{"id":2870,"date":"2009-03-31T22:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T02:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2009-04-02T06:37:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T10:37:13","slug":"google-ventures-and-libology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/google-ventures-and-libology.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Ventures and Libology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ventures\/\"><strong>Google Ventures<\/strong><\/a> has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news:<\/p>\n<p>Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding.\u00a0 I have been in talks with someone from their Cambridge office over the past few weeks, just sent in the signed contract yesterday, and today the terms of the contract take effect.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest change you will notice is that they requested some design changes to this blog, mainly to make it easier to integrate with other Google services.\u00a0 (See below for screenshots)\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">If you are viewing this through a feed reader, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/\">main page of this blog<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/google-ventures-and-libology.html\">view this post<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another change you may notice is that I will stop being critical in any way, shape or form when referring to Google or any of their partners, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/us\/en\/default.htm\">OCLC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia_talk:AFMP\"><strong>one must always remember what today is<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2888\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/main-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2888\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2888\" title=\"main-screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/main-screenshot-284x300.png\" alt=\"Google Style Main Page\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/main-screenshot-284x300.png 284w, https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/main-screenshot.png 836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google Style Main Page<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2887\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/post-screenshot.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2887\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2887\" title=\"post-screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/post-screenshot-300x260.png\" alt=\"Post Googlized\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/post-screenshot-300x260.png 300w, https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/post-screenshot.png 821w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Post Googlized<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Google Ventures has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news: Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding.\u00a0 I have been in talks with someone &hellip; 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