Okay, I know that BlogLines being bought is a big deal.
I’ve been an avid BlogLines user and evangelist for more than a year. It’s a great service. But, really, it’s still just an aggregator. The only thing I care about is that they don’t pull a BlogRolling and screw the service up.
I’m tired of having services I rely on go to pot when they get bought up. I understand that the staff and owners get big paychecks and so have problems staying motivated. But, if you’re going to pay millions of dollars for software, why not hire a few consultants from your user base to make sure everything stays on track? Grab 3. Pay them each 500$/day for 3 months. And just write it off as a cost of the acquisition.
I mean, really. Can’t anyone actually do a merger that works besides Google and Microsoft?
February 7th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Hah, you wish consultants got only $500/day… it’d be safer to say $500/hour. Needless to say, I’m looking to get into consulting.
February 7th, 2005 at 1:26 pm
“User consultants” can’t really be picky about what they get
February 7th, 2005 at 3:04 pm
Your right – In fact there is evidence on that. Mckinsey consultants mad a report on exact that topic years ago – most merges fail…….
Best Regards
Hans Henrik
February 7th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
Bloggers and secrets.
Frank Barnako at MarketWatch says that bloggers won’t keep a secret, after the poorly kept secret that Ask Jeeves was buying Bloglines, something I believe that I actually saw a million times. My favorites were Russ Beattie’s “don’t f*** it…
February 10th, 2005 at 6:11 pm
Cisco is great at buying up companies and making money off of them. Linksys probably is the biggest example (that I know of).