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Mystery blog platform Blogsmith sold !

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Recently (especially  Last week) there has been rumors around blogosphere that the Mystery Blog platform “Blogsmith” is acquired by AOL. Looks like the speculation was somewhat true, as Brian Alvey the co-owner of Blogsmith confirmed it.

“Blogsmith” which powered Weblogs inc. and some handful of blog, is yet another project of Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey. This blog publishing platform is coded in PHP & MySQL. But initially Blogsmith earlier version was in ASP. Though Weblog Inc. was acquired by AOL over a year ago, but since “Blogsmith” was totally separate company that was still property of Jason & Brian (That’s what Brian explained).

The price of this deal was not officially declared as both Jason & Brian didn’t mention it straight. Though valleywag did noted that the deal went through with $4-5 million.

The founders of the Weblogs Inc. Network sold their Blogsmith blogging platform to AOL (who bought WIN in 2005) last week, according to founder Jason Calacanis. Sounds like AOL paid $4-5 million. The deal wasn’t public until now.

Question is what next for “Blogsmith”, will it still remain a mystery or AOL will launch it as public release? Brian’s thought on that:

So what is AOL going to do with Blogsmith? Whatever they want to do with it.
Is AOL going to release Blogsmith to the public as a Typepad/WordPress/YouTube/Wal-Mart/Starbucks-killer or not? Yes.

I can’t wait to see “Blogsmith” in action, as far as I have seen “Blogsmith” will be a great contender in blog publishing platform war. Time will set the rest.

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Posted in Blogosphere, News on November 13th, 2006

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  1. Bloggism.net » Blogosphere weekend summarized Says:
    November 16th, 2006 at 3:09 pm

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  2. Bloggism.net - Blogosphere weekend summarized Says:
    December 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    [...] the week: Quite a few also in this section. b5 have new looks, Blogmedia is selling Mobility Watch, Blogsmith got sold to AOL- to be the top of these [...]


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