<s>
Weblogs.com	B-Protocol
is	O
a	O
website	O
created	O
by	O
UserLand	O
Software	O
and	O
later	O
maintained	O
by	O
Dave	O
Winer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
launched	O
in	O
late	O
1999	O
as	O
a	O
free	O
,	O
registration-based	O
web	B-Application
crawler	I-Application
monitoring	O
weblogs	O
,	O
was	O
converted	O
into	O
a	O
ping-server	O
in	O
October	O
2001	O
,	O
and	O
came	O
to	O
be	O
used	O
by	O
most	O
blog	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Web-services	O
like	O
Feedster	O
and	O
Technorati	B-Application
monitor	O
Weblogs.com	B-Protocol
for	O
its	O
list	O
of	O
the	O
latest	O
blog	O
posts	O
,	O
generated	O
in	O
response	O
to	O
pings	O
via	O
XML-RPC	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Wired	O
Magazine	O
,	O
"	O
What	O
was	O
decried	O
as	O
the	O
death	O
of	O
a	O
blog	O
universe	O
when	O
Dave	O
Winer	O
shut	O
down	O
free	O
blog	O
host	O
Weblogs.com	B-Protocol
turned	O
out	O
to	O
be	O
little	O
more	O
than	O
a	O
four-day	O
server	O
outage	O
surrounded	O
by	O
a	O
heck	O
of	O
a	O
flame	O
war.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
October	O
,	O
2005	O
,	O
VeriSign	B-Application
bought	O
the	O
Weblogs.com	B-Protocol
ping-server	O
from	O
Winer	O
,	O
promising	O
that	O
services	O
currently	O
free	O
there	O
would	O
still	O
be	O
free	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
podcasting-related	O
web	O
site	O
audio.weblogs.com	O
was	O
also	O
included	O
in	O
the	O
$2.3	O
million	O
deal	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
May	O
2009	O
Weblogs.com	B-Protocol
was	O
sold	O
to	O
a	O
private	O
investor	O
group	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
deal	O
that	O
saw	O
Moreover	O
Technologies	O
divested	O
from	O
VeriSign	B-Application
.	O
</s>
