The Fanpop Blog

Wow. That’s all I can say. Not even live for a full week, and I get contacted by Marshall Kirkpatrick of TechCrunch. It’s almost surreal nowadays seeing our name show up in my Google Reader feeds and reading about us on places I check every day for the latest and greatest in the wacky web world. First it was MOMB, then Mashable, then eHub by Emily Chang, and now TechCrunch. Needless to say, I was nervous, but Marshall was totally a nice guy (who says the press are all sharks!). It’s been a crazy past two days since we were contacted by him through our site.

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Fanpop hasn’t quite been online for a week yet but already we’ve been privileged to have received some encouraging feedback from several blogs. Since we don’t yet have a media relations page, I thought I’d highlight some of the coverage here.

Mashable’s Pete Cashmore reviewed the site on Monday and had this to say:

“For some reason, I really like Fanpop. I think it’s the instant accessibility for the average user – everyone’s a fan of something, and it’s a really simple way of expressing your personality by associating yourself with brands. What’s more, the design and usability are impressive…”

“…I think Fanpop is pretty neat. I see this as another StumbleUpon – simple, fun, and easy to explain to the average Internet user.”

On the whole, Pete really seemed to “get” the site. Read the full review here.

Chris Durr of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer did a nice write-up today on the PI’s new social networking blog. He writes about Fanpop in the context of MySpace stating, “Fanpop doesn’t have that stale taste of a wannabe MySpace site.” And notes that “what’s unique about Fanpop is that it offers content as well as functioning as a fan site.” (read the rest of the article here).

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