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i was just about to go home, and then....!
no way! no WAY! you are making that UP! get OUT of here! you're KIDDING! nuh-uh! nuh-UH! google really bought pyra labs (makers of our friend blogger)? evhead mentions it on his blog but the announcement's not on blogger as far as i can tell.
i'm trying hard not to have an blindingly rapturous reaction (google good, four-legs bad!). new term: bloogle. i think it's interesting that both companies have become synonyms for the services they offer. does that mean we'll now get stories about how blogger is changing society, when the story is actually talking about how blogging is changing society? (this is my pet peeve about google stories.) and let me take this moment to again reiterate that if mac.com offered a blogging service, i would actually pay for their whole "digital life" package. i certainly can't afford to pay for both blogger & mac.com.
ev's post, more than any other "i'm moving to google!" post i've seen, really makes me think that working for google is what working for microsoft once was: the excitment, the cachet, the buying out of little companies to build a sudden empire......