Update: Since posting the following, I’ve been informed that, contrary to the reports mentioned below by TechCrunch and ValleyWag, Yahoo’s only purchase today was of Bix.com. (Also, I’m impressed with PR folks who work late on Friday nights.)
Okay, raise your hand if you’ve ever heard of MyBlogLog.com? That’s what I thought. You merely thought it was that goofy thing I’ve been messing around with so that photos of visitors to rexblog will show up over there in the right-hand column. Or maybe you’ve joined the rexblog community and noticed it was “powered by” them. Well, just to prove why you should drop by here more often, Valleywag and TechCrunch are reporting that Yahoo! is purchasing it. If the reports are accurate, my avatar friends Eric and Rafer & Co. were looking for venture funding and Yahoo! asked them if they’d ever heard the word acqhired? They said, “no,” but asked if Yahoo! had ever heard of the number ten million. For the record, I think it’s a wise investment: network effect, etc.
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November 18th, 2006 at 8:12 am
[...] Yesterday, after seeing reports that MyBlogLog had been acquired by Yahoo! in TechCrunch, ValleyWag and echo’d elsewhere, I posted a link to the reports and even included a bit of skepticism “If the reports are accurate” in my observation. (By the way, I think Yahoo! would be wise to acquire it.) [...]
January 8th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
[...] If you think you’ve heard this before, you have. Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog.com (the service that allows those photos of “recent readers” to appear over in the right-hand column of the rexblog) for a reported $10 million. The (unfortunate?) name, MyBlogLog.com, doesn’t convey how significant a concept it is — but, chances are, the creators didn’t realize when they started out that they were creating such a significant concept. It works out that way more times that not. [...]