I've set up this blog for you to announce updates to your web 2.0 app. Send me your updates by email or post them directly to the blog.

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5 points·amichail··7 comments

Who are you, and why do you think people should fill out your blog with news for you?

How about you manually contact every Web 2.0 startup asking them for data to populate your blog with? That will make more sense: if you in need, you go out and ask.

This is for people who need to promote their startup and don't have a significant traffic source.

If enough people contribute to this blog, it might become popular thus providing these people with a source of traffic.

So in essence, people would contribute to this blog for the same reason that they would contribute to freshmeat.

Owners of Web 2.0 startups have far more to gain from this than Amichail does. Generally, economic returns accrue to those who do the difficult parts; it's far more difficult to start a Web 2.0 company than setup a blog, so far more gain accrues to the users of this than the blog itself.

I, for one, plan to use it as soon as we launch our startup. Unfortunately it's not much good if you're not ready for traffic, but I think it'll be a nifty added source of exposure.

You're assuming anyone will read it. I'm afraid this is far from given.

If nobody reads it, you're out the 30 seconds it takes to post. I'll take that bargain...

If you would like to post updates directly to the blog, please send me your email to amichail@gmail.com so that I can give you permission to do so.

Hey sure, will do.

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I've set up this blog for you to announce *updates* to your web 2.0 app. Send me your updates by email or post them directly to the blog.

I've set up this blog for you to announce updates to your web 2.0 app. Send me your updates by email or post them directly to the blog.