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Google gets serious about blogging, Automattic the target?

Started by Duncan Riley · 9 months ago

News broke earlier today that Google has acquired Korean blogging outfit TNC, the company behind the TextCube blogging service.
TNC founder Chang Kim doesn’t disclose the full details of the sale, but speculates that the acquisition may have been motivated by Google’s d ... Continue reading »

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  • This does demonstrate where the market is going and it is not all Googles way.
  • Interesting. My question is -- how is Google competing with Automattic (a company who created a GPL'ed blogging platform) by buying Needlworks/TNF (a company who has also created a GPL'ed blogging platform)?

    My Korean is non-existing but I downloaded the source of Textcube and had a look at its PHP code, and they look nice. In fact it already has English as a supported language (although the messages in code are mostly in Korean).

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