Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines
Bloglines.com, the blog aggregator I use to read all of your blogs, announced its acquisition by Ask Jeeves today.
Things I gleaned from the press release that I don't know before:
- Bloglines.com was owned and operated by Trustic, Inc. up till now.
- Bloglines.com was chosen Time Magazine's 500 Coolest Websites for 2004
- Mark Fletcher is the CEO of Bloglines, will be VP of Ask Jeeves and GM for Bloglines.
- Mark Fletcher was also behind eGroups, now Yahoo!Groups.
- Ask Jeeves owns excite.com, iwon.com, myway.com
I first learned about Bloglines.com not through the press or word of mouth, but through the first person who subscribed to my blog at Bloglines.com back in September 2003. I first spotted bloglines.com in my referers page and followed the link as all starting bloggers tend to do.
I still don't know who my first blogline.com subscriber is. But thank you all the same for bring me to Bloglines.com. I wish Bloglines.com continued success.