News today that Automattic/we have acquired blo.gs from Yahoo!. We approached Yahoo! a while ago to ask about their plans for blo.gs and were able to structure a deal to take it over. We plan to maintain continuity for blo.gs users. Matt has more details.
I don’t know if this is part of a larger trend of Yahoo! concentrating more on its core business, but I found Yahoo! to be refreshingly quick and focused to work with on this deal.
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This should be interesting! Gotta get more hardware than that 1 server though!
It hasn't run on 1 server for a long long time. I need to update that page 🙂
I'd be interested to see some details on the server setup. Clustering?
I'm very interested in distributed computing these days!
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Congrats again guys; delighted to see blo.gs find such a good home.
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Aleady read and comented few months ago over MA.TT's blog however I want to ask any idea when it will be up and functionaling again? I check the news section but the latest update is on Apr 21st and it's not working yet.
Congrats Automattic… WordPress is great tool – and it seems Automattic will also do a good job in making Blo.gs a HIT product
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