Technorati buys blogging community Blogcritics.org
August 27th, 2008Posted by Laura Oliver in Social media and blogging
Blog search website Technorati has acquired online magazine and blogging community site Blogcritics.org.
Bloggers publish their posts on Blogcritics, which acts as a source of news and reviews ‘covering all aspects of contemporary culture and society’, to gain wider exposure, an introduction to the site explains.
According to a press release, Technorati will seek to help bloggers on Blogcritics monetise their content.
“As part of Technorati Media, we’ll be able to grow the community and further improve our platform to attract new audiences. Technorati’s mission to help bloggers and people who read blogs is the ideal complement for us,” said Eric Olsen, founder of Blogcritics, in the release.
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August 29th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Sounds like a great merger and congrats to Blogcritics. I’m sure this is larger then what they expected when they started it!
August 29th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
[...] Community BlogCritics sold to Technorati I’m sure this was a BIG $$$ deal. Congrats to Eric! Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:40 pm
It is a good acquisition but it would be better if they create there own forum.