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Yahoo Will Buy Digg Next Week for $30mil?

Kellan — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:52:00 +0000

Dear god it can’t be worth that much. Somehow Digg has always seemed soooo boring, traffic numbers aside. Or not

http://www.feedblog.org/2006/01/yahoo_will_buy_.html

Yahoo and del.icio.us: A bit of speculation

Kellan — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:45:00 +0000

So the Yahoo acquisition of del.icio.us hit every tech blog on the planet this weekend, and hardly needs more rehashing. But a couple of ideas I haven’t seen elsewhere from one of my mailing lists.

It was pointed out that

[Yahoo] recently hired all the IBM people that worked at the WebFountain project.

And that the del.icio.us database of tagged website would be an awfully juicy source of data to start analyzing. Yahoo is the obvious player to build post-search interfaces, browsable and discoverable like Yahoo of old, but this time built to Web-scale.

Meanwhile is anyone watching the Flock’s future? What with its APIs to Yahoo’s Flickr, Yahoo’s del.icio.us, and integrated editor for all those new MT blogs. Just a thought.

EBay not actually acquiring VeriSign

Kellan — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:49:55 +0000

So we won’t be seeing ‘Do you trust this certificate? A++++ excellent certificate, would do secure business with it again!!!’ anytime soon. A pity. I would have rated the comment +5 insightful, not +5 funny.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=164910&cid=13763325

Upcoming to Yahoo

Kellan — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:57:10 +0000

Congrats to Andy, Gordon, and Leonard, and about damn time. I first saw Upcoming almost exactly two years ago and thought “Wow, now that is how to do calendaring.” (and apparently I was jealous even back then!) Good luck!

Now we can all speculate on what calendar.google.com will be, but I’m thinking this round might be going to Yahoo.

update: And dear god, where I can get some of whatever Gordon is on, Upcoming and Ning!?!? No kidding “bred for skill in magic.”

update2: Flickr, Upcoming, and Ning, all built on PHP.

Hershey to Buy Scharffen Berger

Kellan — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:16:05 +0000

How sad, I wonder if I should run to TJs and stock up.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2005/07/25/ap2156176.html

business2blog: Flickr, Yahoo Deal Rumored

Kellan — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:26:21 +0000

Just to note, we had this like a month ago

http://business2.blogs.com/business2blog/2005/02/flickr_yahoo_de.html

Bloglines Getting Bought? Who Next Flickr?

Kellan — Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:24:59 +0000

Anyone else heard the rumor that Bloglines has been bought? No announcement on Mark’s blog, or to the internal list. Word on the street is they were purchased by Ask Jeeves, who has always been decidedly third rate. Alas.

update: some confirmation, and yes lots of people have heard it

update 2: I’m also hearing that flickr has fallen off the wagon (at the insistences of their funders), and will be going to Yahoo. Wonder how long till we see something on the flickr blog

update 3: Mark on the acquisition. No one else seems to have an independent source for the flickr rumor, but I’m sticking to it (I’ve heard a figure, but that seems confidential)