Matt Trentini just sent me an email with the news. Interesting! The speculation is that Jason and Brian sold for between a USD $20 - 35 million earn out. For a two-year old business. Congrats to them both!
Owner and Managing Director of The Podcast Network
It will be interesting to see how a) they want to include that into their company and b) how the readership feels about this (a bit like Flickr / Yahoo) and c) if the current bloggers will stay on board once they do blog for AOL.
I do see the possibility of even better advertisement deals for the site if they leave the blogs kind of alone, but I am not sure if everybody will be really happy with this.
For me, I don't care that much, unless the content changes or thy suddenly try to start changing the feeds like to teasers instead of posts. In this case, I will look for better sources.
Also it would be intersting in the 'follow the money' theory' if they would try to bring in their companies connection to be promoted more.
New conspiracies, new conspiracies! :))
Posted by: Nicole Simon | Thursday, October 06, 2005 at 06:36 PM