April 19, 2008

Who Did Six Apart Acquire?

Michael Arrington

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six-aprt-logo.pngSan Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has made a significant acquisition, we heard today from someone with knowledge of the deal. “Significant” in the sense of a possible strategic shift for the company, if not in terms of deal size. It will be announced in the next few days.

Who did they acquire? Put your best guess in the comments. First comment that is correct gets a 2 GB iPod shuffle with “I Love TechCrunch” engraved on the back.

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  1. Weltentummler

    WordPress - at least they should.

  2. elvirs

    Must have aqcuired some blog tool, or large blog network to slap Automattic on the face:)

  3. noinput

    skype? i hear it might be up for grabs

  4. Scabr

    Drupal

  5. dood

    livejournal

  6. maurycy

    Adaptive Path

  7. Vinayak

    Facebook

  8. V

    pbwiki

  9. Shafqat

    disqus?

  10. Philip

    techcrunch?

  11. Stefanie

    Live Journal

  12. Jon

    BlogFriends for inclusion into BlogIt.

    Jon
    http://woodmarvels.com - Create Unique Memories

  13. Robin Wauters

    Technorati

  14. Dog

    definitely Yahoo

  15. Cristi

    Twitter?

  16. justinkadima

    b5media

  17. Igor The Troll

    Wikipedia is going on the block! Jimbo needs funds. He is shopping for a new country, but short some cash. I think it is a tug war between Amazons for the women and France to escape the IRS. ;-)

  18. Dog

    when do i get my ipod???

  19. lawrence

    my crystal ball is telling me they acquired something blogging-related, that will further their cause

  20. Div

    Automattic to be more correct??

  21. Prashant

    tumblr ??

  22. Tim

    ustream.tv

  23. Josh

    Google

  24. AMAR BHAGAT

    hi,friends urs site well maintain and lots of informantion on it and nice site.well done

  25. Aaron Schon

    digg.com

  26. 113.com

    Technorati

  27. Alek

    Justin.TV?

  28. Lippe

    blogger.com

  29. Michael Pinto

    37signals

  30. Trick

    LiveJournal again! nah, just kidding.

    Pownce maybe? Seems like it could mash with their tools…

  31. Matt

    stumble!

  32. mac_fiend

    Some howto network like tech-recipes is the rumor.

  33. jack

    digg.com!

  34. mike

    either Facebook or Yahoo.

  35. Alex

    I go for…..Ning?

  36. Juhani Polkko

    Technorati

  37. Ghaus

    Microsoft ??? lol

  38. Ghaus

    Google, Yahoo and Microsoft ! All three :P hahaha

  39. John

    I think twitter

  40. Chris Eigner

    xanga

  41. Peter

    U.S. Government

  42. daniel

    google says defensio or live journal ;)
    the logic says twitter but it’s too big for them?

  43. Chris S

    Digg or Plaxo

  44. Fred

    seesmic?

  45. Tim-TechFruit

    Piknik for image editing within posts

  46. Matt

    WetPaint or Circuit City

  47. doredore

    technorati

  48. ronbailey

    Qik

  49. Vinod Chandramouli

    Livejournal

  50. Paul Grous

    Twitterrific / IconFactory

  51. Luca Mearelli

    I’d say popurls or socialtext (or something in the enterprise 2.0 space) :)

  52. Paul Grous

    Snitter

  53. Paul Grous

    Twitter

  54. Darren

    mixx.com or one of the many ad networks out there.

  55. Adam

    To all the people saying they acquired LiveJournal… Six Apart just SOLD LiveJournal to the Russians.

  56. faz

    wikihow

  57. thom_

    Hello,

    My pronostic : Netvibes.

    Bye,
    Thom_

  58. Jazza

    vimeo

  59. Greg

    Pownce

  60. Duncan Riley

    Im betting one of the live streaming services. Not Ustream, they just closed a round. Stickam is a bit risky content wise although so was LJ. I’m going to bet on Justin.tv, Mogulus or Kyte. Either one would fit nicely next to typepad in the hosting side of the business. What ever it is, it has to be strong IP: it’s what SA is good at selling.

  61. daniel podaru

    they acquired Qik.com

  62. daniel podaru

    or maybe friendfeed.com

  63. Andrew

    It’ll be something social network-y, rather than bloggy.

  64. Ouark

    Skyrock Blog

  65. ludovic

    Blogit

  66. DF

    gawker media

  67. milander

    Movable type :P

  68. Yohann

    Seesmic ?

  69. Greg

    Dailymotion, Newsgator, Zooomr, Soocial ?

  70. dualsub2006

    Plaxo

  71. Dougal

    Me

  72. ian

    vbulletin.com

  73. philippe

    Netvibes ?

  74. Tomer Cohen

    I put my money on Yahoo, since they are the only one which has no blogging platform at all.

  75. philippe

    Last.fm

  76. Yakov

    keep the award for the kids. the Russians acquired them!

  77. Mat

    Linked In ? Ziki ? FriendFeed ?

  78. maxskybarger

    This late in the game it is hard to come up with an original answer, so I am going to go with Flock.

  79. john

    crunch network

  80. SC

    meeeebo

  81. Dominic Hodgson

    Pligg

  82. yarivh

    5min or metacafe.

  83. Mohamed.E

    Well …. i think they will aquire twitter ;)

  84. Ian Timothy