Newsvine
Description
Newsvine is a community website focused on news stories and opinions. Users can write articles, post links to external content, and chat about article pages created by both users and by professional journalists.
Seattle-based "Newsvine, Inc." was incorporated in March of 2005 by Calvin Tang. Mike Davidson, Lance Anderson and Mark Budos subsequently left The Walt Disney Internet Group and together began development of Newsvine during the summer of 2005, as the four co-founders of the company. Josh Yockey joined the company shortly after development began, with Tom Laramee following in the spring of 2006. Eric Glomstad joined as an intern over the summer of 2006 and has stayed on with the company since. The development team consists of several veterans from the Disney Internet Group and ESPN. Mike Davidson, CEO of Newsvine Inc. was interviewed in episode 8 of Leo Laporte and Amber MacArthur's weekly Inside the Net podcast.
On October 7, 2007, Newsvine announced its acquisition by the news website MSNBC.com on October 5, 2007, after talks beginning in May.