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AOL acquires gdgt.com
- simonswords82 14y agoI would totally sell to AOL if they offered a price I would sell at, but I wouldn't be able to avoid the nagging feeling that AOL don't exactly have a successful history when it comes to purchasing smaller companies.
- MatthewPhillips 14y agoOr big companies, for that matter.
- BlackNapoleon 14y agoWhat does AOL do besides cull ad money for websites it owns while it rests on the laurels of not doing anything?
- shimon_e 14y agoSo Ryan Block leads engadget after it is sold to AOL. Then starts gdgt and sells it to AOL. What's next?
- michael_h 14y agoObvious: he'll start gt and sell it to AOL.
- geetee 14y agoCan I start spending the money early?
- IheartApplesDix 14y agoSure, just borrow against your future Kickstarter campaign.
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- kmfrk 14y agoIt was a shame gdgt probably never caught on as much as it could have. They consistently had the best live coverage of events, which was the only time I visited their site, unfortunately.
- beaumartinez 14y agoI didn't even know they covered events—I go there simply for quick product reviews
- jonursenbach 14y agoYeah we only covered the occasional Apple event over at our live blog: http://live.gdgt.com http://live.gdgt.com
- kmfrk 14y agoBut you killed it every time - especially the times where The Verge and Engadget used liveblogging platforms that crapped out on them. :) Thanks for your coverage. Hope I won't have to follow my Apple keynotes without them. Then again, it looks like Apple are moving towards livestreaming them, which would require blogs to adjust the way they liveblog the events. What are you guys going to do at this point? We're in short supply of good tech writing.
- jonursenbach 14y agoThanks! It's still really early, so I'm not really sure what's going on and if Ryan still wants to do them or not. I don't know about any other sites that run liveblogs, but the residual traffic never really made up for the massive amount of engineering and ops work that needs to go into the events so I'm not sure. They sure are a hell of a lot of fun though.
- smackfu 14y agoYeah, it was odd. They did great news coverage of live events... it did a good job of driving me to their site to look for news coverage. But the site has no other news coverage.
- JesseObrien 14y agoIs this going to be another case of getting bought by AOL and then buying back from them after a while? http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/about-me-buys-itself-back-from-aol/ http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/about-me-buys-itsel...
- mgarfias 14y agoI wish we'd been able to do that with sphere. Instead it was sold to outbrain, and our tech was way better.
- dusing 14y agoThis all seems so Incestual.
- benologist 14y agoContent farm buys new field. News at 11. AOL rewording at 11:05.
- druiid 14y agoI have a good friend whom works there. I'm crossing my fingers this turns out well for all concerned and doesn't end up just being another dump-and-run type buyout.
- jordan_clark 14y agoCongratulations to Ryan and Peter. This was their plan all along and hopefully they made a lot of money.
- randall 14y agoMan. I bet we're about to see a competitive battle never known in the gadget blogs before. Engadget vs Gizmodo was crazy, now Engadget / aol vs The Verge / vox is about to get insane. The good news? Publishing should evolve faster because all the people at both sites are intensely great people.
- chris_wot 14y agoIt was nice knowing gdgt. My condolences.