About ConceivablyTech

Conceivably, there are millions of websites you can visit to satisfy your hunger for technology news and trends. ConceivablyTech is not designed to be a typical technology news site. We do not believe in the concept that we need to pitch a story that 100 other perfectly good writers may have covered already from virtually every angle.

At ConceivablyTech we focus on those technologies we believe will change your life. Our coverage is highly opinionated to provide our readers with reasonable guidance in an increasingly complex technology world. You may agree or disagree with our take on technologies, but we enjoy putting our experience to work:  Our writers carry a wealth of knowledge – more than 100 years of combined technology analysis expertise. Our writers were among the first to predict the rise of many technologies that are common in our lives today, such as tablets, Blu-ray, smartphones or the memory technology in our computers today. ConceivablyTech is especially known for our web browser market analysis, pre-release feature evaluations and trend advice. We apply our experience, and we research and analyze technologies every day to give you the information you need when you have to make reasonable purchase decisions and technology deployments.

We pay special attention to consumer cloud computing (especially the enabling web browsers), applications and services, mobile devices, and consumer electronics.

Originally launched as a 20% project, ConceivablyTech has already reached many more people than we anticipated. Within 100 days of launch in April 2010, more than 300,000 people had visited our site, opened more than 500,000 pages and made CT*, as we like to call it, one of the web’s 100,000 largest websites. In early 2011, or 8 months after launch, we were listed as a member of the world’s top 45,000 websites by alexa.com and among the top 15,000 websites in North America by Quantcast. Wolfgang Gruener, who keeps a close eye on the content we publish, and I always have felt that journalism – a word we take seriously from every angle – is about transporting critical information and improving lives as a result.

We often hear that anyone can be a journalist today, which we do not quite agree with. While we love that anyone can publish virtually anything today, it is only journalism that also teaches a significant responsibility that grows with exposure. We do not publish articles with content that is based on sources we do not trust. We do not publish opinion that we consider unbalanced, unreasonable, and deceptive. We have been frequently asked about our background: Wolfgang has been a tech journalist and analyst since 1994, co-founded Europe’s largest computing web-site, was managing editor at Tom’s Hardware and founded TG Daily. I have a medical background and have come to technology, as so many others as well, through personal interest and pure passion for products and services that impact our life.

CT* has given us the room to live this passion, to talk about what we love next to our family life and regular jobs that pay our bills. To this day, ConceivablyTech remains a project that is maintained in our spare time and we are happy if our advertising revenue covers our running cost. We intend to keep the strong opinion character of ConceivablyTech alive and have no immediate plans of competing with 1 million and 1 other blogs for advertising dollars, which means that we will keep a lid on the advertising we throw into your face. If you notice advertising, including those green links, and you feel annoyed, keep in mind that these are the tools we have to use to be able to pay for the infrastructure of this site.

CT* has been quoted in an amazing array of publications, including Forbes, Fortune, CNN, CNN Money, MSNBC, Cnet, The Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal, All Things Digital, The New York Times, Fast Company, The Seattle Post Intelligencer, Financial Times, Houston Chronicle, Business Insider, The Independent, PC Magazine, PC World, Eweek, CRN, InfoWorld, Venture Beat, The Motley Fool, Tom’s Hardware, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb, RCR Wireless News, Examiner, Engadget, Gizmodo, Technologizer, The Register and almost 200,000 other blogs around the web. We are now seeing more and more traction on news aggregation sites that feature our articles regularly, such as Google News, Digg, Reddit, Blues News, Slashdot, Y Combinator, as well as Techmeme. President Barack Obama referred to a ConceivablyTech test result in his Energy Speech in late March 2011. This doesn’t happen every day and there are very few publications that are ever quoted by the U.S. President. We are quite proud of that.

As of Q1 2011, ConceivablyTech has grown to more than 300,000 monthly readers, who request more than 530,000 pages every month. Nearly 6000 comments were posted by our readers in our first 12 months and we now record more than 2000 comments posted in a monthly period. We are truly excited that our readers are more and more engaging in a discussion of consumer cloud computing. In case you like statistics as much as we do, our readership tends to be in the 18-34 year range (40%; the age range 18-49 represents 66% of our readership) with a college or graduate degree (66%). 61% of our readers earn at least $60,000 per year, while 42% earn more than $100,000. From what we can gather, our readership is well-educated and on the very forefront that is reshaping the way we are using technology every day.

We will continue on this path and hope that you will come back frequently to check out our coverage. And, just in case you wonder: Of course we are interested in sponsorships and advertising as it enables us to keep this blog going and perhaps extend it over time.

Lisa Nickeas Hernandez, Founder

 

Contributors

Frequent contributors to ConceivablyTech include Rob Enderle, principal analyst of Enderle Group;  Jon Peddie, principal analyst of Jon Peddie Research, Jack Gold, principal analyst of JGold & Associates; Wanda Meloni, principal analyst of M2 Research.

Kurt Bakke is our expert for game consoles and consumer electronics.
Daniel Bailey has a secret love affair with all web browsers .
Michael Rabinovsky is our in-house expert for everything Firefox.
Ethan McKinney focuses on mobile devices.

You can contact us through the contact form below.

We are always looking for talented writers to join us. If your passion is in consumer cloud computing, feel free to send us a note via the submission form below.

 

Feedback & Submissions

Do you have a story tip for us? Send us your tips or press releases. You can also use this form to simply contact us with general feedback. We do get quite a bit of mail and we try to answer as many as we can.

Advertising and Sponsorship

Yes, we welcome advertisers and sponsors. Contact us to find out more.

Here is our advertising and sponsorship policy and how it relates to our editorial work.

1. Companies that advertise on these pages or provide sponsorship do not receive special treatment or articles in any kind of form in return.
2. We frequently receive products for review or first look purposes. When we are done testing, we send those products back, if they are of significant material value. Software, which is delivered usually via download or inexpensive DVDs, is not sent back. In some cases, review products and/or new products may be given away in prize drawings.
3. ConceivablyTech and its contributors pay full price for all products that they use to create content for this site. We pay full price to host the basic technology supporting this site, including services provided to program it, to protect it from malware and spam attacks. Contributors do not own stock in the companies they cover.
4. We do not accept sponsored links in articles (text link purchases outside of the links provided by our partner Vibrantmedia, which can be identified by their green color) as a form of advertising.
5. We honor embargo time frames up to 4 weeks if they are agreed on verbally. We do not sign NDAs or embargo agreements, as it is a mess to keep track of them and we know all too well that embargos never work out as they are planned.
6. We frequently participate in press and analyst briefings as it relates to to the content we cover. We do not guarantee coverage as part of the invitation.
7. Occasionally we travel to press briefings and we usually accept sponsorship that will cover related expenses such as air travel and hotel cost as a compromise for keeping certain advertising features off our site. We do require, however, a written agreement that states that we will not guarantee any type of coverage as a result of a briefing that requires paid travel.
8. We encourage article submissions from our readers. Keep in mind that the content is subject to our review and has to meet our quality requirements. Submitted articles cannot advertise a product and have to be considered useful and informative for our readers. Industry affiliations will always be disclosed in the footer of an article. We do not consider submitted articles a form of sponsorship, we do not allow sponsored links in submitted articles and do not accept payment for submitted articles.