Polygon

During the night here in the UK, Polygon launched. Polygon is the SB Nation/Vox Media video game website which was incubated in The Verge for a while and is now out on its own at www.polygon.com.

The Polygon.com front page at launch

I had registered on the Polygon landing page earlier in the year and received an email during the night to let me know that Polygon had launched. I found the email very amusing and have decided to share it with you. So here's the text from the email:

A long time ago, on a landing page far, far away, you ignored everything your parents ever taught you and entered your email address into a form on the internet. While normally we would join your parents in frowning on this kind of behavior, this one time it seems to have worked out! You asked to be notified when Polygon.com — the new video game website from Vox Media — was live and well, friend ... today's that day.
So fire up your favorite web browser, be it desktop, tablet, or mobile-based, and load up:
http://www.polygon.com-Team Polygon

So there you have it! They have launched and already have lots of great gaming related content on the site.

I also found Nilay Patel's article announcing the Polygon launch very amusing. You can check it out at The Verge here: Polygon is here!

Well done to everyone involved in the launch, lets hope this isn't a symptom of The Verge Fragmentation...

The Verge Is Here!

I follow technology and consumer electronics news and views a lot. The internet is a great tool to do this, and as in real life the sources are important.

News collection, communication and redaction are of paramount importance in an industry as open, manipulated and secretive as it is. For many years Engadget used to be the first site I went to, and I even started listening to the Engadget podcast. Earlier this year Engadget went downhill. The Engadget protagonists Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel and Paul Miller and their "Special Guests" (among them Joanna Stern) left AOL (parent company of Engadget) and went off to start their new venture with SB Nation, as I blogged in this post.

The Engadget Fragmentation (it's a podcast meme applied to the team) lead to SB Nation and a site called ThisIsMyNext.com was started as an interim home for the crew and their new content and excellent new podcast. Later this summer a name was announced for the new venture: "The Verge".

The Verge is now live and it is an impressive new site. Much thought, effort and work has gone into the creation of The Verge, which is definitely something new. As well as a consumer electronics news site it is also a community hub (you can register and join in the forums), device database and covers more than just consumer electronics. The design is clean and magazine like, definitely easy to spend time reading and skimming.

Well done to everyone involved in the launch of The Verge, my new first click website for news and views on consumer electronics!

As usual, feel free to leave comments and/or questions below.

Engadget Fragmentation Leads To SB Nation

During my usual news reading this morning I woke up to tweets and posts from Joanna Stern, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller and Joshua Topolsky speaking about their future.

From what I understand, the future of the motley crew is bright, much brighter than it would have been on the Engadget ship flying the Huffington Post Tech flag...


As Kara Swisher reports, Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller, Joanna Stern, Ross Miller, Chris Ziegler, Justin Glow and Dan Chilton will be joining a yet unnamed tech project at SB Nation (SportsBlog Nation).


I have been following Engadget for years and enjoyed these writers and reviewers' posts, as well as the brilliant Engadget podcast with Topolsky, Patel and Miller + guests. It was sad to see them leave Huffington Post Tech.


So, to take a meme from the Engadget Podcast, all this Engadget Fragmentation has lead to SB Nation.


I look forward to reading and listening (maybe even watching) content created, interpreted and relayed by the crew formerly at Engadget. I especially look forward to listening to the Podcast trio formed by Joshua, Nilay and Paul +guests.


All the best to all involved in the new venture!


Feel free to post comments/questions.