Good news for the whole LibraryThing community
Update: THIS IS NOT TRUE! It is an April Fool's joke. I tried to pick the most obnoxious acquisition possible and go over the top in the announcement, but I think I still caused a few heart attacks. Sorry!
We're proud to announce that LibraryThing has joined the Wal-Mart family. Together we'll continue to improve how people catalog and share their books over the internet. In joining with Wal-Mart, LibraryThing will be expanding its horizons, allowing cataloging of CDs, DVDs and as well as a wide variety of other consumer products and appliances.We'd like to thank everyone who has helped us, our advisors, our formerly unionized employees, and particularly our 30,000 users. We still want your feedback, and we look forward to bringing you exciting new features with fewer bugs. One thing's for sure, we won't be worried about buying another server!
We understand that some LibraryThing users may have questions about this historic change. How can I know my data will be safe? Will LibraryThing lose its homey, altruistic feel? Will I be able to catalog my firearms? How much Ol' Roy can Axel eat anyway? Will Liam's first word be "rollback"? Those are all good questions.
Thank you for your support!
Tim Spalding
President, LibraryThing
posted by Tim at 9:55 PM
21 Comments:
Tim "Millionaire" Spalding,
What about the Lifetime memberships? Will they still be honored?
That WalMart?? Color me dubious, Mr. Spalding. I'm glad that you are set for life, but I feel like I've just been sold up the river. I still love the techno-wonder that is LibraryThing but I imagine its most golden days are past.
I hope I'll be saying "Got me!" tomorrow.
Check the date, eh? ;)
Language. Are you kidding? Not only that, but every item you buy at Walmart stores is added too. In fact, we've been capturing this data for months now, just because we knew you'd want us to!
Well my underlying sentiment remains. LT is so faboo that you deserve any reward that it may bring you. But never forget the little people.
I'll probably have to take this down in an hour or two, once more people think it's real.*
Can anyone think of a better corporation? Haliburton seems too obvious. It's too bad Enron is no more; I could use the word "synergy" in the announcement.
*Language. Do you remember when one of the Boston TV stations announced, on April fools, that the Blue Hills were exploding, and showed stock footage of Kilauea? Oh, bad move that.
There weren't any smaller arms dealers interested then Tim?
:)
Tim, you're right: it's hard to do better, for a fictitious merging. :) For half a minute I had a very puzzled and unhappy look on my face. :) :) :)
It's the second of April here so I was confused for a moment...
Tim ...
I'm glad yours came late in the day!
This morning, I was pointing another L.T. user to OpenOffice.org (to get a free equivalent to Excel to work with the L.T. CSV export file), and THEY had a big "announcement" up about having been acquired by Microsoft. Needless to say, I had to preface my note with "just ignore what their front page says today"!
- BTRIPP
Ha. That's excellent. I should have thought of them. Better than Enron...
I ought to strangle you. lol You really had me convinced. Man, I hope you never sell out to Wal-mart or some other similar entity, though I LT does deserve corporate backing. Good joke!
Your a bad man! NO SOUP FOR YOU!
If you ever go corporate we'er all dead in the water. Like carp, floating in a smelly green soup.
And here I thought that you had been bought by Yahoo (already) ;)
Could be worse. Could'a'been NOTIS.
(Sorry - library joke, and an old one at that.)
Just as obnoxius would have been Worldcom or Nortel! Wallyworld was pretty depressing though.
If it were true, I was going to use all my skills from my previus military training and hunt you down!;-)
No worries Tim, I was well aware of what the date was ... not to mention that from what we know of you, I suspect you'd be one of the last people on the planet to deal with Wal-Mart ;-)
Good one!
Man, that was hilarious!!!!
I had to pause, then it was funny.
You might want to take that down. As a brand new discover of librarything and not paying attention to the dates I was about to close my account.
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