Google has bought Pyra Labs, the company behind the Blogger weblog publishing tool, it emerged last night. Appropriately, the story was broken in a weblog maintained by tech journalist and columnist Dan Gillmor, which previews a story that will run in today’s San Jose Mercury News.
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Paolo: “Ok, you’ve heard the news by now: Weblogs are going Googling.”
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Russ: “Yep. Wow… that’s exciting.”
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Dave Winer: “Google News query for Pyra.”
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Phillip: “I don’t usually repost things from Slashdot, but this sort of thing doesn’t happen every day”
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Dave Johnson: “Holy crap is right.”
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Jeremy Zawodny: “Cool. Go Google!”
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Rajesh Jain: “Google enters the world of blogs.”
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Evan: “Note to self: When you get off this panel, you should probably comment on this.”