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Black Friday 2011: Frank Schilling’s NAMedia versus Kevin Ham’s Reinvent

Black Friday Sales

The competition for Black Friday is heating up between Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling, and there’s still more than 200 days left before the day that will kick off the 2011 Holiday shopping season.

Yesterday, Frank Schilling’s NAMedia launched Black Friday Sales – blackfridaysales.com – a domain name that Frank Schilling’s company acquired from RegistrarAds, Inc.  The name changed hands a week before Black Friday 2010 on November 19th.  The sale was brokered by Sedo.com for $90,000 USD.   

A message posted on the Black Friday Sales’s Facebook page reads: “BlackFridaySales.com is now live and with 7 months to go until Black Friday 2011 get ready for lots of tips, tricks and deals along the way.”

I’ve written for years about Kevin Ham’s blackfriday.com, from the initial launch to its present day state.  Now with Frank Schilling’s blackfridaysales.com added to the mix, it will be exciting to see how 2011 turns out for the different Black Friday websites.

Blackfridaysales.com, despite being parked this past holiday season, still managed to receive over 30,000 unique visitors in Nov. 2010 according to a rough estimate provided by Compete.

As shopping stores get more crowded each year at Black Friday, it looks like the competition online is also seeing bigger crowds.

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Reinvent Inc. issues press release on purchase of ThreeWords.me, the web app built by 18-year old Mark Bao

ThreeWords.me

Reinvent Inc. issued a press release on Wednesday, officially announcing the purchase of ThreeWords.me

“We are always looking for great ideas to nurture and develop,” said Dr. Kevin Ham, CEO, Reinvent. “ThreeWords.me is a simple application that has the potential to transform the way people express and track sentiment online. We are starting to make gradual improvements to the site with a full relaunch to feature an updated platform that will retain simplicity but boast deeper functionality.”

Though the official press release went out this week, news of the purchase by Reinvent had already been reported by Mashable on January 19th, shortly after Mark Bao, the 18-year-old technology entrepreneur, had put the website up for sale.

Check out the full press release below.

Vancouver, Canada, February 2, 2011 — Reinvent Inc., an emerging business incubator for innovative online start-ups, today announced the acquisition of popular web application, ThreeWords.me (http://threewords.me/). The application launched on December 22, 2010 and has since experienced rapid growth, approaching 5 million visitors and 17 million page views in just over a month.

“We are always looking for great ideas to nurture and develop,” said Dr. Kevin Ham, CEO, Reinvent. “ThreeWords.me is a simple application that has the potential to transform the way people express and track sentiment online. We are starting to make gradual improvements to the site with a full relaunch to feature an updated platform that will retain simplicity but boast deeper functionality.”

ThreeWords.me has been a labor of love and I’m excited to hand it over to the team at Reinvent,” said Mark Bao, 18 year-old creator of ThreeWords.me. “The company has an incredible vision matched by technical expertise. I believe that they will be able to take what I started and create a revolutionary new way for people to express their opinions online.”

Reinvent is an expanding incubation house for strategic, creative and passionate entrepreneurial businesses. The company’s portfolio currently includes socially conscious daily deal site, GoodNews.com and Black Friday resource site, BlackFriday.com. In addition to the incubator projects, Reinvent is also a pioneer of domain names and advertising networks with a massive online global network that currently receives 30 million unique visitors a month. Reinvent’s founder, Kevin Ham has garnered international attention and accolades for building one of the largest domain companies in the world. In 2008, Dr. Ham was the recipient of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in Technology for the Pacific Region.

About Reinvent Inc.
Headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, Reinvent Inc., is a global Internet company founded more than ten years ago that specializes in business incubation, direct navigation, online advertising, syndication and domain ownership. The company also recently received the AlwaysOn Global Top 250 Private Companies in 2010 distinction. For more information about Reinvent Inc., visit http://www.reinvent.com/. For more information about GoodNews.com visit http://goodnews.com. For more information on BlackFriday.com visit http://blackfriday.com.