Canadian treehuggers, penguins, and journalists strike it rich on the web
1. ClubPenguin.com, a virtual playground for kids (and animated penguins), sold to Disney for $350M. The company is based in British Columbia.
2. NowPublic.com, a crowd-powered news site (AKA citizen journalism), received $10.6M in financing. The company is also based in British Columbia.
3. Treehugger.com, a popular (and my favourite) green-friendly blog, sold to Discovery Communications for a reported $10M. The company's founder is a Canadian from Ottawa.
In my humble world, our video podcast commandN is celebrating its 100th episode tonight in Toronto. We are accepting million-dollar purchase offers, or simply show up and raise a glass or two with us at our party. All welcome.
Cogratulations on your 100th episode. I have enjoyed them all, but I am surprised how quickly you got to 100. My show also celebrates 100 episodes this weekend but that was over 2 years.
Posted by:Chris (Amateur Traveler podcast) | August 02, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Take lots of pictures for those of us too far away to attend.
Posted by:John | August 02, 2007 at 12:13 PM
Congrats on your 100th Episode. Wow!
take care, Chris
Posted by:Christoph | August 02, 2007 at 01:11 PM
I'll be there Amber :) oh and BTW I'll take a cool million too for http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/ btw any possibility of doing a little promo interview on cp24... we have mostly Canadian members... over 800 and growing...
Posted by:Bart Dabek | August 02, 2007 at 02:35 PM
I was really happy to see the investment in NowPublic, but have some thoughs about NowPublic's ability to cover a story like the bridge collapse.
Posted by:Tod Maffin | August 02, 2007 at 04:00 PM
I was stunned by Club Penguin's success. I was trying to think of other Canadian Internet success stories of a similar magnitude. I blogged about a few (eg. LavaLife, Flickr, CryptoLogic) and wanted to find other Canadian Internet success stories.
I mentioned NowPublic and Cambrian House (mentioned in Business 2.0 this month) but am looking for any others as I don’t think Canadians celebrate their successes enough (however limited that may be).
Any help is appreciated...
http://glenfarrelly.blogspot.com/
Posted by:Glen Farrelly | August 03, 2007 at 02:31 PM
Judging by my kids (9 and 10 years old) interest in Club Penguin, I'm not surprised by the service's popularity. It is Second Life for kids, and from what I can tell, is safe for them to be on.
Posted by:Jim Guistwite | August 04, 2007 at 12:09 PM
hey that is pretty creepy, anyways people are just jealous of you
Posted by:rico | August 18, 2007 at 11:24 PM