{"id":2303,"date":"2008-03-31T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/?p=2303"},"modified":"2008-03-31T07:50:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T12:50:07","slug":"publish2-gets-series-a-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-gets-series-a-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish2 gets Series A financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Scott Karp and his team at Publish2, who just announced that they have closed a $2.75-million <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.publish2.com\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-gets-funded-by-velocity-interactive-group\/\">round of Series A funding<\/a> from Ross Levinsohn&#8217;s Velocity Interactive Group. Scott was one of the most perceptive writers about the future of digital media while he was with Atlantic Media (which publishes The Atlantic magazine), and last year he left that job to pursue his vision of how traditional media can use social tools &#8212; such as the Publish2 social bookmarking platform &#8212; to improve and extend their reporting onto the Web. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying out the beta for awhile and reading what Scott <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.publish2.com\/2008\/03\/09\/local-link-journalism-pulling-together-the-threads-of-local-blogger-reporting\/\">has written<\/a> about the trials he has done with U.S. papers, and I think he is definitely on to something. I&#8217;m looking forward to finding out what else he has up his sleeve. There are some <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-raises-a-round-aims-to-bring-more-journalists-to-the-web\/\">more details<\/a> at VentureBeat and Jeff Jarvis (who is on Publish2&#8217;s board) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2s-funding\/\">has a post<\/a> as well. Steven Hodson at Winextra thinks that by focusing on journalists, Scott has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winextra.com\/2008\/03\/31\/are-bloggers-being-stiffed-by-one-of-their-own\/\">turned his back<\/a> on the blogosphere (but see Scott&#8217;s comment on Steven&#8217;s post for clarification).<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Om Malik (a <strike>former<\/strike> journalist himself) says he thinks Scott is a smart guy, but he doesn&#8217;t see the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-velocity\/\">business potential<\/a> in Publish2. Mike Arrington <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/03\/31\/heres-a-screenshot-of-publish2\/\">also seems skeptical<\/a> &#8212; or maybe it&#8217;s just because he didn&#8217;t get an invite to the beta \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Scott Karp and his team at Publish2, who just announced that they have closed a $2.75-million round of Series A funding from Ross Levinsohn&#8217;s Velocity Interactive Group. Scott was one of the most perceptive writers about the future of digital media while he was with Atlantic Media (which publishes The Atlantic magazine), and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/31\/publish2-gets-series-a-financing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Publish2 gets Series A financing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}