Comments on: Six Apart Deal With VideoEgg Marks the End of an Era http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/ Thu, 23 May 2013 12:26:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan : Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-514202 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:30:28 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-514202 [...] blogging pioneer Six Apart announced in September that it was being purchased by ad network VideoEgg and being folded into a new company, Say Media, the deal confirmed what many had been saying for [...]

]]> By: 3 Simple Ways to Drive Engagement » Blog | NetShelter Technology Media http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-287853 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:14:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-287853 [...] occur, there isn’t just a management shift, but a global acceleration marking the end of an era.  But it’s not just something that works for these guys.  It worked for me, too.  One of [...]

]]> By: Is Forbes Putting Its Editorial Soul on the Block?: Tech News « http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-285387 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:46:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-285387 [...] a new platform for their content, and companies like the new SAY Media — formed from the combination of advertising platform VideoEgg and blogging pioneer Six Apart — are pitching exactly that to major brands. There’s no question that the line between [...]

]]> By: William http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281588 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:59:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281588 No loss. Six Apart abandoned the folks who helped them start a long time ago, so this is just more of the same. My only regret is that I didn’t switch to WordPress sooner, or start with it.

]]> By: Dave Evans http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281580 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:39:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281580 A sad day indeed. I started out on Movable Type in 2002, spent many years on it, even built out a few blogs for 6A clients as a consultant. Then I moved to WordPress and never looked back. Now, older and tired of losing Friday night to plugin updates and hacked OpenX ad servers, I find myself looking at TypePad, Tumblr, Posterious and other platforms and you know what? None of them is near perfect, the plugin systems suck, security is a joke, SEO is practically non-existent and now we have all these themes with sub-themes and none of it is WYSIWYG enough for mere mortals. I’m mixing up hosted with standalone, but you get my drift.

Note to Say Media, create a TechMeme-type service, we need that more than another Weblogs Inc.

I wonder when HuffPo is going to open source their platform and tie contributors together? We tried at when I was on the Corante network (arguably pre-dating all other blog networks.)

Best of luck to the team, end of an era, off to do an update the largest blog network, Facebook.

]]> By: VideoEgg Acquires Six Apart; Combined Co. to Be Renamed Say Media - WebNewser http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281557 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:11:37 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281557 [...] told GigaOM in a phone interview: We’ve got north of 70 million techies, and that’s bigger than CNET, [...]

]]> By: Mi http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281308 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 05:35:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281308 I knew If I tweeted that no one will be able to copy.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281236 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 03:22:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281236 Tells you something. No one really cares about this two forgotten names. Man is the web 2.0 over or what.

]]> By: Todd Vernon http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281214 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:27:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281214 hmm, four hours…Two comments… hello, is this mic on….

]]> By: Reilly Brennan http://gigaom.com/2010/09/21/six-apart-deal-with-videoegg-marks-the-end-of-an-era/#comment-281213 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:26:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=158534#comment-281213 Given Posterous’s, well, ballsy marketing trying to get Tumblr users to come over to their platform, I can only imagine that they are cooking up a plan to do an easy migration for those users on typepad and movable type who are feeling unloved in the transition.

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