AOL Gobbles up TechCrunch

With all this partnership and acquisition news banging around the interwebs it’s starting to feel like watching the tectonic plates shifting around, but this time to re-form Pangea.  Too nerdy of a reference for you? Pangea was the super continent that existed millions and billions of years ago, that eventually shifted and broke up to form the continents as we know them today…

Today AOL announced that they’ve purchased the influential web startup reporting technology blog TechCrunch for some $30Million – increasing their online portfolio and reach.  Microsoft teaming up with WordPress, running Yahoo’s search… It will be interesting to see where all these puzzle piece land when the next Age of the Internet begins.

Source: WSJ

Tags: AOL, tech, TechCrunch, web 2.0
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So you think you can blog?

Ok, so what are you going to use? Blogger? TypePad? WordPress? Tumblr??

TechSavyAgent gives a nice Top 5 of available popular blog platforms for the Real Estate folks, which you can read here on their Tech Savvy blog.

Tags: blogging, tech, tech savvy, web 2.0
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Walk Score – more localized search goodness

Great find by the good folks over at AgentGenius!  Walk Score, rates, on a scale of 0 -100, your neighborhood based on how many things (bars, restaurants, grocery stores, banks, etc) are within walking distance of your house/office/street corner. This is great for people moving to neighborhoods they’ve never been to, or even to discover new things around the corner from you!

Source: AGENTGENIUS & WALKSCORE

Tags: agent genius, local search, tech, web 2.0
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