[IP] more on Blog Buzz on FON
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: February 20, 2006 12:44:23 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <dewayne-net@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Blog Buzz on FON
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[Note: This item comes from reader Scott Berry. I've been sitting
on this. Time to get it out. DLH]
From: Scott Berry <sjb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: February 9, 2006 8:15:05 AM PST
To: dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Blog Buzz on FON
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Dewayne,
For Dewayne-net.
Scott
Blog Buzz on High-Tech Start-Ups
Causes Some Static
By REBECCA BUCKMAN
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
February 9, 2006; Page B4
When Spanish Internet start-up FON Technology SL tried to generate
some buzz this past weekend about new funding it had snared from
Google Inc. andeBay Inc.'s Skype Technologies, it pitched stories
to traditional media outlets.
But the tiny company also got publicity from another source:
influential commentators on the Internet who write blogs --
including some who may be compensated in the future for advising
FON about its business.
Most of the nine members of FON's U.S. advisory board, including
former newspaper journalist Dan Gillmor, technology author David
Weinberger and Internet-law expert Wendy Seltzer, wrote about FON
on their blogs late Sunday. That was right after FON founder Martin
Varsavsky revealed on his own blog that the closely held company
had raised $21.7 million in funding from Google, Skype and others,
declaring it "a dream come true."
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