A lot of people have wished us well since the rumors about this deal broke in November. Thank you to one and all!
The team is moving out to California over the next few weeks. We’ll do our best to stay on top of customer service. Please let me know if we slip on something.
There are four posts to read for the details: Eric’s, Chad’s at Yahoo, Quentin Hardy’s, and Om’s.
And TechCrunch makes five.
To quote the most critical part of Eric’s post….
We owe so much of this to you, for becoming passionate about MyBlogLog and posting about us, building widgets on top of our service and just taking time out of your busy life to connect with other people on your favorite sites and blogs.Special thanks go out (what is this, the freakin’ Oscars) to a couple of key people: Josh Kopelman for originally asking why the heck social networks were stuck on a single site, Fred Wilson and Brad Feld for becoming true believers and Andy Baio for inspiring me to create a link blog about this time two years ago, without which I never would have asked Todd to figure out how to track my links.
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Yahoo! Buys MyBlogLog
Wow, that was fast. I only signed up for MyBlogLog a week ago, and they just announced they’ve been bought by Yahoo!. TechCrunch estimates the price was around $10-12 million.
Here’s my MyBlogLog review from not even last week.
Since then,…
[...] Yup, Yahoo! Bought Us [...]
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MyBlogLog — bringing joyful happenstance to Yahoo!
One truly great thing about real friends in the real world is that they inject a joyful happenstance into your daily life. A random phone call to say hi. An unexpected email asking you to meet up for coffee. An
[...] Techcrunch, Scott Rafer and Om Malik confirm that MyBlogLog has been bought by Yahoo. [...]
[...] I had been planning on doing a review of MyBlogLog but wanted to spend some time using it first. Today as I was going through my Google Reader, I read that Yahoo! is buying MyBlogLog, so there is no time like the present to do this review. [...]
Congratulations Scott and MyBlogLog team. MBL has become one of my favorite tools for analyzing content and use on my blogs.
[...] Congrats to Scott Rafer and company at MyBlogLog, which was acquired by Yahoo! for a rumored purchase price of $10-12 million. Great for them, but is it great for Yahoo? Don Dodge of Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team did the math, and doesn’t get the rumored valuation - guessing based on MyBlogLog’s staff size, user base, time it took to build, and so on that it’s worth somewhere between a quarter and a half of that. Unless, Don writes, Yahoo has a grand strategy for all these acquisitions that will someday make MyBlogLog look like a bargain at $10M. [...]
Two Dom, Two to Go
So, we’re nine days into the new year and I’ve already sent out two bottles of Dom. The first bottle was sent to Scott Weiss. I first met Scott in December of 2000 — and quickly became convinced that he
[...] Oh, and I am going to be one of the only people to link through to Scott Rafer’s blog [...]
FVB > Yahoo Buys the Future of the Internet: MBL
Eric and the MyBlogLog guys made it official last week — Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog. I couldn’t be happier for the whole crew over there including Eric, Todd, Scott, John, Steve and even the CloudSpace cheering squad. I’m especially proud of these…
[...] To take the street artist metaphor further (for your benefit, I’ll forsake the doggy calling card metaphor), each time a street artist throws up a sticker or tags a wall, her notoriety (and brand) increases. It’s the definition of guerrilla marketing and self-promotion. Well, MyBlogLog enables that for online publishers. Each time I read an article by other MyBlogLog users like Chad, Bradley, Scott, Eric, Matt, Jeremy, Marc, Susan, Yahoo!, Michael, or Richard, my “notrivers” avatar appears on the page instantly…and when people click on it they can make their way to my MyBlogLog profile page and eventually to my site. And traffic is to a publisher what notoriety is to a street artist. [...]
[...] To take the street artist metaphor further (for your benefit, I’ll forsake the doggy calling card metaphor), each time a street artist throws up a sticker or tags a wall, her notoriety (and brand) increases. It’s the definition of guerrilla marketing and self-promotion. Well, MyBlogLog enables that for online publishers. Each time I read an article by other MyBlogLog users like Chad, Bradley, Scott, Eric, Matt, Jeremy, Marc, Susan, Yahoo!, Michael, or Richard, my "notrivers" avatar appears on the page instantly…and when people click on it they can make their way to my MyBlogLog profile page and eventually to my site. And traffic is to a publisher what notoriety is to a street artist. [...]
[...] Part of Yahoo’s mission statement is about helping people connect to their passions and communities and MyBlogLog falls right into that line. Welcome aboard Scott and congratulations Bradley and Chad for making this happen. [...]