Via Just-Ask-Kim.com              Kimberly Castleberry

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There has been a truly remarkable number of web properties (sites, tools, projects) change hands in the last two weeks.

• This kinda started out a couple months ago with AOLs news division buying the Engadget tech site.
• Then LinkedIn bought Rapportive, one of my can't-live-without-it Gmail plugins. Fortunately, they plan to keep it running.
• Then the team at Buffer App, which I really like, acquired the coding responsibilities of the Digg Digg, social share button plugin for WordPress. This is a good move as the original dev was a bit flighty. Though how loyal the Buffer team is to the open source community remains to be seen.
• Mashable is believed to be in talks with CNN over a possible acquisition. Like Engaget, this one does not thrill me. Though it will open the stage for someone to step into that role over time.
• And last but not least, the death keel plays for Posterous as Twitter buys them up and plans to remove support from them.