Ever since I left TG Daily, a lot of industry connections asked me what were my plans for the future. After a brief stint over at Jon Peddie’s Research and the recession that well, didn’t exactly work in my favor – I decided to launch a website on my own.
But, the goal of the project was not just a website… if I experienced something, that is the need of this industry for open communication, from manufacturers to consumers and back. This industry made its naming conventions so confusing that even the best of us get confused… enter Bright Side of News.
With this project, whole team of people gathered in a bid to make something different. We hope that we will succeed in our quest. As far as this blog is go, I will not shut it down… I will put my ramblings here and there, and link to stories to our main site, so keep it in your RSS readers.
The time has come for the rollout...
But for now, I invite you to visit the Bright Side of News. Site is in web beta status, currently at version 0.4. This has nothing to do with content, but with programming features. We will load the stories during the week, and as of today, it is business as usual… by weeks’ end, there will be around 60 stories on the site… 
We plan to gradually put more and more features and put v1.0 (and remove version markings) in the next two weeks. We simply had to launch to see how the server will handle the load and did we pull a Windows Vista or a Windows 7
The site has impressive numbers of lines of code (over 200,000 lines), and we will use our own-developed BSN* Live CMS as a platform for our current and future publications…once that we have BSN* Live CMS into mature and rounded development phase, you can expect something in the way of WordPress, but this time, using platforms developed by Microsoft.
Once that v1.0 is live, you’ll know why we decided to go with Microsoft technologies.
Given the fact that I haven’t slept for two days, I am paying special regards to Kenneth from VikingReviews, who was the first to capture that we went live. In case that you eat danish rather than speak it, you can see the translation here.
Good luck!
By: Jens (Planet 3DNow!) on March 23, 2009
at 12:44
Good Luck BSN* team! My first impression when seeing the site was “oh, what a contrast: bright side of news, dark website style”. But looks good
By: Darco (HDTV.com.hr) on March 25, 2009
at 21:49
Thanks…. so far, the number of readers is overwhelming, we’re ramping up.
The only problem is the mail server, and we’re having issues sending people confirmation e-mails for their accounts… we will fix that today or tomorrow… accounts are active, btw, I manually activated them.
but darn…
By: Theo Valich on March 25, 2009
at 22:01
Yeah, I haven’t received that mail also. Should I make another registration or the e-mail will come eventually?
P.S. The more I look at the site the more I like it! News are great!
By: Darco on March 27, 2009
at 12:29
Your account is activated, just like anyone elses… I made sure of that
You’re free to login using your login name and password, and post comments as you please…
By: Theo on March 27, 2009
at 12:31