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posted Feb 14 @ 09:19 PM by Jason Kottke

Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves

Google buys Measure Map, Jeff Veen leaves Adaptive Path to work at Google.

posted Jan 24 @ 05:37 PM by Jason Kottke

It’s a done deal…Disney is buying

It’s a done deal…Disney is buying Pixar. This bums me out in a lot of different ways. The big winner? Apple Computer.

posted Dec 9 @ 02:47 PM by Jason Kottke

Yahoo! buys del.icio.us…muxway is

Yahoo! buys del.icio.us…muxway is all growed up. There’s an interesting story in here somewhere about how Yahoo! is hiring/buying the “alpha geeks” (hackers, tinkerers, accidental entrepreneurs) and Google seemingly isn’t (Ph.Ds, computer scientists) and what effect that could have on each company’s development.

posted Oct 31 @ 08:33 AM by Jason Kottke

Michael Bierut offers a requiem for the

Michael Bierut offers a requiem for the AT&T logo by Saul Bass. SBC is buying AT&T, keeping the name, but introducing a new logo.

posted Oct 7 @ 08:19 AM by Jason Kottke

Dave Winer comments on the weblogs.com/

Dave Winer comments on the weblogs.com/Verisign deal…odd omission of a link to my post even though he references it several times. Bad luck that I caught him traveling; if I’d realized that beforehand, I would have held off. Dave seems to trust Verisign to do the job; I think Verisign has shown itself to be an untrustworthy, terrible company.

posted Oct 6 @ 10:49 PM by Jason Kottke

Verisign confirms their purchase of weblogs.com from Dave Winer.

posted Oct 6 @ 11:39 AM by Jason Kottke

Weblogs.com sold to Verisign

Boy, the scent of money is in the air these days. The latest report is that Dave Winer has sold weblogs.com to Verisign (~~~$5 million is the figure being bandied about~~ for $2.3 million). This is an interesting one because it seemed crazy (see below) when I first heard about it, but now that I’ve heard it from multiple sources, who knows?

Verisign is interested in blogs and RSS (another of their acquisitions in this space will be announced soon) and it’s not hard to see why Dave would sell weblogs.com (the site needs some firm financial backing to keep from buckling under the ever-increasing strain of all those pings), but to Verisign? To me, Verisign embodies the idiocy and ineptitude of the BigCos Dave often rails against…the BigCo to end all BigCos. If true, those are some odd bedfellows indeed.

Update: Silicon Beat says they have confirmation that Verisign bought weblogs.com:

We’re getting confirmation that the rumors about Verisign buying Dave Winer’s Weblogs.com are true. The price is $2 million. What Verisign wants with Weblogs is another matter. Weblogs was one of the first, if not the first, centralized ping servers that blogs could use to alert the world to new content.

I like how when a weblog has two independent sources on something, it’s a “rumor”…

Update #2: Verisign confirms the purchase.

posted Oct 5 @ 10:41 PM by Jason Kottke

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