The NextRound Update

Not much to report this month. The site overhaul and the introduction of NextRound 1.0 is taking up the majority of our time as we continue to work on it diligently behind the scenes.

And by “diligently”, we mean cutting ourselves off after three beers at lunch.

Seeing that 1.0 is going to represent a particularly enhanced level of awesomeness, we’ve had to prolong the launch time frame to the first of ‘08. Things around here will continue to be very much status quo until January, but then we’ll be upping the ante a bit as the site will then be a “finished product” (we use the phrase loosely).

We’re excited. We actually feel like semi-serious entrepreneurs. Doing our research, testing our prototype, conducting surveys, all that uninteresting business stuff.

Once we introduce the 1.0 version of the site, we’re hoping to leverage our current readers/users for bringing in new visitors, spreading the word, etc. So go ahead and plan on ditching your “Make it to the gym more” resolution for ‘08 in favor of giving your buddies at NextRound a hand. More on that later.

In the meantime, if you have any comments or suggestions, shoot us an email at info@nextround.net. Also, we’re actually going to seriously make a push to bring in some additional contributors on a regular basis in ‘08, so if you or anyone you know is clever,  likes to write, and wants to be featured on a website, email us and we’ll give you a shot.

And now what you’ve been waiting for…

The Team Cool & Tough Update

Every month we highlight the latest happenings of everyone’s favorite crew of socially challenged twenty-something dudes. In quasi-chronological order, here are things that went down last month (as logged on Team Cool & Tough’s team page on NextRound.net).

• We started discussing our next Vegas trip. We have to push the date back from it’s standard March date to May due to the inordinate of weddings people have to attend in March. As a time saver, going forward we’re just going to talk everyone we know into getting hitched in Vegas. We’re supremely confident in our powers of persuasion.

• With all the wedding talk, and then the inevitable ‘life is over’ talk, Steve Irony reminded us that his 5 year anniversary is coming up. This revelation led to many of us having to buy new keyboards for our computers since we couldn’t clean all the vomit off the old ones.

• After two consecutive losses for our alma mater, we spent an entire day debating replacements for our head coach. Toast is convinced Mike Martz should coach college football. Everyone else is convinced Toast is an idiot.

• S-Mac informed us all of the new reality show on MTV featuring Slutty Miss USA. Everyone’s pretty excited about what a tatted up redneck she is. The Over/Under for her on the cover of Playboy in the next 12 months was decidedly under.

• The NY Times featured an article on JB. It had something to do with his new condo. No one could really concentrate on the content of the article because we were too busy discussing whether the camera adds 15 lbs, the peeping tom potential of JB’s new place, and why JB decided to go shoeless  in the accompanying photo.

• A discussion of BC’s win over Virginia Tech inevitably morphed into a discussion of how many mediocre chicks Matt Ryan now slays in the greater Boston area.

• Maske posted a mannish picture of Claire Danes since JB once claimed she was hot. S-Mac immediately provided everyone with a little too much information on trannies, even divulging the full name of the transvestite Arquette brother/sister. We were all a little creeped out.

Back next month.

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