Ev "Blogger Co-Founder" Williams has blogged some of his impressions of the sale of his company to Google. Interesting to hear that this will be Ev's first "real job":
I'm going to work at Google, naturally, which is an awesome opportunity in itself. To go there with the rest of my team (Jason, Jason, Jason, Rudy, and Steve), and to continue working on Blogger, but to have access to these amazing resources (not just money, and servers, and bandwidth, and traffic, and the index, but incredible brains) is a dream scenario.
For Blogger, and for Blogger users (and for the blogging world in general–Blogger-using or not–because I know that's a concern), it's going to mean great things, I believe. We're going to be mapping out more clearly what that means and talking about it soon. We don't mean to be mysterious about that. We just haven't had time to put it all together yet.
From the personal perspective, my whole life is different. For starters, while I'm working on roughly the same thing, I now have a boss (or two)–something I've rarely had in my life. I'm working in a company of 600 (and growing) instead of six (the largest previous was O'Reilly at 150 or so, but that was brief). I'm commuting to another town for work, which I've never done. (I bought a car yesterday–something I haven't had in three years.) And that's just the tangible stuff. Well, part of the tangible stuff.
