Weblogs.com

Weblogs.com

Infobox_Company | company_name = VeriSign, Inc.
company_
company_type = Public (nasdaq|VRSN)
company_slogan = Where it all comes together.
foundation = 1995
location = Mountain View, California, USA
key_people = CEO: Stratton Sclavos
num_employees = 4,200
industry = Internet, Communications
revenue = $1.6 billion USD (2005)
net_income = $406 million USD (2005)
homepage = [http://www.verisign.com/ www.verisign.com]

Weblogs.com is a site created by UserLand Software and later maintained by Dave Winer, which provided a free ping-server used by most blog applications, as well as free hosting to many early bloggers. (Web-services like Feedster and Technorati monitor Weblogs.com for its list of the latest blog posts, generated in response to pings via XML-RPC.)

In mid-June 2004, Winer temporarily shut down free blog-hosting services there, without any notice, citing server and personal problems. Criticism from many bloggers was intense. Dave Winer, who had originally promised to get the blogs back up and running within a two-week period, was able to restore them much faster thanks to help from Rogers Cadenhead.

According to Wired Magazine [ [http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63953,00.html Weblogs.com Rises From the Flames ] ] , "What was decried as the death of a blog universe when Dave Winer shut down free blog host Weblogs.com turned out to be little more than a four-day server outage surrounded by a heck of a flame war."

In October, 2005, VeriSign bought the Weblogs.com ping-server from Winer, promising that services currently free there would still be free. The podcasting-related web site audio.weblogs.com was also included in the $2.3 million deal. [ [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1868270,00.asp VeriSign Acquires Dave Winers Weblogs.com ] ]

References

ee also

*UserLand
*VeriSign
*Rogers Cadenhead
*Dave Winer

News coverage and interviews

* [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1868270,00.asp EWeek story: VeriSign acquires Dave Winer's Weblogs.com]
* [http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/15/2354258.shtml?tid=126&tid=95| Slashdot Discussion On Weblogs.com Controversy]
* [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/17/2326207&tid=167&tid=108&tid=163| Slashdot follow-up, three days later]


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