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Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain

techcrunch.com — New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams ’ Odeo. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash. Twitter is NOT part of the deal, it was spun off into a separate company earlier this month.

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  • skell, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Good for Ev! Odeo had some great potential back in it's day. Is it really utilized much these days though?
    • SpFmmTrist, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2TWITTER FTW
    • macewan, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1@skell (#6610414)
      agreed, good for him.

      Twitter is not affected thankfully.
    • arewhyfour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I got out bid :( Personally I didn't think their asking price was all that reasonable or the extras they requested. But, who am I to judge?
  • treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Congrats! Evan is a top bloke... I sent him an email a few weeks ago with a some questions I had regarding being a budding young entrepreneur with big ideas, but the usual little programming skills, time and cash (the same problems he faced when he first started out). I actually got a quick and sincere reply which basically said keep at it, learn some programming as it will be helpful etc... but it was still pretty cool.
    • mikev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ev seems to be really down to earth. Hopefully he will put the money to good use and improve Twitter. :P
  • tommasz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This situation seems remarkably similar to what happened with Blogger. Blogger was a side project of Pyra Labs in the same way Twitter was a side project of Odeo. Pyra eventually folded without ever producing a product, so you have to wonder about Odeo. That price seems awfully low to me.
  • lamestory, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1WebTech - sincere thanks for submitting every TechCrunch post to Digg.
    Really. Thanks for the blog spam.
    Really.
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