Comments on: big news in blogland:

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 00:27:52 +0000

Add Dave Winer’s deal into the mix and it reminds me of the dot-con boom. I can’t help but wonder when Joi will see his pay for investing with the Trotts. They would be next in line for a big deal. Or did they already and I was sleeping when it happened?

By: sandra

sandra — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:06:17 +0000

There was actually a lot of talk about things related to your blogging points in the previous post at Web 2.0 this week. And a big wow re: VNU deal — I hadn’t heard about that one.

By: Herr Herrner

Herr Herrner — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:04:45 +0000

One of the first results of the Gawker/VNU-Deal is a german version of gizmodo (de.gizmodo.com), which is really terrible. Nothing to open a bottle of champagne on.

By: SeanBohan.com

SeanBohan.com — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:22:18 +0000

Weblogs Inc and Gawker Media Deals

Rafat Ali reports on PaidContent that AOL has bought Jason Calcanis’ Weblogs Inc. Hugh Macleod says that Gawker has just done a deal with VNU.
I love to see the $ going to those working in this space. When my buddy Ace at East India Branding s…

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Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:35:27 +0000

Big News In Blog Land!

Rafat Ali at Paid Content reports that AOL (of all companies!) is buying Jason Calcanis’ Weblogs Inc. for as much as $35 million. Add this to the news that Nick Denton’s Gawker Media has teamed up with international media conglomerate VNU, and it’s eas…

By: Niti Bhan

Niti Bhan — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:15:55 +0000

Aah, the question really is, who gets to buy hugh?
[pun intended ]

By: Daniel Nicolas

Daniel Nicolas — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:47:08 +0000

Wait.… then what happens if Google buys AOL?

By: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:14:39 +0000

Shhhh!
I don’t think the AOL news is official yet . . .