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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Welcome! Have A Look Around…

Pardon our dust as we continue to put the finishing touches on the new ProSoundWeb. I’ve been calling this “version 3.0” but as some of our logos through the years show (below), maybe I’m a bit low on the version count.

But over the years, this site has evolved in a significant way three different times. There were the startup/formation years, followed by a transition as the site moved to a much more open, flexible format, and now, what you see here.

Here’s how I describe some of this in the upcoming (January 2009)  issue of Live Sound magazine:

...“time flies” is just too apt as I review the history of ProSoundWeb and read this archived headline: “JBL Professional Speakers Cover the Capital for the Bush Presidential Inauguration.”

That’s from early 2001, and by then, ProSoundWeb had already been seeking to fulfill it’s mission statement as The Premiere Online Pro Audio Community for more than a year.

Shortly after divesting of EAW, his previous venture, Ken Berger started anew in 1999, partnering with Dave Stevens, founder of the Live Audio Board (LAB), to launch ProSoundWeb.

I joined up shortly thereafter, as did some very talented, dedicated people, and off we went in pursuit of building a location to serve the online needs of audio professionals.

Fast-forward to present, and the world wide web has grown in ways we couldn’t conceive of back in the days of sizing photos to minuscule pixel counts to try to lessen page download times to a few seconds.

Now the buzz is “Web 2.0”. Now the buzz is “Someone’s Speakers Cover The Capital for the Obama Presidential Inauguration.”

And now the buzz is the new ProSoundWeb…

Have a look around. There’s lots to see. And more coming soon.

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