Backfence Acquires Bayosphere

Posted on April 19, 2006

Backfence has acquired Bayosphere in a merger of two citizen journalism websites. Bayosphere is a local community website for Bay area residents in California. Bayosphere will become one of Backfence's destinations. It has about 100,000 unique visitors per month according to SiliconValley.com. Backfence already has sites for Bethesda in Maryland and Arlington, McLean and Reston in Virginia.

SiliconValley.com reports that Backfence will expand its presence in California. It says, "Backfence, a Washington D.C.-area start-up building a network of local community Web sites, said it plans a Web site for Palo Alto over the next two months, with other Bay Area towns to follow."

It will probably be easier for local sites like Bayosphere to survive as part of a larger network than to battle for advertising and traffic as independent solitary sites.