{"id":7070,"date":"2008-07-16T18:17:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T18:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/von_shows_over.html"},"modified":"2008-07-16T18:17:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T18:17:31","slug":"von-shows-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/von-shows-over.html","title":{"rendered":"VON Shows Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A Community Service Message<\/i><\/p>\n<p> I have been pretty silent about what has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=pulvermedia&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS282US282&amp;aq=t\">happened<\/a> with Pulvermedia and the <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/373725\/pulvermedia-falls-may-not-be-able-to-get-up\">VON events<\/a> because frankly, everyone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=pulvermedia&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS282US282&amp;aq=t\">else<\/a> seemed to be covering the fact that the events are no longer taking place. <\/p>\n<p> Also, TMC used to compete head to head with thee VON events so I thought it poor taste to discuss their demise. Having said that, I was at a recent event where I heard horror stories of people showing up for VON Amsterdam &#8212; only to find out there was no VON Amsterdam. Commenters in the <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/03\/28\/pulvermedia-shuts-down\/#comment-871506\">blogosphere<\/a> have echoed the same sentiments.<\/p>\n<p> So I wanted to make sure I went on record letting people in the communications industry know that Pulvermedia is shut down. If you want to check for yourself feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulvermedia.com\/web\/contactUs.php\">call or email them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Although I have debated writing this post I wanted to make sure I stopped companies from wasting their valuable resources by traveling to an event that isn&#8217;t happening. Please see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcom-insights.com\/blog\/marc\/2008\/07\/von-confusion-persists.shtm\">post<\/a> for important details and follow the comments <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/03\/28\/pulvermedia-shuts-down\/\">here<\/a> for play by play action.<\/p>\n<p> See Also:<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2008\/04\/24\/jeff-pulver-steps-down-from-pulvermedia-board\/\">Jeff Pulver Steps Down From PulverMedia Board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Community Service Message I have been pretty silent about what has happened with Pulvermedia and the VON events because frankly, everyone else seemed to be covering the fact that the events are no longer taking place. Also, TMC used to compete head to head with thee VON events so I thought it poor taste<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,168,178,170,171,179,180,181,201,202,172,1,160,163,212,199,218,1677,188,1676,198,1673,220,209,156,189,203,206,211,118,177,174,190,204,191,205,219,175,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}