Do Big Blog Deals Mean Your Blog is Worth Lots of Money

Posted on October 16, 2005

Several bloggers are looking back on the week's big blog-related acquisition news which includes the sale of Weblogs, Inc., Weblogs.com and Moreover to corporate giants.

AOL followed up on its purchase of Weblogs, Inc by cutting a content deal with BlogPulse.com, a blog search engine and blog data provider. The news about AOL buying Weblogs, Inc. started a blog network craze. Other bloggers announced how much their individual blog is now worth. The Business Opportunities weblog created a script based on tnl.net's calculations that generates a button that bloggers can put on their site to state the enormous amount of money their blog is worth. These are way overvalued but it is fun to have the button on your blog saying it is worth great gobs of money.

VeriSign acquired Weblogs.com, a leading ping server created by Dave Winer, and Tom Foremski at SiliconValleyWatcher wonders if executives at Verisign and AOL got a copy of Cluetrain Manifesto for their birthday. Foremski also debated amongst himself whether or not the owners of these blog services sold products with little upside value.


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