[FLOSS-based] Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time

February 15, 2003
Google Buys Pyra: Blogging Goes Big-Time
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000802.shtml#000802
• posted by Dan Gillmor 07:41 PM
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NOTE: This is a slightly edited version of a special column running in
tomorrow's San Jose Mercury News. We're posting it early to get the story out.

Weblogs are going Googling.

Google, which runs the Web's premier search site, has purchased Pyra Labs,
a San Francisco company that created some of the earliest technology for
writing weblogs, the increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.

The buyout is a huge boost to an enormously diverse genre of online
publishing that has begun to change the equations of online news and
information. Weblogs are frequently updated, with items appearing in
reverse chronological order (the most recent postings appear first).
Typically they include links to other pages on the Internet, and the topics
range from technology to politics to just about anything you can name. Many
weblogs invite feedback through discussion postings, and weblogs often
point to other weblogs in an ecosystem of news, opinions and ideas.

"I couldn't be more excited about this," said Evan Williams, founder of
Pyra, a company that has had its share of struggles. He wouldn't discuss
terms of the deal, which he said was signed on Thursday, when we spoke
Saturday. But he did say it gives Pyra the "resources to build on the
vision I've been working on for years."
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