tag:,2009:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4355- 2009-11-23T20:01:02Z Comments for Bloglines acquired by Ask Jeeves? Movable Type 4.23-en tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4355 2005-02-06T19:23:21Z 2007-12-16T23:15:39Z Bloglines acquired by Ask Jeeves? Mary Hodder has the scoop, which if true is huge news in the Web 2.0 world... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Mary Hodder has the scoop, which if true is huge news in the Web 2.0 world. Also quite eerie given what I wrote yesterday! Here's what Mary blogged:

"Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines

(Updated 12:30pm. This was apparently going to be announced Tuesday, not Monday.)

That's the scoop. Ask Jeeves is integrating Bloglines into their search system (it's not yet live on their main site, til Monday as reported).

Noted however that on Ask Jeeves new blog (it's a baby, three days old!) at the top, blog search, and the sidebar, Top Blogs and Most Popular Links go straight to Bloglines.

So Mark Fletcher will be their newest employee starting Monday. Congratulations, Mark and Bloglines! Oh, and welcome to the blogosphere, Jeeves!"

RM says: so (if this gets confirmed) once again Mark Fletcher's strategy was to get bought out by a bigger company. He's getting rather good at that ;-) Obviously I will write more about this news, once more details get released.

Update 1: PaidContent.org has some excellent early analysis. e.g.

"Selling is a great way to get around the problem of a viable business model. Mark Fletcher was on the verge of phasing in a version of adwords, which may turn out to be a good way to make money from Bloglines ... but selling should have a much faster return."

And Rafat speculates that the acquisition cycle may not yet be complete: "...it certainly makes AskJeeves [a] more palatable acquisition target".

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4355-comment:35720 Comment from tyra on 2005-02-07 tyra http://writing.syr.edu/~ttobryan/cinnaster/ that whole EPIC 2014 thing is looking less and less ficticious by the minute. or by the blog post.

]]> 2005-02-07T08:16:59Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4355-comment:35721 Comment from twdanny on 2005-02-08 twdanny http://twlog.net Is it just me or everyone else?

Starting from around this past weekend,
Bloglines services seem to be running much slower, especially when fetching posts from each feed channel. Maybe something related to the service integration with AskJeeves?

p.s some exciting news for you. I've been having some conversation on web 2.0 with bloggers here in Korea and pretty much all of them mentioned your blog as the first web 2.0 reference to take a look at. Congratulations :)

]]> 2005-02-08T10:59:51Z tag:72.47.210.69,2005://1.4355-comment:35722 Comment from Richard MacManus on 2005-02-08 Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Hmmm, I haven't noticed anything slower with Bloglines. The conspiracy theories have started ;-)

I'm extremely pleased to hear that I'm the first web 2.0 resource for the bloggers in Korea! I'm certainly trying my best to be the 'Web 2.0 Guy' around here. Thanks very much for sharing that :-)

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