Announcing DailyTech as our News Partner
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 3, 2006 11:34 PM EST- Posted in
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AnandTech is going on its 9th year of operation and one goal I can remember from the very early days was to be able to do for technology news what we were doing for reviews. It was always so very difficult of a goal to accomplish, because whenever we would find a good news editor, we could always use that editor writing articles rather than news. As time went on, our article coverage depth and breadth increased, but we were never able to really attain our goal of being where I wanted things to be for news.
Over the past year, Kristopher Kubicki has done an excellent job of working on the short Insider Stories pieces here on AnandTech. Those are the quick 1 - 2 pagers that usually give you all of the latest roadmap, product naming and other interesting tidbits that come from his extensive network of contacts and sources. In fact, what Kris had done with his Insider Stories was effectively taken the first step towards achieving what we had sought to do for so long here at AnandTech - produce good quality news as well as reviews of products and technology. So it is with pleasure that I announce that Kristopher, along with two other former AnandTechers have moved on to run a new site, completely dedicated to technology news, called DailyTech.
You can head over to DailyTech to get the full story on what the site is all about, and you can expect much more content over the coming days, but basically their goal is to be for news, what AnandTech has been for reviews. With that goal in mind, and with the right people at the helm, I think it can happen.
Given DailyTech's focus and given that their founding staff is entirely made up of ex-AnandTech folks, it made sense that a partnership would be in order. So from this day forward, all news on AnandTech will be provided by DailyTech, our news partner. AnandTech will continue to be focused on reviews, the only thing that's changing is that the rightmost columns will now be populated by DailyTech.
The AT/DT partnership also allows all registered AT users to post using their current user name and password over at DailyTech (the same also applies in reverse). We thought it would make things more convenient, instead of requiring users to have two separate logins.
From an organizational standpoint, DailyTech is a completely independent entity from AnandTech. It's got separate editorial staff and a separate management team. There is also no sharing of editorial between DT and AT, since they are completely independent of one another, so you'll see DT report on things that we can't here at AT because we're bound by NDAs. At the same time, we may scoop the DT folks every now and then ;)
The common ground between DT and AT are our policies of integrity and putting the reader first. So you will once again see that with DT, much like AT, there isn't a single sales person on the team - the company is entirely editorial staff. All advertising sales are handled by a third party to further maintain a strict policy of separation between advertising and editorial.
Although I'm making this announcement here on the blog, if you've got any questions or comments about DailyTech and its content you'll have to head over there and ask Kris and the rest of the team.
I'd like to ask you all to give Kris, Brandon and Tuan a fond farewell from AnandTech and wish them the best of luck with DailyTech.
I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow to head to CES and of course, both AT and DT will be there covering the show.
Enjoy the rest of the week folks.
Over the past year, Kristopher Kubicki has done an excellent job of working on the short Insider Stories pieces here on AnandTech. Those are the quick 1 - 2 pagers that usually give you all of the latest roadmap, product naming and other interesting tidbits that come from his extensive network of contacts and sources. In fact, what Kris had done with his Insider Stories was effectively taken the first step towards achieving what we had sought to do for so long here at AnandTech - produce good quality news as well as reviews of products and technology. So it is with pleasure that I announce that Kristopher, along with two other former AnandTechers have moved on to run a new site, completely dedicated to technology news, called DailyTech.
You can head over to DailyTech to get the full story on what the site is all about, and you can expect much more content over the coming days, but basically their goal is to be for news, what AnandTech has been for reviews. With that goal in mind, and with the right people at the helm, I think it can happen.
Given DailyTech's focus and given that their founding staff is entirely made up of ex-AnandTech folks, it made sense that a partnership would be in order. So from this day forward, all news on AnandTech will be provided by DailyTech, our news partner. AnandTech will continue to be focused on reviews, the only thing that's changing is that the rightmost columns will now be populated by DailyTech.
The AT/DT partnership also allows all registered AT users to post using their current user name and password over at DailyTech (the same also applies in reverse). We thought it would make things more convenient, instead of requiring users to have two separate logins.
From an organizational standpoint, DailyTech is a completely independent entity from AnandTech. It's got separate editorial staff and a separate management team. There is also no sharing of editorial between DT and AT, since they are completely independent of one another, so you'll see DT report on things that we can't here at AT because we're bound by NDAs. At the same time, we may scoop the DT folks every now and then ;)
The common ground between DT and AT are our policies of integrity and putting the reader first. So you will once again see that with DT, much like AT, there isn't a single sales person on the team - the company is entirely editorial staff. All advertising sales are handled by a third party to further maintain a strict policy of separation between advertising and editorial.
Although I'm making this announcement here on the blog, if you've got any questions or comments about DailyTech and its content you'll have to head over there and ask Kris and the rest of the team.
I'd like to ask you all to give Kris, Brandon and Tuan a fond farewell from AnandTech and wish them the best of luck with DailyTech.
I'm hopping on a plane tomorrow to head to CES and of course, both AT and DT will be there covering the show.
Enjoy the rest of the week folks.
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NoToRiOuS1 - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
its your account on a FORUM. its not like they gave out your online banking password or anything of that sort. im sure plenty of people are going to cry about this. but the simple fact is, with any sort of a change, there will always be people that will moan and groan.what they have done i see as the best solution. instead of having people to reregister...and who knows if someone else takes your current name from AT and pretends to post as you at DT. along with these, im sure there are many other reasons why they have decided to do what they did.
i doubt kris or anyone else running the website can just go ahead and look at your passwords. i have more faith in AT and anand then that. and until you're sure otherwise...maybe you should too.
ninjit - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
I was wondering why the news looked so different when I checked the site this morning.I hopped over to Dailytech, to read up more about the new company, and I noticed that there is no mention of their Anandtech root's anywhere on the website (not in the about section, where I would expect it).
Is there a specific reason for that?
setec astronomy - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
... the privacy policy for Anandtech doesn't include the password file. Stellar thinking there, fellas.ninjit - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
Ok, Mr. Conspiracy nut. You obviously have no clue as to what happens with these things.Notice how your msn/hotmail/whatever password works on so many sites because of "passport"?
Doesn't mean microsoft is selling/sharing your information to others to let them identify you, in fact it's completely the opposite.
By giving a site YOUR user name and YOUR password, YOU are providing them with the information, they then just verify/authenticate it with the proper servers (passport in microsoft example).
I doubt dailytech will have access to the anandtech password files, there's no need for them to. When someone logs in to their website, they first check there own files to see if the user is registered with them, if not then they ask the anandtech server if he/she is one of there's.
Similarly when someone registers they will check their own registry for duplication and then ask the anandtech site as well.
If you start getting spam from Dailytech, then yes you will have something to bitch about.
But hopefully somebody on the Anandtech team will chime in to appease your fears, so that you don't have to take my word for it.
Questar - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
Major difference - Passport tells you other sites will have access to/use this information. No where did Anandtech ever say other people/websites would have any kind of access to this information.That's one really huge screw up.
ninjit - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
Actually your wrong.Hotmail started long before passport (as a non-MS company too), and was then automatically integrated into .net passport when that was rolled out.
For people who originally signed up with hotmail, there was no mention of information being shared sold to 3rd parties.
But what you can't seem to comprehend is that this doesn't involve divulging personal information between the websites.
If you login to dailytech with your AT name and pword, YOU are the one who is providing the information to them. They then go to AT and say "hey is the guy one of yours like he says he is"?. The authentication is done on the AT side, and all they say is yes/no.
Anand himself chimed in above, confirming what I said before.
I'm not sure if I/anyone can explain this better, so that you don't freak out for no reason at all. If i come across a decent wikipedia article that explains this I'll post it.
Anand Lal Shimpi - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
DailyTech does not have access to your password files, they are still stored on the AnandTech database. If you would like to login over there, the request is simply sent to the AnandTech db - not stored on any DT servers.Take care,
Anand
ksherman - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
just as long as yall dont segment your site as much as Toms has these days... I cant stand their sites anymore!noxipoo - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
what will become of brandon?Houdani - Wednesday, January 4, 2006 - link
*cough*