For the past few days, off and on, I've been working to clean up my bookmarks in anticipation of uploading them all to my del.icio.us account using whatever version of Safarilicious is available at trigger time. In anticipation of this shift for my 1600 or so bookmarks, I've been using Bookdog to organize, find duplicates, and verify the remaining bookmarks. It's been a trip though various histories and pasts.

At one point in the past one of my hats was competitive and market analysis of the chat and collaboration space. In doing so I would bookmark various vendors of interest, either as partners or as threats. At some point, I bookmarked the website of United Messaging who, if I recall correctly, provided some services for enterprise and wireless data and messaging.

When Bookdog visited United Messaging's website, it flagged it as a 302 that was likely a 301. For in August 2002 United Messaging was indeed purchased by a company in the same general market space, Agilera. Who just 6 months later were purchased by BlueStar Solutions, who.... don't respond to pings. But they did have a online marketing campaign that reduced their costs of customer acquisition... and were then purchased by Affiliated Computer Systems in August 2004.

All this from a bookmark and some headers, indeed.

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Posted by esinclai at December 27, 2005 06:22 PM |