MyBlogLog and Yahoo
The announcement has filtered out of a semi relaunch of MyBlogLog courtesy of its Yahoo benefactors - to near universal Ennui 2.0, for example here. Indeed, it was news to many that the takeover had been done back in January.
MyBlogLog - little more than a gimmick? A piece of javascript just too far?
One day, much along the lines of the WordPress download crack, someone is going to get to the relevant URI and create an interesting havoc on the few million sites that host the 3rd party code. It’s the downside of Web Services.
Yahoo bought the company and it subsided into a quiet black hole. Even with the data mining, where’s the real money here? And although this is not Yahoo’s question to answer, why is this service better administered by a web giant?
It’s very difficult to avoid the conclusion - a shiny Web2.0 acquisition made in some haste and repented at some leisure.
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Jonty Allen | May 15, 2007
