I'm very pleased to announce that Neil Budde, former VP and editor-in-chief of Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Sports, has joined DailyMe as our new President, Chief Product Officer.

This is important for a number of reasons:

• As DailyMe continues to evolve, we are very focused on providing you, our users, with the news you want the way you want it. Neil brought Yahoo! News to No. 1 in the online news space and before that developed the concept for The Wall Street Journal Online and then built and ran that pioneering news site. He is the perfect person to guide our continued product development efforts.

• As a visionary in the online news space, Neil's decision to move across country to Florida and join our team underscores my belief that the news aggregation space is one of the most exciting out there. We know from your feedback just what you are looking for in news, and we are more convinced than ever that our direction is the way to the future.

• Lastly, as you'll see personally over the coming weeks and months, Neil is a terrific guy with a great eye for news and innovation. I'm sure you'll soon begin to feel his presence in the DailyMe community.

If you'd like to find out more about Neil, please take a look at his bio http://www.neilbudde.com.

We've got a lot of exciting plans for DailyMe and I'll bring them to you as soon as I can. For today, please join me in welcoming Neil to our DailyMe community.

- Eduardo

Today Jose, our beloved IT guru, treated the DM office to lunch with his new found savings from switching his insurance policies to Geico. He consolidated all of his insurance policies including his car, boat, motorcycle, desktop monitor and precious macbook air under one policy. This will save him hundreds of dollars.

Long story short, a good time was had by all and we are looking forward to his picking up the tab at Michy’s for our upcoming celebration dinner as well.

APRIL FOOLS DAY JOSE!!! (This is what you get for putting me as admin for the blog and testing the new features!)

- Lisa

On the heels of a fascinating We Media conference, DailyMe is taking to the road to attend the upcoming Journalism That Matters - Silicon Valley: NewsTools2008 event in Sunnyvale, Calif. (April 30-May 3)

I'll be speaking at the conference on Thursday, May 1st. This event is particularly interesting to us, as it is one of the few dedicated exclusively to online news and the tools being developed to support it. A great mix of entrepreneurs, technologists and journalists are planning to attend.

For those who can't be there, I'm intending to post about the event. So please stay in touch. If you'd like to find out more about the conference, here's the link . DailyMe will be a sponsor of this event

- Eduardo

Once again, the 2-day We Media Conference proved to be inspirational and enlightening.

We Media happens to be one of my favorite conferences, mostly because I share lecture halls with a passionate journalism & media crowd who engage in debate and discussion on panels, in the audience, and even the hallways outside the sessions.

I am always intrigued by the caliber of the participants at the conference. Participants range from editors-in-chief and publishers of major newspapers to representatives of non-profit organizations who undertake interesting projects like providing platforms, publishing opportunities and education to journalists in less developed countries.

My takeaway from the conference? That the driver in the future of news media consumption continues to shift away from traditional publishers and into the hands of end users End users are choosing the news they consume, including from where they obtain it (sources) and when.

A few key factors that have made this possible are the social media movement, the growing demand for personalization, and advances in technology. It’s hard to say which of these forces have led the way, but it is clear that the media landscape is a very different game than we experienced even a year ago.

So I walked away from We Media with continued confidence in DailyMe’s vision of where news media is headed and feel inspired about the changes in the news media space.

2008 will be a big year for DailyMe in terms of new features, a new user interface and more sources.

As always we welcome your feedback.

-Lisa

Understanding what our users want and expect from their media is critical to DailyMe's success. For that reason we'll be attending this year's We Media conference www.ifocos.org/we-media-miami-2008/activities/ , which brings together leaders from both the new and traditional media worlds.

DailyMe will be present as both a sponsor and participant. We attended We Media last year and were very impressed with both the quality of the event and the people attending. That, of course, was prior to our Beta launch. We've come a long way since.

Lisa Lamb, our VP of Sales & Marketing and a key member of the DailyMe team, will be attending We Media. If you're at the event and want to chat about DailyMe, please look for Lisa and say hello.