Dear readers, I’m happy to finally be able to announce that I’ve formally joined the team over at VentureBeat as a full time writer. Under the guidance of VentureBeat founder Matt Marshall, myself, Eric Eldon and Dean Takahashi have launched a new wing dubbed ‘VentureBeat DigitalMedia‘.

We plan on using this new site to cover the tech world in our various fields of expertise as well as branch out into some new ones including fast-growing tech-infused markets in Los Angeles and New York. We have a lot of great stuff planned, and I really hope that everyone who has frequented ParisLemon over the years will check out VentureBeat DigitalMedia.

As many of you have noticed and asked about, posting has slowed down at ParisLemon as I’ve been transitioning over to VentureBeat. While I certainly will not be able to keep up the torrid pace at ParisLemon that I have been over the past several months, I hope you will still stick around to read what should be different, perhaps more opinionated takes on tech and new media here.

I sincerely want to thank all of you readers out there who have made it possible for me to move into doing this as a career. I would not have been able to do this without your support and readership.

As always feel free to email me or send me Twitter messages and I will do my best to respond in a timely manner given what my inbox looks like now (a joke). For those Google employees out there reading, perhaps an expansion of the ’star’ system in Gmail is in order soon? I really don’t want to have to switch to a desktop email client.

As a reminder, I will be at SXSW in Texas starting tomorrow for the week. Anyone else there who wants to me up, Twitter/email/stop by – I’ll be at the Sheraton downtown.

I’m excited to work with Matt, Eric and Dean (who has a great introduction post here) – as well as VentureBeat’s other writers Anthony Ha, Chris Morrison and David Hamilton. Oh yeah, Jacob Mullins, VB’s director of business development and sales, is a pretty cool guy as well when he’s not making me walk through torrential downpours in San Francisco.

Exciting times lay ahead.