It’s funny, of all the things I though b5 would become known for, our workspace was never one of them. However, as part of keeping costs down, Mark and I have been spending a fair amount of time huddled together in my basement. I think people started talking about it after Mark did a presentation at the Toronto Venture Group. Since then, everyone we talk to about office space is like “oohhhh, you’re outgrowing the basement, eh?”.

Well, as of Monday, a third musketeer is joining the Toronto b5media team. And we *are* outgrowing the basement! The third musketeer? None other than Gary King!

Mark and I met Gary at mesh last year. Gary rocked his presentation, and everyone was wishing he wasn’t in school so they could snap him up. So, when Gary’s internship came up and we heard he was looking for a Web 2.0 gig where he could get really deep into the business and not just be relegated to make-work projects in some dark closet (he can’t work in our dark closet, that’s where Mark sleeps!)… Well, we jumped at the chance to have Gary join the team.

Gary just accepted our offer, which means that our little 2-person space here simply won’t work… No, we’re going to need to upgrade the facilities. We’re moving up to the b5cave. The actual physical location of the b5cave is a pretty closely guarded location (by Mark’s wife, and she plays aussie-rules hockey so you don’t want to mess with her!), but we’ll have some pictures and such once we’re all settled.

For those who’re keeping track, this brings the b5 team to 10 (Darren, Shai, Mark, Aaron, Christina, Ben, Chris, Tris, Gary and moi), 5 of whom are full time.

Crazy. We have a couple of more positions to fill, at which point we’ll work at introducing the entire team, what everyone does, etc. After all, I know the curiosity of what it takes to run a major blog network is eating away at just about everyone ;-) (I kid, I kid, the real reason is just that I’m incredibly proud of the team we have and I want to highlight how much they all rock!)