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Yahoo! Just Acquired MyBlogLog (Tracker & Community)

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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
17 years ago4,161 views



Yahoo Developer Blog
http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/01/08/bloggers-unite-yahoo-joins-forces-with-mybloglog

MyBlogLog Blog
http://mybloglogb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/01/the_jig_is_up_m.html

Sankar Anand [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Thanks its nice that yahoo started the google way....

Andrew Girdwood [PersonRank 1]

17 years ago #

I think you're right Philipp. Yahoo does tend to buy communities – and also more established companies and sites. Google tends to go for the start-ups which so promise.

Google take the risks whereas Yahoo will spend a little more money after the company/idea has proven itself. In Larry and Sergey wrote, "We will not shy away from high-risk, high-reward projects because of short term earnings pressure." in their letter to investors for the IPO.

What about YouTube? That does go somewhat against the trend but doesn't disqualify the trend. YouTube's staff count was relatively small. The deal was $1.6bn in shares (bold of YouTube to accept that) which pales against the ~$1.2n in actual money for dMarc. Google buying YouTube is akin to Google moving to Usenet's archives or even Blogger.

DPic [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

When comes the MeasureMap?

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