With new owner, Scribnia to move to Canada, New York

After a long trial separation, it looks like Scribnia and Philadelphia are breaking up.
To refresh your memory, the author rating service was founded by Dartmouth grads Russell D’Souza and Jack Groetzinger during last year’s DreamIt Ventures class. Before their time at DreamIt was up, the duo sold the company and went on to found Seatgeek, which presented at TechCrunch 50.
Scribnia was trying to become the Yelp of internet writers giving each author a page where readers could rate the writers on several criteria based on the writer’s niche. Technically Philly profiled the company last year.

New owner and former HispanoClick CEO Marc Duquette purchased the company for an undisclosed sum and is now in the process of setting up duel offices in his native Montreal and in the 67th Ward. As of now, all of the company employees only work virtually.
Scribnia employees David Spinks and Saad Muhktar have stayed on board and the company is now shifting operations, placing less emphasis on the Scribnia Web site, instead promoting author widgets that writers can place on their homepage to have readers rate them.
In June the company hopes to include advertising with the widget, giving authors a 50/50 split on revenue.