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Dice Buys Geeknet's Media Business, Including Slashdot, In $20M Deal
wiredmikey writes with the press-release version of news that we'll probably be updating as more details trickle down to the editors: "Dice Holdings (Owner of job sites including Dice.com) reported this morning that it has acquired Geeknet's online media business, including Slashdot and SourceForge. 'We are very pleased to find a new home for our media business, providing a platform for the sites and our media teams to thrive," said Ken Langone, Chairman of Geeknet. 'With this transaction completed, we will now focus our full attention on growing ThinkGeek.' Dice Holdings acquired the business for $20 million in cash. In 2011, the online media properties generated $20 million in Revenues." The AP has a small piece with the news, too. Update: 09/18 16:16 GMT by T : Ars Technica has a story up as well.
Are you telling me that Slashdot is worth less than a cheapy mp3 player full of songs? Sheesh! To Dice: if it ain't broken, don't "fix it".
I for one welcome our new Dice overlords.
s/[stupid comments]/[intelligent discourse]/gi
Had to be said.
*looks at Dice's News Page*
*looks at Slashdot*
*begins nervously wringing his hands*
What's the worst they can do?
Hire editors?
Save us CmdrTaco, you're our only hope!
"Murderer? Well, that's a harsh word. I prefer to think of myself as a Mortality Technician."
I think someone realized that all Slashdot readers use adblockPlus!
Oh I'm sure: the days of Slashdot are now numbered.
I for one welcome our new polyhedral overlords. May they smite our enemies with the pointyness of a d4 and bathe us in the glory of a d100
Has Netcraft confirmed it?
10 ) Consolidates Slashdot and Thinkgeek into ThinkSlash, you can moderate items but you also get promoted product placements under every +5 post.
9 ) Last answer on polls now always "Man I could use a new job".
8 ) All posts with word "Monster" auto-modded to -1.
7 ) User profile now includes mandatory job history and expertise fields.
6 ) Tired of too many Apple stories? Too bad.
5 ) Freed of need to bring in ad revenue because of Dicean sugar daddy, Slashdot now works full time on original goal - Cowboy Neal as first man on Mars.
4 ) Anyone with a five digit UID or lower gets to be a bit player in the next Dice.com SuperBowl commercial.
3 ) Troll posts now forwarded to employer to free up jobs for more highly moderated users.
2 ) Big plans for edgier SlashDot after future additional purchase of SuicideGirls.com
1) JOBS FOR EVERYONE!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
while you're busily shredding documents or while you're issuing cyanide capsules
I think you just described a typical day at Yahoo.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
You got some problem with Indonesia or something?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations.
In 2012, war was begginng
Anonymous Coward (AC): What happen ?
Thimoty: Somebody set up us the bomb.
AC: We get signal.
Thimoty: What !
AC: Main screen turn on.
Thimoty: It’s you !!
Dice: This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations.
God doesn't play with Dice.
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"
According to Netcraft, it actually died 15 years ago.
"FDA staff reviewers expressed concern about the number of patients who were left out of the study because they died."
I would presume that they would have had to pay more to get the geeknet holdings without slashdot.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
To Dice: if it ain't broken, don't "fix it".
That has never been the motto here. Why would it take hold now?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
welcome our tumbly, six-sided overlords.
Sig Follows: "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." -- Mark Twain
Yes.
The worst they could do? Turn slashdot into a dice.com advertising board. Negative comments? Gone. Advertisements for "related job openings" on every article? Added. Users with lots of comments that have the word "java" in them? Your slashdot inboxes will be full with dice.com adverts.
I don't java what you mean.
I'm a good cook. I'm a fantastic eater. - Steven Brust
like if they start enforcing RTFA through cookies and google analytics event tracking. there'd be a worldwide riot
insensitive clod overlords obligatory xkcd car analogy russian reversals whoosh pedant fanbois ftfy in 3...2...1..PROFIT
Crap, don't have any Dice-points - Someone, roll Parent Post up!
If you RTFA, you'll see that GeekNet have sold on Slashdot, SourceForge and Freecode, while retaining ownership of ThinkGeek:
Ken Langone, Chairman of Geeknet, added, "We are very pleased to find a new home for our media business, providing a platform for the sites and our media teams to thrive. With this transaction completed, we will now focus our full attention on growing ThinkGeek."
Right, which is why he's concerned for the future of SourceForge.
"Well enough"? That's a laugh. I can't leave a Slashdot story open on my netbook without it bringing it to its knees a couple of hours later. This site needs a code enema.
Maybe you need a new netbook?
(insert Ads for netbooks here)*
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* New slashcode since Dice aquistion, still a bit buggy
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"Dice has been talking about building content and user engagement to be top of mind and more integral to professionals doing work..."
Wow, I for one welcome our new marketing-bullshit overlords.
(Time to dig out this classic)
A long, long time ago \ I can still remember \ How the trollers used to make me smile \ And I knew if I had to boast \ That I could try to get first post \ And maybe I'd be happy for a while
But moderators made me shiver \ With every minus they'd deliver \ DoS scripts couldn't stop it \ They scored them all "Offtopic" \ I know that it's cheap crack they smoke \ And meta-moderation's broke \ At first I thought it was a joke \ The day that trolltalk died
-- Chorus --
Bye, bye, MEEPTy, OOG, and Grits guy
Drove the Cruiser like some loser who starts posts with a *sigh*
Those Steve Woston posts that we all knew were a lie
Wonder what became of girls petrified?
What became of girls petrified?
--
Did you write a bunch of Perl? \ And did it make you want to hurl \ Feces at the Wall? \ Can you believe these lame-ass polls? \ Do you post big stretched-out assholes? \ Can you make the goatse.cx link not show? \ Well I know you think that Siggy sucked \ Will the real Bruce Perens please stand up?
The bots don't have a clue. \ Man, I dig those trolls from Shoe! \ I was a rabid Free Speech advocate \ With a Red Hat T-shirt and a Free Beer gut \ Bought my Sony laptop working Pizza Hut \ The day that trolltalk died
-- Chorus --
It's been two years since the IPO \ And LNUX sinks to all-time lows \ But that's not how it used to be \ When Spiral showed how it was done \ Trolling as Jon Erikson \ Who worked for NPO Technologies \ Oh and while they tried to filter posts \ Somebody rooted Slashdot's host
"Crack Slashdot? That's absurd!" \ Better go change your password \ While JonKatz wrote a Hellmouth book \ By using posts he simply took \ And we flamed him till he was cooked \ The day that trolltalk died \ And we were singin....
-- Chorus --
10 grams. Inchfan. Didn't log out. Goddamn \ The mods will find the sid real soon, man \ You can't hide if you aren't AC \ Your bud (George here) tried BSD \ A dead Streetlawyer's tips were free \ And WIPO helped letsriot turn Nazi \ 70 made his percents up \ While 80md warned "liberals suck"
The moon does not exist \ It's just a liberal myth \ Oh and as Taco tried to take a nap \ We forced him to invoke bitchslaps \ Do you recall the flood of crap \ The day that trolltalk died? \ We started singin....
-- Chorus --
Oh and then we were wearing out "All your base" \ And started posting monospace \ The better for our penis birds \ So come on, be a zealot, be a dick \ You don't think Anne Marie's a chick? \ Because lying's all we do about HURD
So go and push for BSD \ And say GPL isn't free \ Slow down, cowboy! The limit \ Is one post every minute \ Now tell the right wing facist slime \ Infringing on Your Rights Online \ That they can't censor all the time \ The day that trolltalk died
-- Chorus --
I met a troll they called The Rev \ And asked him if CD BREAK HEAD \ He said, "That's old. Get over it." \ And with all the courage I could muster \ "Imagine what a Beowulf cluster...." \ But it wasn't worth the trouble to submit \ The karma caps are just plain jive \ And everyone's moved to K5
The steelcage has grown rusted \ And Geekizoid is busted \ The three sites I don't see for weeks \ Segfault, kernel, Comp-u-geek \ Code is not art. This ain't Freshmeat \ The day that trolltalk died
-- Chorus
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=20351&cid=2172299
Does yuor frend from Dice understand stenography? Because often I find innocent responses mght have hidden meaning.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Aaaaaand.. do you remember back all the way to the start of his comment, ie the bit I was responding to?
which is totally what she said
That explains the smell.
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra