So Technorati just received $7.6m more funding and everyone is wondering if they will use this new money for good or evil. Or rather, will they recapture the respect they seem to have lost from the blogosphere?
Chris Brogan doesn’t know what they will do with the money but he does know what he thinks they should do. He thinks they should definitely buy Twingly. Brogan sees Twingly as an early Technorati, a service that is constantly finding ways to interact with the ever changing blog world. Their widget showing which blogs are linking to your post is on my ‘Widgets to try’ list.
In our world of constant web service buy-ups, surely we all have our own take on what will be the next big acquisition. My personal favorite service that is ripe to be bought up is my good friends Diigo. I think they are poised to be purchased by Google. Google needs an answer to Yahoo’s Del.icio.us and Google Bookmarks just isn’t cutting it.
I can’t say enough good things about Diigo; whose live blogroll widget is always right here in my sidebar (under Tracksuit CEO is Reading)
So what is your take on this? What’s the next web app that will (or should) be snatched up? And who do you think will be facilitating this friendly/hostile takeover?
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1 Web 2.0 names that were stolen from my 4 year old // Jul 17, 2008 at 2:30 pm
[...] month I wrote about Technorati’s acquisition of Twingly. I went on to speculate that the next Google acquisition would be Diigo. Well that may still [...]
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