David Jackson has written a compelling argument for Yahoo! buying Six Apart, the makers of Movable (one 'E') Type and TypePad (and now the new owners of LiveJournal). As I've written here before I'm surprised that many of the blog plays haven't been snapped up already. I could see the likes of Bloglines, del.icio.us, Technorati, etc. being taken out by a Microsoft, Google, Yahoo or (gaps!) even AOL. I never considered Six Apart as a target but as Dave clearly shows there's good reason to buy them. I could see Google snagging them as a way to protect all those blog pages on Six Apart based blogs that are already part of Google's AdSense program (like my blog). It sure seems like a question of 'when' and not 'if' these guys will be acquired. Too bad none of them are public companies so we could join in on the fun.
On a related note, there's a bit of a fire storm over a post made by Martin Schwimmer at his Trademark Blog. In that post he tells why he asked BlogLines to remove his site from their service. I wrote my reaction to Martin's post on my other blog -- "Some People Just don't Understand RSS"
P.S. This week's Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Anita Campbell's Small Business Blog.
