Google buys Pyra, the makers of Blogger

(my Tuesday, February 18, 2003 blog post)

This was announced on 15-Feb-2003. Should be interesting. Tripod announced blogging capabilities for their services in the past couple months, and AOL is suppose to provide blogging features to their subscribers this spring. Not sure about Yahoo! and blogging. This is a big move by Google and a big move for the personal publishing world.

Here's the news story.

Here's Evan's take
http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000802.shtml

MetaFilter thread
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/23612

Slashdot thread
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/16/0728230.shtml?tid=187%22