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Kimber and Preston Craig are DJing after the Snowden show at 529 for East Atlanta Social Club.

Dave., it was great having you make the trip down... I enjoyed your video a lot! We're looking forward to Mashville! We'll definitely make the trip up there for that!
It was a great night and we are just so happy that it was full of great people (like yourself) and that everyone had such a good time. Not one negative comment on twitter is a miracle for something like this!!!
Anyways, have a good weekend and thanks for coming down! Next time you are in town, let me know and we can catch up over a beer!

p.s. We actually ended up with 442 people at the party!

Jonathan - It's interesting... we were quite down the road on an eerily similar feature about 6 months ago for Regator. Then we took a step back to see if it was the right thing to do, after a lot of arguing we figured that it wasn't and we would piss off more people (and the wrong people) than it would benefit us. Granted, we aren't Digg. We do wish them the best of luck on this and I am sure that they knew what they were getting themselves into (they're not stupid), but changing this perception will be a fairly uphill fight for them.

This is a brilliant new feature to harness the power of the distributed conversation. Nice work!

The Regator team is excited to be partnering with Mashable to bring them to the ATL for the first time! It's going to be a big night and will show what our Southern hospitality, social media and startup communities are all about.
Cheers!

Hey Chris - Great list! You might want to also take a look at Regator as far as streams of information in blogs go. There's a lot of different stuff to find and enjoy.

I had twobots doing my bidding for a very short time a while back and ended up getting rid of the auto-reply very quickly. I never had anyone complain about mine as I tried to make it sound like me with no links etc, but I figured if I was annoying others as much as they were annoying me. I had to stop it. I did. By the way, this comment was auto-generated. @regator

I agree with pretty much everything in this post. What I also think we'll start to see is more big media buys in the blog and uber blog space in the next year. They know they are on the outs and it comes down to not so much if they will buy, but how much of the market they will buy. This may not happen completely in 2009 but I think we'll start to see the beginning of it for sure. There has been consolidation and buying up of prominent blog brands and creation of uberblogs over the last couple of years, but that's mostly been done by other blogs. I think an interesting thing to ponder is how blogging as we know it will survive once big media really wants to play in this market. They have the money (still), professional writers and if they think that buying these brands will help them compete and add ad revenue and future-proof them as much as possible, they will do it and I would expect in droves once they figure it out. It will be very lucrative for many of the existing large players who can persevere but I don't see much of a commercially viable place for smaller one person blogs and anything but the most committed and organized co-op blogs. Maybe it won't happen this way, but what I can say that this time next year I don't think blogging as it stands will look the same whatever the case.

It's an interesting little post. I've witnessed some fairly despicable behaviour on twitter (especially) that could definitely be seen in many courts as defamatory or libelous. People have to learn that just because you are online, it doesn't mean you are anonymous or that it gives you an excuse to be hateful for the thrill of it. My general rule is to talk to people online like my mum or grandmother would read it. Works for me.

Nice list... I'll have to go check em out.

If you look at the label it looks like they put a Hoegaarden label on the VB... which would make sense why there is orange peel.

Thanks everyone for voting for http://regator.com in the Social News category to get us into the Top 3! We're stoked! Cheers!
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Hi! Thanks to everyone for voting for Regator.com we really appreciate it!
Haven't voted yet? You can vote for us here: http://www.regator.com/blog
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Thanks for your support guys, it's much appreciated! We're working hard to get Regator into the final 3 in the Open Web Awards. We've got some big competition and we're fairly new, but people like the site and going out of their way to vote for us! Which is awesome!
We love getting the Aussie votes! We'll be sure to keep you guys updated on our progress!
Cheers,
Scott (the Aussie co-founder)

@ Greg I always get those two mixed up... :)

Good luck with the site. Looks good - see you at Inman.

This is from the same guys that formerly ran eNeighborhoods(remax.com, etc...), Andy Wooley and Greg Robertson. With their existing close ties and relationships within the real estate technology industry and major brokerages, they have an distinct advantage over any other startup in this space coming in cold. Plus, they are smart guys so even though this looks like a bit of a fail to a casual observer, if played right it could work out nicely. Why? Most people use a combination of websites to search for the right home to buy and currently there is no place to centrally manage the listings that you are interested in, let alone one that monitors them and keeps their status updated.

Thanks Louis... We'll check these out for Regator if they aren't already on.
Cheers!

This is a good move for the CSM. A weekly magazine can better highlight the long-form news features that they are known for and significantly reduce their headcount and production costs along the way. I would agree that they would have to be one of the more progressive print media companies out there and they will certainly have advantages if they can keep up their editorial quality while maintaining profitability in this hybrid magazine/online format.

Another resource for finding new stuff and the best blog posts out there is Regator (www.regator.com). In fact, I found this post on Regator.
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Chris - i hope I passed the test at BlogWorld! I did have Louis Gray as my wingman which probably helped. ;) I would also add that especially in the case where one of the people may think that you want something from them (publicity, business opportunity, etc)one shouldn't be clingy. I prefer to go for long term relationships which means they can start slow and grow. I guess i did okay at BlogWorld as I came home with a ridiculous stack of business cards.

We are no longer in private beta! The site is wide open for everyone to use.

Brilliant post. I would say that the early adopter crowd in the valley and elsewhere does has value as they can help you shake down your site really well in the beginning. But you have to be mindful that if you are looking for a larger more mainstream, or as we like to say, a "normal people" audience, you will not please all the geekorati all the time, they might not get why it is not employing 15 different APIs and you have to be okay with that. These users can also skew your site to a tech focus, if there is a lot of user interaction (like ours) and that can put off normal people from getting engaged when they do encounter the site. It's all about balance.

You can nominate your blog for inclusion onto www.regator.com which launched a week ago. Regator is a hand-picked collection of the web's best blogs with tools to make it easy to find, organize and share whatever interests you in nearly 500 categories. It also drives traffic back to your blog. You should check it out!

I think that it is easier to start-up these days as initial costs can be kept fairly low through development. Where bootstrapping really kind of hits the wall is when you are looking to scale and market. For most smaller teams that are working on passion and hopefully a good idea, it is generally speaking unsustainable without additional funds to make it a real business and more than just another website. You get to a point where you need to give full time attention to the project to really make it go somewhere. For some this happens faster than others and depends on the founding team. Luckily I am not at that point right now, however I also see a light at the end of the tunnel - which definitely helps.

Thanks for the write up. We are really happy to have TechNation Australia on Regator.