news Circus Ponies bought by Google and uses a .XYZ

[Mr. Deleted]

They were aquired by Google, and now Google had this on the .xyz domain

Cis for Circus Ponies

Circus Ponies Software, Inc. developed and sold Circus Ponies NoteBook, the electronic notebook that helped you take great notes, manage any project, and stay super organized.

Originally written for the NeXT machine, NoteBook won "App of the Year" from NeXTWORLD magazine in 1991. NoteBook was rewritten to run on OS X, and released in April, 2003. It was ported to the iPad in 2010.

Microsoft cloned NoteBook in the early 2000s to create the craptacular OneNote.

http://www.circusponies.xyz/

 

[Name Trader]

Did they buy the company, the .com, the .xyz?

 

[Eric Lyon]

Circus Ponies has been closed and acquired:

• Google acquires and shutters note-taking app Circus Ponies
  
• Google buys up—and shuts down—app developer Circus Ponies

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Did they buy the company, the .com, the .xyz?

Yes, the .com has the a notice that they were sold to Google too. Then it links to the .xyz.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

I liked the part about the "craptacular OneNote."

 

[artstar]

I hate the domain anyhow! Too fricking trendy even when started 13 years ago!!

 

[Eckhart]

That's great news for XYZ, it seems that Google will keep branding stuff with it.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Turns out it was a joke. http://www.cmswire.com/social-business/fact-or-farce-google-acquires-circus-ponies/

So, Did Google Buy Circus Ponies?
We asked Google the question. “Sounds like someone having fun on a website,” is what its spokesperson called and told us.

Let’s hope that that’s the case. We’re talking about the “fun” part here. After all, the team at Circus Ponies spent more than 13 years creating what was, by almost all accounts, a great product — fun, useful and beautiful — all at the same time. According to most of the reviews that we’ve read, it’s every bit as good, or better, as anything Microsoft, Google or Amazon has to offer.

Maybe one of the cloud giants can turn the joke into the truth by buying it, even if it’s only for a few dollars. What say you Marc Benioff, Ginni Rommety, Diane Greene? Sometimes the little guys need lifting.

[UPDATE: January 6. Jayson contacted me and wrote: "The people reporting that we were purchased by Google have lost their minds a little. I understand why someone might connect the dots that way, but neither www.circusponies.com nor www.circusponies.xyz says anything about Alphabet owning us. I mostly just thought it would be funny for Circus Ponies to be the “C” in Alphabet. I am flattered that people would think that Circus Ponies was on par with Google and all the other multibillion sub-corporations Alphabet owns."]

http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/mac-developer-circus-ponies-closes-up-shop-for-good