'Tis the season for acquisitions, it seems (ahem). The latest is the news that VeriSign has acquired the assets of Dave Winer's weblogs.com pinging service for a price of $2.3 million. They appear to have seen the future of the web, and that future is pings. As such, they'll be throwing resources and infrastructure at weblogs.com, already straining under the weight of its ever-growing daily pingage. They're committing to preserving Dave's vision for the service in the following four areas: keeping it free, open, solid, and informative. Additional plans sound like they're going to involve tackling the spam blog (i.e. splog. Non-techies accusing us technogeeks of confusing, nonsensical jargon? I don't see it.) problem. Vaya con dios with that, VeriSign.
1. It's nice to see that Dave Winer’s project has made him some money. I wonder what tricks VeriSign has up its sleeves to make money off it.
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Bill