Archive for November, 2008

CASHING IN with CASHMORE at Blog08.

Pete Cashmore, the famed creator of Mashable, the social networking news site, was the first speaker at Blog08, telling us how to build a blog empire. He should know, because, as the Blog08 site tells us, Mashable has 5 million monthly pageviews and Cashmore was recently named the 22nd most important Web Celeb by Forbes.com The twenty three year-old English-born, Scottish-raised internet entrepreneur was at ease on stage as he imparted his wisdom to the crowd. He confided that he’d been unwell as a youngster so hadn’t been able to attend college or university, concentrating on the money-making opportunities that the internet could provide him. At first, Cashmore had wanted to build his own social network, but while he was working out how to do this, he started blogging about the social networks that already existed or were then in development. That’s how Mashable came about and now his site is THE authority on social networking. In a nutshell, Cashmore says that in order to build a blog empire, you have to eat, live and breathe the business, which is exactly what he’d done himself. In Mashable’s early days, Cashmore existed on four hours’ sleep per night, but the effort […]

Warning: you may like to grab a cuppa and take your time with this post. It’s a LONG one.

We have a full house

Folks, I’m stunned, within literally 60 minutes of announcing the next meetup, we have a full house. As of this morning, there are over 25 people on the waiting list so please, if you change your mind and decide not to come, change your RSVP on Meetup. This will free up places for those waiting for a spot. I’m guessing the popularity is based on our guest speaker, the fabulous Melanie Seasons from Fakeplasticnoodles.com. I’m very much looking forward to hearing the what, where, when, how and why of FPN! Hope to see you on the 18th. Andy PS congrats to Barack Obama by the way!