Today we announced a major new initiative called The Start Project. After a few years of building fun applications, we have decided to sharpen our focus.

@thestartproject is a collaboration designed to help turn great ideas into independent businesses. We have formed a partnership with @vcmike and the folks at Polaris Ventures to give us some additional resources to create great products.

We've also brought entrepreneur and seed investor Josh Felser on board to help us find talented co-founder/CEO types who want to build and grow great businesses.

The plan is to slowly build community around the incredible entrepreneurial spirit that has driven the internet sector for more than 15 years.

Like everything online, it is a big experiment and we are taking the plunge.

Some coverage: TechCrunch,GigaOM, NYTimes.com.