AOL buys Blogsmith – the platform behind Weblogs, Inc.

Matt Craven

Nov. 12, 2006
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AOL has purchased Blogsmith, another Jason Calacanis & Brian Alvey company. Blogsmith is the power behind the Weblogs, Inc. blog network – currently coded in PHP/MySQL.

Alvey writes:

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.
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I hope that clears up all of the questions surrounding AOL’s acquisition of Blogsmith and the product’s history.

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Matt Craven

Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a consulting practice located in Woodbury, Minnesota. Matt's presently looking for new blogging gigs. Ping him at matt (at) bryghtpath dot com. You can follow him on Twitter.