Comments on: Blo.gs Lives On

By: plus c'est la même chose / May 4, 2010 1:06pm @ trainedmonkey

plus c'est la même chose / May 4, 2010 1:06pm @ trainedmonkey — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:06:28 +0000

[...] to search box plus c'est la même choseyou might remember a little over a year ago, when automattic acquired blo.gs. no signs of life yet.» may 4 (tuesday) 1:06pm » blo.gs, blogging, fads« april 3 [...]

By: Automattic acquires Blo.gs from Yahoo, development resumes « Edward Bilodeau

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:46:13 +0000

[...] 21, 2009 by ebilodeau News this morning that the update service Blo.gs has been acquired by Automattic (the WordPress folks), and development on the service will be [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:51:03 +0000

Yes, I remember this site.. very old.. it got stuck in time and I am happy that you acquired it now.. I’m sure you will bring it back to life.

By: WordPress-Entwickler übernehmen wp.com und blo.gs von Yahoo | Basic Thinking Blog

Mon, 04 May 2009 13:37:53 +0000

[...] Mitte 2005 selbst übernommen hatte. Auch mit diesem Projekt hat das Team um Matt Mullenweg laut seinem Blogeintrag noch so einiges [...]

By: Hicham Maged

Hicham Maged — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:42:23 +0000

Awsome! This means that at last bloggers will never see in the near future this silly message that appeares they automaticaly ping blogs mentioning that unable to ping ‘blo.gs’ .

Worthy that you put on the T-shirt again and Yahoo!

By: Lanny Heidbreder

Lanny Heidbreder — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:52:24 +0000

YES! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Now don’t do anything stupid or douchebaggy with it, or I’ll be trashing you like I’ve been trashing Yahoo! for years. 8)

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:57:12 +0000

Not that I recall, do you have a picture of it anywhere?

By: blo.gs lives? / April 28, 2009 10:11am @ trainedmonkey

blo.gs lives? / April 28, 2009 10:11am @ trainedmonkey — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:11:25 +0000

[...] to search box blo.gs lives?so today i happened to stumble across the news from last week that yahoo “transferred” blo.gs to automattic.i guess i can finally let the domain names lapse that i had planned to create a service like blo.gs [...]

By: Bob Wyman

Bob Wyman — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:10:42 +0000

Matt, you got the blo.gs T-shirt.. But, did you also get a FeedMesh T-Shirt? I gave them out at the meeting we at PubSub.com sponsored during Gnomedex…. I think you were there…

By: Ehsan

Ehsan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:05:46 +0000

About the wp.com domain i think you should make it a microblogging service like Tumblr but better and beat them to it !

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:33:23 +0000

I screwed up my php.ini file the other day, and when some stuff restarted it broke.

By: Angsuman Chakraborty

Angsuman Chakraborty — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:57:15 +0000

Nice to see your blog is up again. What happened yesterday? It was down for several hours.

By: Yahoo sells WP.com to WordPress | Dominik Mueller

Yahoo sells WP.com to WordPress | Dominik Mueller — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:20:26 +0000

[...] WordPress Blog, Matt Mullenweg, Toni [...]

By: WordPress.com Now Has WP.com » Benny Chandra dot com

WordPress.com Now Has WP.com » Benny Chandra dot com — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:34:49 +0000

[...] Now Has WP.com: Ternyata tidak hanya Blo.gs saja yang berhasil diambil alih dari Yahoo!. Sekarang domain WP.com juga sukses dibeli WordPress dari Yahoo!. Yahoo! lagi ‘cuci [...]

By: Dougal Campbell

Dougal Campbell — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:32:05 +0000

Overlap? I never thought so.

The Blo.gs service filled a role almost-but-not-quite-entirely-unlike an RSS aggregator. It accepted pings, then it provided two distinct sets services based on the update info: 1) User services for making a list of favorite sites, and seeing when they updated, plus blogroll widgets that you could embed in your own site. 2) XML data streams of updates (a virtual firehose of blog update times). This tied in to the whole feedmesh idea mentioned.

Ping-O-Matic is ping aggregation: one ping redistributed to multiple other services (including blo.gs). I think at one time we had a page that showed the most recent pings (but I think it was for internal/admin use only). Does the API for checking update times still work? I had always hoped it would be used to revive the blogroll ordering feature in WordPress.

I’m curious to see what new and interesting things might arise from the merging of the massive Ping-O-Matic update stream with the blo.gs service. Especially since Ping-O-Matic was originally my baby.

By: onmeco Blog » Blog Archive » WordPress-Schmiede Automattic übernimmt blo.gs -

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:08:09 +0000

[...] angestaubte Pingdienst blo.gs von Yahoo! wird derzeit auf die Automattic-Server umgezogen. Wie Matt Mullenweg in seinem Blog berichtet wird Automattic den Dienst zukünftig betreuen und weiterentwickeln. Ein weiterer Schritt auf dem [...]

By: What’s happening online | Welcome to vladgidea.com

What’s happening online | Welcome to vladgidea.com — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:36:15 +0000

[...] gave up blo.gs to Matt Mullenweg’s Automatic and it seems it’s beginning to shoutdown all unnecessary things (Geocities, [...]

By: Un Yahoo de criza | tazman`s blog

Un Yahoo de criza | tazman`s blog — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:52:13 +0000

[...] concentra pe cele 4 servicii care chiar le aduc trafic (ym, yahoo.com, flickr, delicios). Întâi arunc? blo.gs în curtea WordPress (care are un serviciu care face în mare acela?i lucru, pingomatic), apoi anun?? c? va închide [...]

By: Executor

Executor — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:37:10 +0000

WoW… COOL !!!

By: » Yahoo! Bids Adieu To 1997 MaisonBisson.com

» Yahoo! Bids Adieu To 1997 MaisonBisson.com — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:13:14 +0000

[...] has divested itself of Blo.gs and is shuttering GeoCities. Would this have happened in a good economy? No. Did it need to happen [...]

By: Yahoo se reorganizeaz? » zoso's blog

Yahoo se reorganizeaz? » zoso's blog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:25:22 +0000

[...] arunc? blo.gs în curtea WordPress (care are un serviciu care face în mare acela?i lucru, pingomatic), apoi anun?? c? va închide [...]

By: Automattic buys Blo.gs :: CMS Design Resource

Automattic buys Blo.gs :: CMS Design Resource — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:37:25 +0000

[...] a deal with Yahoo to buy its almost defunct blog updating service blo.gs. You can read about it on Matt’s blog, and Toni’s [...]

By: Automattic gets blog ping update service in its kitty! | Blog Design Studio

Automattic gets blog ping update service in its kitty! | Blog Design Studio — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:21:53 +0000

[...] announced this on his blog and interestingly wrote that Yahoo Inc. gave this property to them and didn’t mention that it [...]

By: Blog company Automattic buys Blo.gs » VentureBeat

Blog company Automattic buys Blo.gs » VentureBeat — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:05:15 +0000

[...] details of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Automattic founder Matt Mullenweg blogs about the deal, saying he was inspired by Blo.gs to produce the early WordPress feature that reordered your [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:53:34 +0000

There is a feature to reorder the blogroll by the update time? *__*