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The Mobile Gadgeteer
Matthew Miller & Joel EvansGeek.com finds a new home
Summary
After a couple of acquisitions, Geek.com lands safely at Ziff Davis
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Matthew Miller
Biography
Matthew Miller
Matthew Miller is an avid mobile device enthusiast who works during the day as a professional naval architect in Seattle. He is one of three hosts on the MobileTechRoundup podcast and runs the Nokia Experts website. Matthew started using mobile devices in 1997 with a US Robotics Pilot 1000 and has owned over 90 different devices running Palm, Linux, Symbian, Newton, BlackBerry, Mac OS X (iPhone), Google Android, and Windows Mobile operating systems. His current collection includes a Nokia N85, Nokia E71, Nokia 5800, Nokia N810, Apple iPhone, HTC Advantage, T-Mobile G1, Palm Treo Pro, HTC Fuze, MSI Wind, MacBook Pro, and many more, along with tons of accessories and classic devices like the Apple Newton MessagePad 2100 and Sony CLIE UX50. Matthew co-authored Master Visually Windows Mobile 2003, was a member of the Nokia Nseries Blogger relations program, and is a member of the invite-only Microsoft Mobius mobile device evangelist group. He can be found on various discussion forums under the user name of "palmsolo".
Joel Evans
Biography
Joel Evans
With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands, technologies and services into the mobile and wireless space. Joel is currently serving as the Managing Director of Cronk Software, Inc., a company he founded to offer full-service, end-to-end mobile strategy, design and development services.
Joel is the former founder and "Chief Geek" of Geek.com, a website praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and others as one of world's best sources of information for technology professionals and enthusiasts.
Joel also serves as a technology expert for a number of well-known publications and regularly advises corporations, analysts, journalists and bloggers on what the future of technology will bring. He brings decades of relationships with leading game publishers, online communities and publishers, along with both hardware and software product management and delivery expertise. Joel can be found online as "JoelGeek" and you can follow him on Twitter @JoelGeek.
If you don’t know my history, I founded Geek.com in 1996. Since that time it has changed hands a couple of times and at the beginning of the year it found itself a new home.
Here’s the quick history:
- 1996: Founded in 1996 by Joel Evans, Rob Hughes and Sam Evans
- 2007: Sold to NameMedia
- May 13, 2010: Sold to Geeknet for $1 million
- January 4, 2011: Sold to Ziff Davis
As you can see above, Geek.com is now owned by Ziff Davis. I think it’s a perfect fit and it will probably be the last time we see Geek.com sold. I do have to admit that I was surprised that it didn’t live longer at Geeknet, especially since Geeknet also has Slashdot, ThinkGeek, and others, and that Geek.com has the first four letters of Geeknet’s name in it.
At any rate, Geek.com is still publishing with the same style that put it on the map to begin with. It sports an incredible team, many of whom were with me back in the early days, and is headed by Sal Cangeloso (founder of XYZComputing–acquired by NameMedia), one of the most talented editors I’ve ever worked with. I wish them lots of luck and I applaud Ziff Davis on a great acquisition.
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With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands and technologies into the mobile and wireless space.
Disclosure
Joel Evans
Joel is a serial entrepreneur with his most recent business, CronkSoftware (cronksoftware.com), focusing on consulting and building games and applications for mobile devices. Joel has consulted for Microsoft’s Windows Mobile division and advises other companies on how to incorporate mobile into their existing brands and products. Joel purchases many of his devices and others are sent for review on a 30-day loaner basis and then returned to the supplier. If any devices are provided as “keeper” Joel will clearly disclose this in his reviews.
Biography
Joel Evans
With more than a decade of mobile, Internet and wireless experience, Joel specializes in taking existing brands, technologies and services into the mobile and wireless space. Joel is currently serving as the Managing Director of Cronk Software, Inc., a company he founded to offer full-service, end-to-end mobile strategy, design and development services.
Joel is the former founder and "Chief Geek" of Geek.com, a website praised by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and others as one of world's best sources of information for technology professionals and enthusiasts.
Joel also serves as a technology expert for a number of well-known publications and regularly advises corporations, analysts, journalists and bloggers on what the future of technology will bring. He brings decades of relationships with leading game publishers, online communities and publishers, along with both hardware and software product management and delivery expertise. Joel can be found online as "JoelGeek" and you can follow him on Twitter @JoelGeek.
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CobraA101/18/2011 05:28 AM -
RE: Geek.com finds a new home
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ZDNet and Ziff Davis are completely separate companies. ZDNet is owned by CBS, and Ziff Davis is owned by its CEO and an investment firm.
aep52801/18/2011 01:00 PM -
As you can see...
...no one cares.
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