{"id":10113,"date":"2003-02-16T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2003-02-16T15:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10113"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:34:40","slug":"google-buys-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2003\/02\/16\/google-buys-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Google buys blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom a <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/archives\/000802.shtml#000802\">story<\/a> done for the San Jose Mercury News and reported on Dan Gillmor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.siliconvalley.com\/column\/dangillmor\/\">weblog<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\"><p>\nBut now Google will surge to the forefront of what David Krane, the company&#8217;s director of corporate communications, called &#8220;a global self- publishing phenomenon that connects Internet users with dynamic, diverse points of view while also enabling comment and participation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re thrilled about the many synergies and future opportunities between our two companies,&#8221; he said in a statement on Saturday. He didn&#8217;t elaborate further on what those synergies and opportunities might be, but said more details would emerge soon. Users of the Blogger software and hosting service won&#8217;t see any immediate changes, he added.<\/p>\n<p>For Williams and his five co-workers, now Google employees, the immediate impact will be to put their blog-hosting service, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogspot.com\/\">Blog*Spot<\/a>, on the vast network of server computers Google operates. This will make the service more reliable and robust.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThat last is good news at least. For the rest we&#8217;ll have to wait and see, but if there&#8217;s one company I trust not to fuck things up, it&#8217;s Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a story done for the San Jose Mercury News and reported on Dan Gillmor&#8217;s weblog: But now Google will surge to the forefront of what David Krane, the company&#8217;s director of corporate communications, called &#8220;a global self- publishing phenomenon that connects Internet users with dynamic, diverse points of view while also enabling comment and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,92],"tags":[303],"class_list":["post-10113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom","category-meta","tag-blogging-about-blogging-is-a-sin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10113\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}