valleywag.com — The Weblogs Inc. Network sold its Blogsmith blogging platform to AOL (who bought WIN in 2005) last week, according to founder (and Netscape head) Jason Calacanis. Sounds like AOL paid $3-5 million. The deal wasn't public until now.
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raianNov 9, 2006
I feel so sorry for the investors of AOL... not as a jab at Calacanis, but because the people running AOL feel the need to buy all these crappy companies and technologies with such little focus or reason.
mellertimeNov 9, 2006
Seriously. If there's ever someone who needs to get fired, it's him. The new Netscape.com he's in charge of is such a miserable failure, it almost makes me feel sorry for him. And then I go and read his blog and the hatred is rekindled...
echimuNov 9, 2006
I am sure wordpress is better platform. Why not support wordpress instead of purchasing some a$$jack platform. Boy companies waste money on useless stuff.
nickdouglasNov 9, 2006Submitter
For what it's worth (I wrote the dugg article), I hear from WIN bloggers (with little loyalty to the company) that Blogsmith is actually a great system. I'll see if I can get one to comment on the features.Question now is, will AOL license Blogsmith for free as WIN hinted it would do?
tommaszNov 9, 2006
I can honestly say I never heard of the Blogsmith platform. As a result, I'm not sure if the price paid by AOL is good or not.