February 19, 2003

  • Will Google + Blogger = Goggler?


     


    What’s up with John Hiler’s (xanga's CEO-type) Microcontent News, “The Online Magazine for Weblogs, Webzines, and Personal Publishing” ?  It used to have daily, breaking news from all over the web about blogs, but as of late, the most current news is dated Jan, 20th.  And that is much too old to capture this story:


     


    Google Acquires Blog Software Firm



    Namely, Blogger.

     


    Google, putting money where its portal is, has thus declared that it believes Blogs are BIG Business!


     


    This is a great boost for blogging as a genre, and for the blogosphere as a whole.  But what are the implications for xanga?  Will Blogger become a much better community service and start to outclass xanga?  Will xanga benefit from an overspill of the popularity that Google will bring to Blogger?  And…


     


    ...Can xanga expect its own buyout offer from a business like Yahoo or Overture (which recently acquired Alta-Vista)…or even Geocities (a Yahoo holding) in order to go head-to-head with Google’s enterprising vision for blogging?


     


    John, are you going to sellout if there’s an “offer you can’t refuse” ?


     


    My question is: If Geocities or someone else buys xanga, do they have to make a separate offer to me to include my content under their aegis?  lmao


     


    So…maybe, since Blogger has now taken the “next step” towards blogging revenue generation, I’ll focus the statistical study I envisioned yesterday on the differences between xanga and Blogger.


     


    And, yes, I already have my own Blogger Blogspot.

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