Gamer video site Machinima raises $3.85 million
Machinima, a company that lets video game players post videos of their exploits in games, has raised a first round of funding from MK Capital and other investors. More details on NewTeeVee.
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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.