Kaboodle snapped up by Hearst

BizReport.com posted a short message about the (yes old news) that Hearst Corp., is buying the cool social shopping site Kaboodle. ‘After its June acquisition of the male-dominated UGO Networks Inc., Hearst Corporation is now buying a social shopping website’. Question: is this a good thing to have a cool community bought out by newspaper conglomerate, Hearst? Let alone a large company? I think they’re just bandwagoning like Murdoch’s News Corp bought MySpace. Time will tell?

MySpace was already crap with spam and poor page design, then News Corporation came along and bought it. Now that Dow Jones is under Rupert Murdoch’s control and media analysts say he’ll turn it into a trashy financial rag like he did to The Sun in the UK. The Sun was a pretty clean paper until Rupert bought it and turned it into a tabloid launching the tarty Jordon into the public eye. The Sun’s ‘Page 3′ is the competitive real estate of socialite wanna-bes and young bimbo’s with fake tits. They get into The Sun tabloid by ‘accidentally’ exposing themselves to paparazzi cameras.

At least with Kaboodle, the social shopping community won’t be turned into a soft-porn haven like nearly every other Web 2.0 social networking site.

It’ll be interesting to see if News Corporation will buy out WishListr or some other social shopping site.

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