We are pleased to inform you that 901am is a partner blog of Mashable’s Open Web Awards. As a partner, 901am will accept nominations for the different categories. Here’s a rundown of the categories that we’re covering:

[Update: Open Web Awards is now open for voting. Simply click on the link]

• Mainstream and Large Scale Networks
• Applications and Widgets
• Social News and Social Bookmarking
• Social Search
• Sports and Fitness Site
• Photo Sharing
• Video Sharing
• Events Site
• Music Site
• Social Shopping Site
• Mobile
• Niche and Social Networks

To nominate, simply leave a comment on this post, with your nomination and its category. We will update you more about the Open Web Awards in the coming days. In the meantime, post your nominees in the comment section.

Originally posted on November 27, 2007 @ 4:08 pm

Time and again, we receive emails asking if we can put up a link back to their sites in exchange for a fee.

Some bloggers would refer to them as link whores. A link whore is one who solicits links to his blog regularly or seems/is desperate to receive links to his blog.

A link whore does not only entail paying for the link. Here are other symptoms that you are a link whore according to a prominent link building expert:

• Do you have social bookmark accounts just to post client’s URLs?

• Have you ever commented on a blog post just because you wanted to leave a URL behind with it?

• Have you bought one-way links from sites that have nothing to do with your site but do have a high pagerank?

• Have you used trackbacks just for the link?

• Do you have a reciprocal links page that you only created so the engines might give you credit for it?

• Have you gone back to existing links and changed the anchor text just to look nice for the bots?

• Do you send out press releases every week about absolutely nothing just so you can fill them with so many deep links they look like site maps?

Managing 901am entails putting up compelling content every day and making sure that we continue to attract sponsors. Accepting fees in exchange for a link is not an option yet, and may never be. If you have a compelling site, we will find you. Otherwise, no matter what sleazy link-whoring tactics you undertake, we have to pass on you.

Originally posted on November 8, 2007 @ 11:11 am

This is Splaspress Media, the mother company of 901am. Founded in 2006, with over 100 blog-related sites and 200 people working in its network, Splashpress Media has quickly evolved into a significant new media company focusing primarily on ways to help the modern blogger succeed- whether that be through news, tutorials, analysis, metrics, designs, tools, products or services.

But how much is it really worth? If you are asked to put a value on the company, how much do you think is it really worth? Why not try presenting your best “model for worth evaluation” for Splashpress Media. In return, they are willing to give the best model $1,000. This post can explain it better.

Originally posted on November 6, 2007 @ 9:01 am

Last Saturday, we received our last print issue of Business 2.0. So long, Business 2.0.

Originally posted on September 30, 2007 @ 10:19 pm

Splashpress Media, the parent company of 901am.com, today announced its acquisition of Blog Search Engine from Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal.

Blog Search Engine will undergo site overhauling and is expected to compliment EatonWeb, another Splashpress Media property.

Originally posted on August 31, 2007 @ 1:37 pm