Screensaver company Chirp bought by thePlatform
Chirp, a site that lets you display information from web sites within a computer screensaver, has been bought by broadband video company thePlatform. San Francisco-based Chirp’s assets and some employees will join thePlatform but stay local, as thePlatform is expanding its presence in Silicon Valley.
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Eric currently covers digital media technology and business news, especially what's happening on social networks and their platforms. He also writes and edits stories about venture capital, and lots of other stuff, too. He started at VentureBeat in the spring of 2007, half a year or so after Matt Marshall left his reporting job at the San Jose Mercury News to found the site. Eric previously cofounded a startup called Writewith, that was building editorial software for newspapers and other groups of writers. The startup didn't work out, but he learned a lot.