John Battelle

Google’s Plans to Promote Google+ in Search Get a Poor Reception

Liz Gannes in Social on January 10 at 12:32 pm PT

Some Internet thought leaders are none too happy about Google’s announcement today that it will prominently feature Google+ posts and users in search results.

Federated Media Promotes President and COO Brown to CEO, Replacing Battelle

Kara Swisher in News on February 2, 2011 at 3:00 am PT

Deanna Brown will become CEO of Federated Media Publishing, replacing Founding CEO John Battelle, the online media company said. Brown was brought in 18 months ago as president and COO, after stints at Yahoo, AOL and Scripps Networks Digital. Battelle will become executive chairman, as well as chief strategy officer.

Federated Media Makes Another Buy: Foodbuzz

Kara Swisher in News on November 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm PT

Federated Media Publishing, which recently bought a community platform aimed at parents, announced tonight that it was making another buy. This time, it is a food blog community site called Foodbuzz, as FM seeks to create large networks of niche content to better sell premium advertising. According to the site, it has exclusive deals to sell advertising for 4,400 independent food bloggers, making it a top food property.

Federated Media Snaps Up BigTent

Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Federated Media, the San Francisco-based advertising and publishing network, has acquired BigTent, a platform hosting more than 15,000 communities, mostly made up of parenting groups, especially moms. Terms of the deal with BigTent, also located in San Francisco, were not disclosed. In an interview, FM CEO John Battelle said the move was to further strengthen its tools for both the advertisers and publishers it serves, especially to create better “content conversations.”

Viral Chart: The Web 2.0 Summit's "Points of Control"

Kara Swisher in News on August 29, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Here is a cool chart from the Web 2.0 Summit–what the O’Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb conference is calling “visual representation” of its theme of “Points of Control: The Battle for the Network Economy.” As it is described on its Web site, the map (which is the brainchild of Web 2.0 impresario John Battelle) chronicles “these shifting points of control–strategic chokepoints on an increasingly crowded board.”

Skype on a Plane? Please Don’t.

Peter Kafka in Media on March 11, 2010 at 1:46 pm PT

More and more airlines are adding wireless, which means you can now turn your seat into a flying videoconference room. But you shouldn’t.

Google Advertises…Google Advertising

Peter Kafka in Media on January 25, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

Does Google really need to tout the benefits of Google search? Still, these spots are pretty clever. So no complaints here.

Live-Blogging the "Whither Journalism" Panel With Google, HuffPo, NYT and WSJ

Shira Ovide, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 21, 2009 at 6:07 pm PT

It’s a face-off between new and traditional media at the Web 2.0 Summit. Representing new media, in a discussion over the future of journalism, are Federated Media’s John Battelle; Marissa Mayer, who leads Google’s search services and consumer products like Chrome; and Huffington Post CEO Eric Hippeau. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal’s top editor, Robert Thomson, stand in for the old guard.

Federated Media Will Search for New Leader Says Founder and CEO Battelle (Plus a Web Squared and Double-D Video!)

Kara Swisher in News on May 15, 2009 at 10:32 am PT

John Battelle, the founder, chairman and CEO of Federated Media Publishing, told his staff this morning that he will begin a search for a new top exec to take the company into its next stage of growth. In a post on the FM Web site, Battelle said that he was not leaving the San Francisco-based company and wrote that the new exec–whose title could be CEO–would report to him.

Web 2.0 Expo: An “American Idol” for Start-Ups

Marisa Taylor, Tech Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 3, 2009 at 5:13 pm PT

During the “Launch Pad” session, five start-ups took a grilling from developers, journalists and venture capitalists, then faced a crowd vote at the Web 2.0 Expo’s version of “American Idol.” As attendees texted their votes, moderator John Battelle, founder of Federated Media Publishing, jokingly asked: “Want to have a dance-off?” None were necessary. The techies in attendance were starry-eyed for all things mobile, picking Nitobi’s PhoneGap, an open-source tool for building mobile apps, as the People’s Choice winner. Life-tracking site zeaLOG was a close second.