Rumour: Weblogs.com Sold to Verisign for $5M
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Report: Winer Sells Weblogs.com To Verisign: Jason Kottke is reporting with a
Report: Winer Sells Weblogs.com To Verisign: Jason Kottke is reporting with a
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Continuing the saga of Bubble2.0™ comes fresh rumour that Dave Winer has sold Weblogs.com to Verisign for $5M - Weblogs.com was the first "ping service" - fuck knows what Verisign want with it, maybe they just dont want to be left standing with the nerdy kids when all the cool kids are busy flashing their boobs at bloggers?
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Bubble2.0 - most definitely.
Bubble2.0 - most definitely. I just wonder if that's an opportunity or not.
"...fuck knows what Verisign
"...fuck knows what Verisign want with it, maybe they just dont want to be left standing with the nerdy kids when all the cool kids are busy flashing their boobs at bloggers?"
Another quote of the year contender. heh heh.
Yeah
I especially like "flashing their boobs at bloggers". Quality.
I'll let my blog go for 1
I'll let my blog go for 1 million
Confirmed by Verisign
Ok, so it's a long post, that talks about buggerall for the most part, but they
Welcome to the Infrablog: Weblogs 2.0
It all sounds very nice, but how the hell will analasys at the network level do any better than GOOG/Yahoo et al's algorithms?
I wont say it's bollocks, cos maybe i dont understand it well enough, but i can't see it...
Very interesting move for
Very interesting move for Verisign. So the blogs are to be used as some kind of "honeypot" or "field lab".
My own guess is that G/Y only see the secondary effects. The blogs are in the front line, so that's where all the spam comes in - that's the best place to set up filters.
Aem.. CNN reports that AOL bought Weblogs?
http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/06/technology/aol_weblogs.reut/
..or did I miss something?
you dont think that would
you dont think that would have gone unnoticed HERE do you raz?
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/4115
Hehe, of course not Nick
Being on the the top 100 blog dawgs, nothing is missed here ;)
I was just wondering though, who bought it then? Verisign or AOL?
AOL This thread is about
AOL
This thread is about verisign buying weblogs.com not weblogs inc - confusing isnt it? :)
I got confused as well, but
I got confused as well, but that com site is basically spammers paradise, as it seems it's just a free-for-all place to blast your messages at. The more I think about it the more obvious it is to run some data mining on that.
Geez...
Someone from India emailed this morning and offered to buy my site from me for $3,000.
AOL? Verisign? Do I hear a better offer? ;)