Congrats to Dave Winer on the sale of Weblogs.com to Verisign. More later.
Tag: Weblogs
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Web 2.0: Exec bloggers
Tim O’Reilly asks Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz about being probably the highest ranking corporate blogger. Says Schwartz: “Transparency is a competitive weapon.” He says that competitors spend a fortune on marketing and spend time on one-on-one interviews with the press; he prefers the blog. O’Reilly asks whether Sun’s attorneys read the blog before he posts; he says they wish they did but they don’t. O’Reilly confesses that he sometimes worries when he blogs that he’ll be telling his competitors too much, so he meters himself.
: Neglected to put up a link to Schwartz’s blog; it’s atop the list of Sun bloggers here.
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Web 2.0: Advertising
Red Herring covers my ad panel yesterday. I’ll be writing up reflections later.
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WeblogsInc sold to AOL
Rafat has the scoop (confirming rumors of the last few months): AOL has bought Jason Calacanis’ WeblogsInc. Whispered prices from $20 to as high as $35 million based on earnouts (that is, he gets bucks if it makes the bucks). Congrats to Jason. But AOL has a history of buying things and killing them.
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Where I’m not
I couldn’t go to WeMedia (or Converge South) because I’m at Web 2.0: confab clash. WeMedia folks are blogging their event and Al Gore is about to give the keynote. Later, I’ll blog about how Current has blown it….