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Michael Graves / infrablog.verisignlabs.com:
Weblogs 2.0 — Word is out, and it's true: VeriSign has acquired the assets of Dave Winer's weblogs.com. I'm sure Dave will have plenty to say on the subject, but weblogs.com this past year has reached a point where Dave needed to either a) invest significant capital into the development of Weblogs 2.0 …
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Niall Kennedy's Weblog, ben barren, Susan Mernit's Blog, Netcraft and B.L. Ochman's weblog
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kottke.org:
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). This is an interesting one because it seemed crazy (see below) when I first heard about it …
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hyku | blog, Brian Sullivan's Random …, rexblog.com, Roland Tanglao's Weblog and The RSS Blog
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What a day! — These notes were written on the flight from Cincinnati to Greensboro, early yesterday evening. — Today was a travel day, an interesting one for sure, unique in many ways. It was the first time I began a trip in the East Bay, and I learned a ton about getting from Berkeley to SFO for an 11AM weekday flight.
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Report: Winer Sells Weblogs.com To Verisign : Updated at 9:05 p.m. eastern: VeriSign has officially confirmed this, on its company blog, here..more later... Jason Kottke is reporting with a healthy amount of skepticism that Dave Winer has sold Weblogs.com, the largest and oldest ping service, to Verisign.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Rumor: Weblogs.com sold to Verisign — Latest rumor, as reported on Jason Kottke's site: Weblogs.com sold to Verisign? — Note: this is different than weblogsinc.com, which WAS sold to AOL yesterday. — Dave Winer is my friend, so I can neither confirm nor deny this rumor …
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
10 Things About Web 2.0 Conference — It has been quite a blur, but there were some exciting side notes which I wanted to report from Web 2.0 conference. — The Web 1.0 party at the House of Shields was rocking, and well it was a massive success. You knew it was over when pretty blondes started showing up at the event.
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Lifehacker, O'Reilly Radar, Open Source, Genuine VC, Between the Lines, TechCrunch, Moore's Lore, ben barren and Infectious Greed
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Darren Rowse / Blog Tips at ProBlogger:
Weblogs Inc Sale to AOL Confirmed - Here's the Inside Word — I've just been forwarded an email which was sent from Weblogs Inc Co-Founder Brian Alvey to Weblogs Inc's bloggers. It was sent to me by WIN blogger who wants to remain nameless. I won't publish it in full here as its a private email …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
WeblogsInc: More — : I asked my friend Nick Denton whether he had comment on the WeblogsInc/AOL deal. And he said: … : Just saw Tina Sharkey, the AOL exec who made the deal to buy WeblogsInc. Usual "very excited" soundbites. She says it will be run as a separate company keeping separate URLs …
Mike / Techdirt:
And Now Comes The Real Blog Bubble — from the so,-what's-hot-now? dept. — Rafat Ali got the scoop last night, and today it's been confirmed that AOL is buying Weblogs Inc.. As others are noting this is probably a good deal for the crew at Weblogs Inc., but not necessarily such a good deal for AOL.
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Qumana Blog, Life On the Wicked Stage, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, paradox1x, Colin's Corner and Blogebrity
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Enterprise Anti-Spyware Plans Take Shape — Microsoft moved a step closer to becoming a key player in the Internet security business with the announcement Thursday of a new enterprise-class anti-spyware product featuring technology to thwart viruses, worms and kernel rootkits.
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Jeffrey McManus:
Terry Semel at Web 2.0: "We'll Always Be More Open Than Google" — Terry (Yahoo!'s head honcho) just got done being interviewed by Jon Battelle at Web 2.0. I took rough notes which I'll dump here unedited for now. — Update: Danny at Search Engine Watch quoted my transcript liberally …
creativecommons.org:
CC in Review: Lawrence Lessig on Supporting the Commons — Submitted by Lawrence Lessig on 2005-10-06 10:38 AM. — So today, Creative Commons launches its first fund raising campaign. Until now, we've lived on very generous grants from some very wise foundations.
