June, 14, 2005 archives
blo.gs has been acquired by yahoo!
the sale of blo.gs has been completed, and i'm proud to announce that yahoo! has acquired the service. as of right now, give or take a few minutes, yahoo! is running blo.gs.
this is the sort of good home that i was looking for — yahoo! obviously has the resources to run and improve blo.gs in pace with the incredible growth of blogs (and syndication in general), and in talking with them it was also clear that we had some of the same vision for the future of the service and the ping/notification infrastructure.
for users of the website and the cloud interface, nothing much is changing. the service will continue to be completely open, and both yahoo! and i hope you continue to use it and help it grow.
even though i’ll no longer be operating blo.gs, i'm not going to disappear from the community. i’m still very interested in blogging and syndication, and believe that blo.gs will continue to have a major impact as a key player in the evolving ping and blogging infrastructure.
some people have asked about the privacy policy during the transition. yahoo! is keeping the blo.gs privacy policy. the data collected on blo.gs will continue to be subject to that privacy policy and you will be given the opportunity to consent to future changes.
thanks
i owe some thanks.
to don, shane, scott, paul, lev, jeremy, and all the other yahoos that made this happen. they really made clear that they got the service from the beginning, and are a great trajectory for the future.
the other prospective buyers, who made the final decision a lot tougher than it could have been. there are a lot of great people and companies out there in this space, and it was good to know that i had options.
albert at happygofun for the most recent redesign of the site.
matt, dunstan, simon, and all of the other users of blo.gs who helped prod me into making things better. and reminded me to keep it simple: not everyone wants an aggregator.
bob of pubsub for jumping on the feedmesh bandwagon with both feet, even if he wasn’t invited to foo camp.
dave and dan for weblogs.com and blogtracker, respectively, for providing the original inspiration (and data feed) for blo.gs.
and finally, my mom and dad for raising me right.
coverage of the blo.gs purchase
i think the dialpad acquisition stole my thunder. (that’s not a bad thing.)