Shanti’s Dispatches

Lots of big Web 2.0 M&A news these last few days.
SiliconBeat: Confirmed: Verisign buys Weblogs.com

We’re getting confirmation that the rumors about Verisign buying Dave Winer’s Weblogs.com are true. The price is $2 million. What Verisign wants with Weblogs is another matter. Weblogs was one of the first, if not the first, centralized ping servers that blogs could use to alert the world to new content.

We had a little issue with our lighttpd.conf file over on our Rails server the last few days.

QuickStart Rails - the example application and getting started guide are back online.

Jon Wood emailed me the other day to say that he used QuickStart Rails to get started with a new Ruby on Rails project of his.

The site is now live at www.thinthoughts.org. Cool!