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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

    April 19th, 2008 at 2:59 am

    WordPress - at least they should.

  2. elvirs

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:00 am

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

  3. noinput

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:05 am

    skype? i hear it might be up for grabs

  4. Scabr

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Drupal

  5. dood

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    livejournal

  6. maurycy

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:08 am

    Adaptive Path

  7. Vinayak

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:11 am

    Facebook

  8. V

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:12 am

    pbwiki

  9. Shafqat

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    disqus?

  10. Philip

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:20 am

    techcrunch?

  11. Stefanie

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    Live Journal

  12. Jon

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    BlogFriends for inclusion into BlogIt.

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

  13. Robin Wauters

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    Technorati

  14. Dog

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    definitely Yahoo

  15. Cristi

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:23 am

    Twitter?

  16. justinkadima

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:23 am

    b5media

  17. Igor The Troll

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:23 am

    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

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:24 am

    when do i get my ipod???

  19. lawrence

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:25 am

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

  20. Div

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:27 am

    Automattic to be more correct??

  21. Prashant

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:29 am

    tumblr ??

  22. Tim

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:36 am

    ustream.tv

  23. Josh

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:37 am

    Google

  24. AMAR BHAGAT

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:38 am

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

  25. Aaron Schon

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:39 am

    digg.com

  26. 113.com

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:39 am

    Technorati

  27. Alek

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:41 am

    Justin.TV?

  28. Lippe

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:43 am

    blogger.com

  29. Michael Pinto

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:44 am

    37signals

  30. Trick

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:46 am

    LiveJournal again! nah, just kidding.

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

  31. Matt

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:47 am

    stumble!

  32. mac_fiend

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:47 am

    Some howto network like tech-recipes is the rumor.

  33. jack

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:48 am

    digg.com!

  34. mike

    April 19th, 2008 at 3:54 am

    either Facebook or Yahoo.

  35. Alex

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:00 am

    I go for…..Ning?

  36. Juhani Polkko

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:01 am

    Technorati

  37. Ghaus

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:01 am

    Microsoft ??? lol

  38. Ghaus

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:02 am

    Google, Yahoo and Microsoft ! All three :P hahaha

  39. John

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:05 am

    I think twitter

  40. Chris Eigner

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:09 am

    xanga

  41. Peter

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:12 am

    U.S. Government

  42. daniel

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:39 am

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

  43. Chris S

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:42 am

    Digg or Plaxo

  44. Fred

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:43 am

    seesmic?

  45. Tim-TechFruit

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:47 am

    Piknik for image editing within posts

  46. Matt

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:49 am

    WetPaint or Circuit City

  47. doredore

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    technorati

  48. ronbailey

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Qik

  49. Vinod Chandramouli

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:53 am

    Livejournal

  50. Paul Grous

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:54 am

    Twitterrific / IconFactory

  51. Luca Mearelli

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:54 am

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

  52. Paul Grous

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:56 am

    Snitter

  53. Paul Grous

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:57 am

    Twitter

  54. Darren

    April 19th, 2008 at 4:58 am

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

  55. Adam

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:00 am

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

  56. faz

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:01 am

    wikihow

  57. thom_

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:02 am

    Hello,

    My pronostic : Netvibes.

    Bye,
    Thom_

  58. Jazza

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:02 am

    vimeo

  59. Greg

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:07 am

    Pownce

  60. Duncan Riley

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:08 am

    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

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:08 am

    they acquired Qik.com

  62. daniel podaru

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:11 am

    or maybe friendfeed.com

  63. Andrew

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:11 am

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

  64. Ouark

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:12 am

    Skyrock Blog

  65. ludovic

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:12 am

    Blogit

  66. DF

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:15 am

    gawker media

  67. milander

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:16 am

    Movable type :P

  68. Yohann

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:17 am

    Seesmic ?

  69. Greg

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:20 am

    Dailymotion, Newsgator, Zooomr, Soocial ?

  70. dualsub2006

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:24 am

    Plaxo

  71. Dougal

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:26 am

    Me

  72. ian

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    vbulletin.com

  73. philippe

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:30 am

    Netvibes ?

  74. Tomer Cohen

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:32 am

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

  75. philippe

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:32 am

    Last.fm

  76. Yakov

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:34 am

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

  77. Mat

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:36 am

    Linked In ? Ziki ? FriendFeed ?

  78. maxskybarger

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:39 am

    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

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am

    crunch network

  80. SC

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am

    meeeebo

  81. Dominic Hodgson

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:41 am

    Pligg

  82. yarivh

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:43 am

    5min or metacafe.

  83. Mohamed.E

    April 19th, 2008 at 5:52 am

    Well …. i think they will aquire twitter ;)

  84. Ian Timothy