http://blog.roadfly.com The Roadfly Corporate Blog. Roadflyer insights - the goings on inside and outside the Roadfly HQ. Roadfly Automotive Community, Car Reviews, News, Classifieds and more. Thu, 12 Apr 2007 03:26:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en DaimlerChrysler has just backed up what we here at Roadfly.com have been saying for years: Cut out the middle man (print media) and go straight to the people (via Internet). "We don't have the luxury any more of running print ads and waiting six months to see if ... http://blog.roadfly.com/commentary/more-auto-manufacturers-slash-print-media-advertising-budgets/ (From left to right: Laura Burkholder, Roadfly; Mark Solheim, Kiplinger's; Janis Little, Mitsubishi; Fred Staab, Cruise Control Radio; Les Jackson, Roadfly Road Test Editor; Max Farrow, Roadfly Road Test Editor) (Charlie Romero, Roadfly Publisher, test driving the new Dodge Charger Police Package edition around Pocono Raceway) I had the fantastic opportunity to ... http://blog.roadfly.com/fun-at-work/roadfly-pocono-raceway/ We here at Roadfly are happy to announce our new long term road test section. We've been entertaining you with our short term tests and reviews for years now, but a week-long impression of a vehicle can't really give you the full story on it. Now we're going to tell you ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/roadfly-launches-long-term-road-tests-editorial-section/ We're very proud to announce that Brian Armstead, a seasonsed journalist with more than 30 years of experience in radio, television, and print, has joined Roadfly as a Road Test Editor and Public Relations Director. Click here to read the full press release about Brian Armstead joining Roadfly. http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/veteran-journalist-joins-roadflycom-team/ Roadfly has offered a community events calendar since late 1999. Unfortunately, we have not updated our event calendar software since its initial release. Ouch! The feature was very much in need of an overhaul. Over the years members have made a number of excellent suggestions for improvements we should incorporate ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/new-community-events-calendar-feature/ The job of attracting new customers and retaining old ones just got a little easier for Roadfly small busines advertisers. In the past, Roadfly only offered one advertising option for direct mail and small business advertisers. The option was banner ads. This was the same advertising option offered to auto ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/admarket-beta/ First it was mp3 music, then it was Hollywood movies and now it's editorial content. Editorial content which is blatantly stolen via RSS/XML feeds. What's with all this stealing? Just because it's there doesn't mean it's free to be stolen. We recently modified the Roadfly Terms of Service to more clearly ... http://blog.roadfly.com/commentary/scraping-the-new-buzz-word-whats-with-all-this-blatent-stealing/ The Roadfly editorial staff gets invited by auto manufacturers to various driving events around the world. Sometimes they're exotic locations like South Africa or maybe the mountains of Hawaii and other times they're right here in the good ole US of A. Bein' as how we're all just a bunch ... http://blog.roadfly.com/fun-at-work/playing-in-the-mud-with-nissan-trucks/ This is quite a milestone! We reached 10 million message forum posts earlier in the month. We've had this incredible milestone on our radar for a few months. Of course, as things go, we were actually heading to Detroit to cover the 2006 North American International Auto Show when the ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/roadfly-community-forums-reach-10-million-posts/ We annually award the best of the North American International Auto Show (a/k/a the Detroit Auto Show). We award the auto manufacturers for their styling and innovation. Some years it's easier to come up with the winners than others. Here's a quick list of this years winners: • Best Value - Honda ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/2006-detroit-auto-show-awards/ Managing the 500+ images we take at a major auto show is no easy task. This year we made our life a little easier while providing the users a much better picture viewing experience. We launched our new photo gallery system before the Detroit Auto Show. It didn't take long for ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/new-roadfly-photo-gallery-serves-up-1mm-image/ We're often asked "What's new at Roadfly?" or "What have you guys been up to?" To answer the questions and to keep all of our fans informed, we launched the Roadfly Corporate Blog. Welcome to our blogging space! In the future you'll see posts made by Roadfly founders Alan Riley and ... http://blog.roadfly.com/press-releases-news/welcome-to-the-roadfly-corporate-blog/