[STARTUP] gets acquired by [BIGDOTCOM] for $[LOTSOFMONEY]
When that deadline hits, you’ve got to post a story quickly. Use this simple dotcom acquisition news story form to generate your article without having to make any calls.
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October 11th, 2006 12:03
Doesn’t work.
October 11th, 2006 12:29
I broke it for literally about 3 minutes…you must’ve hit it at just the wrong moment. Sorry, Aaron.
Matt
October 11th, 2006 20:52
Great fun. I’ve enjoyed sending off the output from this blog.
October 11th, 2006 21:42
Funny stuff. You should convert the form to a POST so we can send the results to friends via URL.
October 12th, 2006 07:28
Excellent idea. Done.
Matt
October 20th, 2006 09:40
Extraordinary! You made my day.
October 22nd, 2006 06:35
[...] Sí, señores. Incluso antes de que estuviese on line y en domingo. Matt McAllister tiene todos los detalles de la operación. Lo siento Javier, la exclusiva era para ti, pero es que Matt me lo puso muy fácil. En: Reservia — October 22, 2006 [...]
October 23rd, 2006 09:00
Classic.
One glitch. If you have a person’s name with a single tick mark (like the one below) it gets escaped in the output with a backslash.
http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/dotcom-startup-acquired-result.php?STARTUP=CrapOnDemand&STARTUP2=FecesLive%21&STARTUP3=OnAShingleOnline&FOUNDER1=Thou+San+Dflushes&FOUNDER2=Choc+O%27Haulic&LOCATION=Cow+Pie+Valley&EXOTICLOCATION=Fecal+Testing+Labs&LARGEDOTCOM=Stuffforce.com&LARGEDOTCOM2=Minisoft&BUZZNOUN1=Office+2.0&BUZZNOUN2=SAAS&BUZZNOUN3=AJAX&BUZZVERB1=share&BUZZVERB2=post&BLOGGER=Brown+Oser&SCHOOL=Farmers+U&YEAR=1921&PRICE=1.6b&GARAGE=birdcage&BAND=Weird+Al+Yankovic