- BeNews
Infobox Website
name = BeNews
favicon =
caption = The place with more Be news
url = http://benews.com
commercial =
type = News
registration = Optional
owner =
author =Adrian Ziemkowski ,Jamie Wilkinson ,Shafer Stockton
launch date = October 1998
current status = defunct
revenue = AdvertisementBeNews, "the place with more Be News," was the leading
BeOS news website from 1998 to 2000. The site was founded inCottonwood, Arizona byAdrian Ziemkowski ,Jamie Wilkinson , andShafer Stockton in October 1998. At its peak the site claimed more than 100,000 daily visitors.Fact|date=June 2007After
Be Inc. changed its primary development focus from theBeOS desktop operating system to theBeIA operating system forinternet appliances , BeNews articles began appearing less frequently until BeNews finally ceased operating in late 2002. [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20020921145120/http://benews.com/ Letter from CEO Oliver Thylmann] ]BeNews featured a continual stream of updates on BeOS community news, reviews, and interviews, software updates provided by
BeBits , and a periodically published e-magazine, BeNews Extra. An advertising agency called the BeNews Network was planned but never moved past the development stages. The administration backend of the site was originally developed inHeiTML but later ported to early versions ofPHP .Editing staff included
Scot Hacker ,Oliver Thylmann ,Eugenia Loli-Queru , and more.External links
* [http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/benews.com/ benews.com on web.archive.org]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/*hh_/www.benews.org/ benews.org (BeNews Stylus) on web.archive.org] -- administration backend
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
