Pete Cashmore wrote his first post for Mashable.com five years ago in the bedroom of his home in Scotland. Hoping to get immersed in the social media and technology space, the 19-year-old web technology consultant started Mashable to cover web “mash-ups,” which were particularly popular at the time. Before he knew it, he sold his first advertisement for the site and gained a following of influential readers. In 2006, Mashable hired its first staff writer and in 2007 the site reached 4 million monthly pageviews.
Five years after its birth, Mashable has grown to be the most popular news site covering the social media space with 30 million monthly pageviews, a full-time staff of 30 and hundreds of guest writers. Today we celebrate the fifth of many more birthdays to come. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating by attending a local meetup.
We’d love to hear when and why you started reading Mashable in the comments or Twitter using #mashbday.
A Thank You to Our Readers From Pete Cashmore
Join Us in Celebrating by Attending a Mashable Meetup
It all started with Social Media Day, and now we’re continuing the social movement with the first Mashable Monthly Meetup.
Attend or organize your own meetups that enable your local social community to connect, learn and network. You can sign up to attend one of the 270+ meetups, or organize your own to help celebrate our birthday. The largest meetup so far is in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with more than 130 attending.
Logitech Giveaway: To show our thanks to our readers, we held a giveaway, rewarding five of our readers with Logitech Squeezebox Touches, a portable Wi-Fi music device. The winners are Priya Shah of New York, Mohammed Yassine Jaya of Morocco, Allison Nassour of California, Catalin Fertu of Romania and Kate Reuvers of Toronto. Congratulations to them all!
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