Google Acquires Pyra (web log software developer)
[Some interesting comments here… have to go back and look over this article more carefully. -Thomas]
http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=A220_0_1_0_C
The Annotated Web
The Google acquisition of Pyra—makers of the most widely-used weblog platform, Blogger—left those unacquainted with weblogs scratching their heads. When weblogs first appeared a few years ago they seemed like just another method for building vanity websites. But the technology and social norms that have grown out of these simple publishing tools have changed dramatically. Real people are now engaged in building the Web, not just consuming it, creating a larger opportunity for Google than search alone.
A weblog is the simplest way to produce a website—for publishing, communication and collaboration—through standards-based structured data exchange in a spam-free medium. These simple tools with simple rules yield complex results. Google is tapping into a new form of social infrastructure, and perhaps returning to its roots.
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