Back in October, while moderating a panel at PaidContent.org’s “Future of Business Media” conference in New York, I asked IDG CEO Bob Carrigan about the rumors that The Industry Standard would be relaunching online as a dejazine (although, I feel 100% sure I didn’t use that term). Bob indicated that it would be launching last December as a “very innovative social media platform†that aggregates input from the community in a prediction market thing.”
While the site didn’t relaunch publicly last December, it has now.
Bonus link: PaidContent.org’s David Kaplan’s interview with Bob Carrigan.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
[...] There’s lots of chit-chat this morning about The Industry Standard — one of the leading lights of the tech publishing business during the first bubble — relaunching as a Web-only publication, something that was expected to happen in December, according to a report from the always reliable Rex Hammock, but didn’t wind up taking place until now. The site will be using outside contributors such as Matt Marshall of Venturebeat and Fred Wilson of A VC, and it also has an interesting “prediction market” feature that should be fun to watch as it develops. [...]