About Noozler

Noozler.com was created by three celebrity gossip obsessed friends who were less than satisfied with the segmented world of gossip blogs. We were tired of having to constantly refresh four or five browser windows just to keep up on the latest news, and even less thrilled that by the time we got done catching up on one blog, much of the news on others would be stale.

With so much news being served independently by so many different sources, it was an obvious leap to pull it all together into one, comprehensive source. So that's what we did. Our Noozbot is constantly scouring the web, looking for juicy gossip and sending it back to our site.

Need to see the latest and greatest news from all of your favorite blogs in one place? That's what we do. Want quick links to everything that's been written about your favorite celebrity in a single spot? Not a problem. Dying to see who's the hottest personality on the web this month? Just take a look at our Noozometer, which continually tracks just how popular each and every star in our system is. Curious as to just how many ex-boyfriends Paris Hilton actually has? Our community monitored and maintained relationship system will tell you just that.

The benefits are obvious. We aim to be your first stop for all things gossip related, bringing you the very latest and best from across the blogosphere. Simultaneously, we actively support the community of highly motivated and talented authors by raising awareness about their writings and sending readers to their blogs. See? Everyone wins!


The Noozlers

Daniel Fettinger

Daniel attended Michigan State University, where he studied Kung Fu movies, Hockey and English. He dropped out in 1994 when he realized that people would actually pay him to build web pages. Bye-bye English degree, hello dotcom.

From there, he founded Control Room Technologies and spent several years at Sigma6 Interactive Media in Detroit leading development teams before packing up the truck and heading to San Francisco with Gabe in 1999. He then founded zeroDEF Design Associates and learned how to actually code (a claim questioned to this day by Gabe and Keith).

After the dotcom bubble burst and people were no longer willing to pay high priced mercenaries outlandish fees to build their brochureware, Dan landed a job at a tiny startup named StubHub. It was here that he met Keith and taught him the ways of the force. He was managing all application and front-end development teams when they were purchased by eBay. Dan quickly left to pursue laying around the house in his underwear.

Prior to Noozler, Daniel had written about pop-culture and its seedy underbelly for fun at SweatpantsErection.com. It was this experience (and a whole lot of laying around the house in his underwear) that led to the idea for Noozler. Daniel hopes this was a good idea, as he soon dragged Keith and Gabe both out of their kooshy day-jobs to join his fight against windmills.

When not working on Noozler, Daniel enjoys making his girlfriend QA the site, yelling at his dogs and watching hockey.

Gabriel Correa

Gabriel is the invisible woman, Wonder Woman in her invisible jet and Tina Yothers all wrapped up in one.

And he will remain such until he sends Dan his bio.

Keith Carter

Keith is the only Noozler co-founder with an actual real life college degree. He is also the only one who doesn't smoke, exercises more than three times a year, and wakes up before noon. Ah, but he's not even 30 so there is hope for him yet.

Keith graduated from Cornell University in 2002 with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and a Master's degree in the same in 2003. Following some world travels, Keith retreated to the comfort of his parent's house in Chicago to do web consulting for nearby firms, as well as to work on his pet project, the now defunct CavsZone.com.

As good as Mom's cooking was, Keith moved to San Francisco in early 2004 to take a job with a small startup called StubHub. Keith rose through the ranks as did the company's market share. In early 2007, when eBay bought StubHub, Keith was managing the user experience engineering team.

Uninterested in the large company phase of StubHub's growth, Keith left for a position as lead engineer at a small sports related startup. But that was just a stepping stone, as Keith's real hunger was for his own company. Fueled by this desire, and a little liquid courage gathered during a long lunch with Dan, the seed for Noozler was germinated.

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Contributors

Lisa Warner

As a Noozler contributor, Lisa is a part-time writer and full-time marketing manager for an environmental company. After earning a BA from the University of Michigan in 1999, she escaped to San Francisco to pursue her life-long dream of not living in Michigan. A co-founder and writer for SweatpantsErection.com, she sought out the ultimate celebrity scandals—and how they could best be told through plastic dolls. In 2005, she took a hiatus from celebrity dish to earn an MFA in Writing degree from the University of San Francisco. Now, as a content writer for the Noozler team, she once again embraces the art of the celebrity op-ed. When not watching The Two Coreys, she enjoys cooking, long walks on the beach and vintage Massengill commercials on YouTube.

Karen Laven (dalimadre)

Karen (www.karenlaven.com) is the author of several recent nonfiction books (Cincinnati Ghosts, Dayton Ghosts) and a middle-grade fiction adventure Quit Bugging Me ("author" translation/also a paradox: she's a somewhat portly starving artist). She is a former newspaper feature writer whose essays and articles have appeared in magazines across the country. Living in Northern Kentucky (aka: the riveting hub of celebrity activity) Karen shares that contributing to Noozler Says is the coolest gig she's nabbed so far. She is a wife and mother of two boys (one is 17, the other 12) who repeatedly tell her "coolest" went out in the 70's. (She remains nonplussed: just like Richard Simmons, it will be back.) Speaking of which; her dream is to attend a cocktail party thrown by Simmons with Jim Neighbors, Martin Milner and Charo hanging around the bar. Now that would be cool.