Ali at PaidContent is reporting that Web publishingt startup CrowdFusion has raised $3 million in their first round of funding. The investors include Velocity Interactive Group, Greycroft Partners, and Marc Andreessen. CrowdFusion was founded by former Weblogs Inc CEO Brian Alvey. Rafat notes, "The new company is an online publishing platform that will own and develop a series of vertical content sites, not very different from the Weblogs Inc-Blogsmith model that Alvey developed before, a...

Foreigner Hits LA and NY To Promote National Tour and New Compilation

Band will perform live on KLOS' "Mark and Brian In The Morning," NBC's "Today Show," and CBS' "Early Show."

Posada to undergo surgery, Hal in the house, trade talk and other items

Jorge Posada will undergo surgery on his right shoulder later this week, and faces a minimum of six months surgery. Within the half hour, GM Brian Cashman informed the writers of his meeting - in the trainer's room - with...

Honeywell supports Operators at the 2008 Olympic Games

Brian Davis, Vice President – Global Technical Operations With the 2008 Olympic Games fast approaching, our team is busy preparing to support our operators who plan to fly into Beijing International Airport to attend the games Aug. 8-24. We’ll have...

Brian Munz, Age 24, Identified As Firefighter Who Perished In Illinois

Brian Munz of the Fairbury Fire Department has been identified as having lost his life in the house fire we posted about this morning. Here are a few details: Fairbury residents are mourning the loss of a firefighter. 24-year-old Brian...

Homophonic Gay Music Artists Vlog: Our Lady J

-- Brian Juergens from AfterElton.com Our Lady J is a woman on a musical mission of biblical proportions. This week on Homophonic, she takes her heavenly throne next to Alex on the couch for a revival of some of her...

What's Your Story...Brian Irvine

By Karl Haglund I love IMCA Stock Cars. If one were to discuss the IMCA stock car for even a few minutes quite a few names would inevitably be brought up. One of those names would have to be Brian...

Official announcement regarding my retirement from blogging.

"It's with a heavy heart, and much consideration, that today I would like to announce my retirement from blogging." Jason McCabe Calacanis, July 11th 2008. This was an extremely difficult decision, and I haven't made it lightly. After five years I'm not sure I know any other way of being but the blog, but at some point you have to hang it up. I know that I had made the right decision for me and my family. I am very proud of the success that we have had in blogging and I leave the game with few r...