]
] Dan Gillmor gets the scoop: %u201CGoogle, which
] runs the Web%u2019s premier search site, has purchased
] Pyra Labs, a San Francisco company that created some of
] the earliest technology for writing weblogs, the
] increasingly popular personal and opinion journals.%u201D
]
]
] The announcement was made at Saturday night%u2019s
] %u201DLive from the Blogosphere%u201D event -a fitting
] name given that the news really did break live from the
] blogosphere (as described by Tony Pierce) with Pyra Labs
] co-founder and (now ex-) CEO, Evan Williams, displaying
] the news in a blog post to a live audience before making
] the announcement himself.