Blog company Automattic buys Blo.gs
Automattic, the company that runs the popular Wordpress blogging software, has acquired the Blo.gs pinging and blog trackback technology from Yahoo.
Services like Blo.gs give bloggers a way to quickly “ping,” or alert search engines and RSS readers when their new content gets posted. Especially for competitive news blogs like VentureBeat, speed is a necessity, because we can sometimes break a story, but we may not be credited with it if we don’t get the word… Continue Reading