Tag: weblogs
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Any questions for Jason Calacanis?
I’m interviewing Jason Calacanis later on today (Friday 22nd) for a PodLeaders podcast. I will be talking to him about Weblogs Inc., the Tesla and Mahalo, amongst other things. If you have any questions you’d like me to put to Jason, please leave them in the comments of this post.
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Bleak outlook for ping?
Matt reckons Verisign’s purchase of Weblogs.com means that the outlook for ping is poor: Verisign, which does not have a particularly good history in the blogosphere, has purchased Weblogs.com. This leaves Ping-O-Matic as the only large-scale and independent ping relay service left.
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Dot blog bubble
With all the mergers and acquisitions going on at the minute, it is only natural to wonder what the value of your site/blog is. I see Tom Murphy recently mentioned that Boards.ie was offered $750,000 for the site back in the original dot.com bubble but they turned it down. I wonder what it would be…
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What exactly is RSS?
Have you heard about RSS and wondered what exactly it is? Well in technospeak RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it is a family of XML file formats for web syndication. To put it more simply, the technology behind RSS allows internet users to subscribe to websites that have provided RSS feeds so that…
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Blog for sale – apply within!
I see on Dave Winer’s blog that he has confirmed the rumour that he sold Weblogs.com to Versign – he neglected to say how much for! The rumour mill is putting a figure of ~$5m on it. Couple that with the news that AOL are buying Weblobsinc.com for somewhere between $25-$40m, and the news of…
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Weblogs Inc to be bought by AOL
I see PaidContent.org and Reuters are reporting that AOL are about to buy Weblogs Inc. network for $25m! Weblogs Inc was set up by Jason Calacanis two years ago as a network of blogs and includes under its umbrella titles such as Engadget and Autoblog. According to Calacanis, Weblogs Inc earns in excess of $1m…
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Scoble switches to WordPress
I see Robert Scoble is switching to WordPress as his blogging engine of choice – way to go Robert! His new WordPress-powered blog will be on the hosted WordPress site WordPress.com at the address http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/. Although this site uses WordPress, I haven’t tried the hosted version of WordPress so I can’t comment on how different…