Tuesday, July 08, 2003

Userland Reading Don Park... Ground is shaking in UserLand. John Robb's abrupt departure and blog disappearance smells bad. Dave is hinting at a bigger change that should be "net-net good news for Manila and Radio users and for the weblog community." While going open source is a possibility, "We weren't ready to announce, John surprised us" seems to point to a buyout. My list of suspects with recent news about AOL's entry into BlogLand are: Yahoo Adobe Symantec Macromedia Intriguing drama unfolding... [Don Park's Blog] and this ...We're going to try to do something fun, unique, and powerful with UserLand's position in the weblog and content tools market, and we're going to try to include the community in the business, i.e. people will make money....That means there's room for a CEO here, and a management team; it also means it's possible that UserLand will be acquired. But we will only do it if it means continuity and growth for UserLand's customers. One thing hasn't changed, the first two syllables of the company's name. That's been constant through all the changes of the last fifteen years. [Scripting News] I'd like to add Apple to Don's list. Manilla would be a great web-based iApp and an easy complement to their education market. 7:29:56 AM    comments []