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Joyent Acquires TextDrive

Big news (to me at least) in the industry today — our friends at TextDrive were just acquired by my favorite startup, Joyent. Joyent has some really cool web-based collaborative software that currently runs on an all-in-one device you pop into your company’s network infrastructure. Now that Joyent acquired TextDrive, a web hosting company, I’m sure this will accelerate the hosted versions of their wonderful collaborative apps. This also means that Dean Allen and John Gruber are joining forces, which means that some really hot shit is probably afoot.

Lots of congrats to everyone involved, I can’t wait to see where this leads.

Thanks for the tip, Niall!

Put The Pajamas Back On, Your Birthday Suit Is Showing

Roger Simon, in his excruciatingly finite wisdom, decides to change Open Source Media back to Pajamas Media due to the fact he and his entire company committed faux pas after faux pas after they launched. Good thing they paid a pretty penny for the three-character domain name and branding which is now all out the window and dead on the sidewalk.

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Open Source Media CEO Screwed Business Partner?

To be honest with all of you, I have never, ever seen a business go from launch to meltdown as quickly as Open Source Media appears to be. Since they launched, I have only seen ONE positive analysis of their business and that came from seattlepi.com where it was simply reporting the company’s launch news in an unbiased manner. Besides that, everything else I’ve read (that wasn’t written by an OSMer) has been negative and this next link takes the damn cake.

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Open Source Media Launches To Negative Press

Pajamas Media finally took the sheet off their new name this week and became Open Source Media, which they describe as “a new blogging venture designed to bring together the internet’s brightest minds and most compelling content into a single source that will, in turn, complement and re-define journalism in the 21st century.” Pretty lofty goals I’d say. The weblog world is buzzing with thoughts about this new venture, and unfortunately for the company’s founders and investors, it’s mostly negative.

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9rules Submission: 3 Hours Left!!!

I honestly can’t tell you how amazing it is to see how many people want to be part of 9rules. On November 7th, Paul wrote an entry that announced our third round of submissions, and it’s received over 70 comments and trackbacks so far.

Update! Round 3 is all over, and we STOMPED our previous rounds by having more than 500 people submit their sites! Amazing! Paul has more »

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