Pete Cashmore went on Old Media raw data buffet Bloomberg West today, and amongst other things, let slip that Mashable fired Federated media. He followed up with a rare post on Mashable proper: How are we fueling this growth? Among other big moves this year, Mashable took over its own ad sales at the start of 2011 – ads had previously been handled by our ad partner. This more than doubled our ad revenue, allowing us to grow the team, expand...

Today, Mashable’s hard earned sales dollars were finally put to good use, when the newly hired community manager Vadim Lavrusik, in his first official act, posted a commenting policy for the site. The post was put up three hours today, and judging from the number of shares and the number of times it’s crossed into my field of vision, it’s by far their most popular piece of content today. What sort of guidelines has the man with the...

So I was tooling around the internet tonight, and somehow ended up over at Mashable. As you know, if you hang out on Mashable at all, that it’s pretty well populated with ads. Still, one (presumably) new ad sort of stood out to me. According to this widget/ad on the site, worldwide, there exist over 1,463 Mashable Meetups with nearly 15,000 registered attendees. With that many meetups (and the recent surge in popularity for Mashable) that it...

Hey. Just wanted to quickly alert everyone that I’m putting out the next list post in the series on Austin tomorrow afternoon, which means I’m adding all the suggestions to the OPML file today. This post is going to focus on Austin area social media and Web 2.0 companies with RSS feeds! If you have something you feel like should be on the list and they aren’t already listed in the OPML file presently, leave them in the...

Sean and I had a great discussion about online video, and what really grinds our gears over it, on yesterday’s Mashable Conversations. Check it out. Discuss.