Google bought out Pyra
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Google bought out Pyra
This morning I woke up and the first thing I did was walk over to my computer to see what was new on the Internet. It seems that there is always something going on but every once in awhile it’s something big. The word around the blogosphere was Google’s recent purchase of Pyra. News of this has been flying around the Internet every sense it was annouced to the public last night in a panel discussion.For those of you that might not be familiar with this - Pyra is the company that made Blogger.com. Blogger is a tool used for self-publication on the Internet. It helps people create sites such as mine without having to know what I know. I’ve used it for awhile along with close to 1.1 million other people all over the globe.
Dan Gillmor, gave the blog community the suprizing news a day before it was printed in the San Jose Mercury News. He simply wanted to get the word out.
So what does this mean to all of us? Google has been very picky with the technology they invest in. Once they do go forward, it’s amazing and the results of their ideas and hard work have changed the way we do business today.
Also for the first time publicly (during the same panel discussion that announced earlier) a demo of Audblog was also announced.
… a new service that allows you to “call in” a post to your weblog via mobile phone. Your speech, or the ambient sounds around you, are recorded and transmitted to your blog by way of your cellphone. Like magic, the demo is delightfully simple and actually works.This is amazingly familiar with Google’s Voice Searching service. You can simply search by voice with a simple telephone call to Google.
Anyways - this is a big deal and I’m interested to see what happens. Many people think blogs from blogger.com will get higher rankings in Google’s searches. I don’t think Google would be dumb enough to do that. Either way - I’m stuck reading every single article being written about this. Not from any newspaper but from people online. Newspapers have to wait to print their stuff until production time. Meanwhile hundreds of websites have already considered this old news by the time they actually print something.
