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Weblogs Purchase Confusion
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Just remember, don't confuse AOL buying Weblogs, Inc. with Verisign buying weblogs.com. 
Update 2005.10.07:12h12:
While the above points to the Om Malik and Silicon Beat stories in which I first read about these acquisitions, as well as to the web sites for Weblogs, Inc. and weblogs.com, I've been told that this doesn't help to clear up the confusion.
Weblogs, Inc. is, arguably, the first mass media organization built on wiki(blogware), and produces almost 100 blogs, including one of the most popular blog sites on the Internet, Engadget, in categories such as Consumer, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Life Sciences. AOL, Inc. is the old electronic bulletine board system that once competed with the likes of the defunct Compuserver, The Well and Prodigy, and now competes with Earthlink as an ISP and Yahoo! as an Internet Portal. It is the last of the mass-market closed content, members-only sites with its own client software. There is an obvious fit between AOL, the content server, and Weblogs, Inc. the content producer/server. I predict a lessening of popularity in the most popular Weblogs, Inc sites and an increase of poplularity for their lesser known sites.
wiki(Dave_Winer,Dave Winer's) weblogs.com is a RSS pinging service, most used by, duh, weblogs to announce a new post/article. VeriSign is the Internet security company best known for their SSL certificates. Here's what Dave has to say about the deal.
And please, go to Kottke's original post.
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