October 6, 2005

AOL To Buy Weblogs Inc

by Piers Fawkes

AOL is to buy  Jason Calacanis‘ Weblogs Inc blog empire, PaidContent suggests (rather proudly). According to the report, Calcanis did the rounds with Yahoo, News Corp and MSN before signing a deal with AOL. Estimates suggest the value of the sale could reach $35m.

Weblogs Inc has a network of about 80 fairly standard blogs and a couple of gems (Engadget and Luxist). This deal is a great sign for the future viability of blogging as a successful business model, I feel.

… hmmm, so if PSFK has three blogs that would mean our value would be $35m/80×3=?? ;)

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2 Responses to “AOL To Buy Weblogs Inc”

  1. Tecniblog
    Posted from: 64.111.108.15

    October 6th, 2005 at 3:51 am

    AOL compra WeblogsInc

    AOL ha comprado WeblogsInc, la compañía dedicada a crear contenido cuasi-profesional en blogs -y pionera en este campo-, por 25 millones de dólares. WeblogsInc, creada por Jason Calacanis y Brian Alvey. Recordemos que WeblogsInc ganaba alrededor…

  2. PSFK
    Posted from: 66.151.149.25

    October 6th, 2005 at 1:19 pm

    More Blog Buying

    First AOL buy Weblogs Inc, reportedly, and now Verisign buy Weblogs.com for $5m reportedly here.

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