Roundup: Six Apart’s memo, VCs and sex toys, WiMax in 2008, Newser.com & more
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Six Apart’s headaches — The blogging software market is highly competitive, so small differences in quality can make a difference in user adoption. Six Apart, a Silicon Valley start-up that offers several blogging software platforms, including Movable Type, has released a product after acknowledging internally it could make developers mad. [Six Apart’s Anil Dash has since responded in comments, saying the company took time to fix the bugs for the release. The… Continue Reading
Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6B at high cost — to stay in game
Microsoft Corp has purchased online advertising company aQuantive, for about $6 billion in cash, and is paying a significant premium to to do so.
The move comes amid a torrent of acquisitions in the advertising industry, now in the midst of profound change. Players are engaged in frantic land-grab, as traditional advertising dwindles and advertisers move online.
Microsoft, like Google, Yahoo and others, has realized economics on the Web are subject to “the network effect”: You… Continue Reading