I'm just back from a 3 week holiday - but things haven't been standing still around here. You'll notice we have a few new billboards up promoting projects:


VaroCMS is Lucky's brainchild - the structure behind VideoSift that keeps everything running smoothly. The past year has been a great proving ground for the software - and now we'd like to apply the same model to other ideas - games, music, pictures whatever. We'll be using VaroCMS to launch ideas of our own - as offshoots of the VideoSift - and hopefully to partner with other companies and groups that would like to use VaroCMS for their ideas. We not-so-humbly believe that VaroCMS is the smartest software out there for building a community.


ScrapeUp.com is a project that's an order of magnitude smaller than VaroCMS - but has been fun for me personally over the past couple of months. The idea came from always going to the usual suspect sites and navigating through different UIs to try and find the new stuff. ScrapeUp pulls all my favs into a single interface and makes it easy to post to VideoSift. I hope it will serve as a useful little tool for Sifters.

Lastly, in addition to VideoSift as a community - we are also a company. Sift Partners was founded around 1 year ago because we needed to manage the business side of VideoSift - (taxes yech) it's also nice to have a place to point people to get a quick rundown on what we're all about. To that end, we've launched a small company site, SiftPartners.com that compresses maximum information about what we're doing into one HTML page.