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LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board: LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory BoardIt's not like anybody uses LJ anymoreThe damage will be minimal and it will die a quick and painless death. And the only people who will notice are the people who like to reminisce about what they did in 2002.RE: LiveJournal's new owners...; Tags: LiveJournal, Advisory Board, new owner; Discussion threads 2008-03-24
LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board: No more ad-free, free user accounts. Having pledged to "do no harm", blogging and social networking platform LiveJournal's new Russian owners are no longer offering new users the Basic Level account, "which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile", reports ReadWriteWeb....; Tags: Advertisement, Board, LiveJournal, SUP, Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-03-24
LiveJournal acquired by Russian company SUP: LiveJournal acquired by Russian company SUPThere's a lot of skeptics on LJA vocal part of the community was very critical of Six Apart from the beginning, so I expect that to continue. I generally don't want it to evolve into facebook or myspace, or anything like those, personally, as I...; Tags: SUP, RUSSIAN company, LiveJournal; Discussion threads 2007-12-03
LiveJournal acquired by Russian company SUP: While some will inevitably see this as Six Apart offloading its aging blogging platform and original social network, LiveJournal which the company acquired less than three years ago, the deal makes a whole lot of sense, and serves as a reminder that the Web is a world wide business not...; Tags: LiveJournal, SUP, Blogging, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Social Networking, Internet, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2007-12-03
News to know: IE 8 anticipation; LiveJournal sold; Facebook's fumble: Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update. Ryan Naraine: IE vs Firefox: Microsoft crunches security numbers. Dan Farber: Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine. Techmeme. CA: Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy:...; Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office 2007, Facebook, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, One Laptop Per Child Project, Motorola Inc., Fuel Cells, Web Browsers, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-12-03

Six Apart sells LiveJournal for c. $30 million: Speculation has been rife over at TechCrunch but sources close to events as they say have confirmed that Six Apart has sold LiveJournal for around $30 million to Russia's SUP. Insiders are said to be happy with their return on a $5 million investment to a market...; Tags: Partnership, Speculation, Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, Business Structures, Investment, Finance, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2007-12-03
Six Apart jettisons LiveJournal: Six Apart jettisons LiveJournalsome rerference:http://www.msdner.comRE: Six Apart jettisons LiveJournali think someone needs to deeper analysis & review of SixApart and what's going on over there.this story barely scratches the surface, and they've gone far too long without someone doing a significant review of their company / business.there's a bigger story...; Tags: Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal; Discussion threads 2007-12-02
Six Apart jettisons LiveJournal: Six Apart announced a "new home" for LiveJournal LJ, the blogging and social networking tools and community it acquired in January 2005. The new home is Russian-based online media company SUP. Another way of describing what's happening with LiveJournal is that it was sold because it's not...; Tags: Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, Home, LiveJournal Russia, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Management, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-12-02
Livejournal Friends Checker (xpi): Places an icon in the lower left corner of your browser when one of your friends post. Only works with paid accounts. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.; Tags: LiveJournal, Tony Chang, Web Browsers, Internet; Software downloads 2007-10-01
LiveJournal Addons (xpi): This extension is destined to facilitate use of LiveJournal services. Add some facilities to work with LiveJournal. Basic functions include: Friends page monitoring; New messages observation (in "Message Center"); Separate comment threads tracking; Friends' birthdays reminder; Friends/Friends of" lists lurking; Comments unfolding: by threads (pages in light format and page...; Tags: LiveJournal; Software downloads 2007-09-26
LiveJournal Quote (xpi): Let's make our communication in LJ more easy. LiveJournal Quote is an extension for easy communication in LiveJournal. LiveJournal Quote makes quotes. Allows you to write in post-form tags [quote]Text[/quote] and on clicking the Send-button tags will be converted in html-quote Div element. You can also select some text on...; Tags: LiveJournal, Innuendo, LiveJournal Quote, LiveJournal Quote Make, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2007-09-25
LiveJournal Hook (xpi): LiveJournal Hook allows integration of LiveJournal specific tags and text formatting into the right click context menu. Other features include: Automatic random selection of user icon; Automatic selection of privacy setting; Automatic song insertion from Foxy tunes http://www.foxytunes.com/; And sporadic support for LiveJournal clones. This version is the first release...; Tags: LiveJournal, Edgar Allan, LiveJournal Hook, Security; Software downloads 2007-09-21
LiveJournal Friends Reader (widget): A way to check your LJ Friends page without loading it. LiveJournal.com only allows you to get the posts of a single user in an RSS request. LiveJournal Friends Reader provides a way around that, so you can view your friends page as if it were an RSS feed. View...; Tags: LiveJournal, LiveJournal Friends Reader, RSS, Internet; Software downloads 2007-06-27
Proof of open source incline at SixApart: Proof of open source incline at SixApartLiveJournal invented open source blogging.Dana, thanks for taking a look at MT4. I have to disagree with the premise of much of what you assert here, though. Our LiveJournal team, back when they were indepedent before they became part of 6A, *invented* open-source blogging...; Tags: open source, LiveJournal; Discussion threads 2007-06-06
Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt: Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revoltI think your article is extremely sensationalistic, and defensve of pedosI think the article as written defends the action of pedophiles in LJ. I have personally run into "chld love" sites on LJ, and I find them reprehensible. If NAMBLA is not allowed to...; Tags: INTERNET, LiveJournal; Discussion threads 2007-05-30
Gizmo and LiveJournal: why this is an ideal combination: For the life of me, Ive long failed to understand why every single darn social software website and program doesnt have an officially sanctioned IP talk client.Were so into "well, duh" territory here. Social networks are not only about posting your photo and engaging in forum discussions. They can,...; Tags: Gizmo; Blog posts 2006-10-16
16% of active Russian Internet users aware of blogs, LiveJournal claims the largest mindshare: Russian research agency ROMIR Monitoring claims that 32% of Russians who are online at least once a day are aware of blogs. 16% of those Russians who are aware of blogs visit them several times a day. SixApart-owned LiveJournal.com has the mind share 22%, while 43% of online Russians have...; Tags: Russians, LiveJournal; Blog posts 2005-10-28
Top blog sites: Blogspot, Livejournal, Typepad, Xanga: ComScore Networks published the list of the top 10 blog destinations in Q1 2005. Blogspot.com, LiveJournal, TypePad, Xanga, AOL Journals, blogs.com, MSN Spaces, BlogDrive, GreatestJournal and DiaryLand are top blogging destinations.; Tags: Blogging, Xanga, LiveJournal, TypePad, blog; Blog posts 2005-08-09
Can an open source project get acquired? One just did: Can an open source project get acquired? One just didNot the only oneLiveJournal is open source and was acquired as well.Not an open source projectI have no idea what kind of stuff ZDNet is being smoking lately, but sourceforge.net IS NOT AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT.sourceforge.net is a repository or many...; Tags: sourceforge.net, LiveJournal, open source, JasperSoft, open-source product; Discussion threads 2005-04-25

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Latest Flock Beta delivers Digg, Pownce and AOL Mail support: Having launched in late 2005 amidst a tsunami of web 2.0 hype, it was always going to be difficult for social web browser Flock to keep up with expectations. But after getting through what seemed like an unhealthy period of stagnation, update by update the software is really starting to...; Tags: Digg, America Online Inc., Twitter, E-mail, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Internet, Steve O\'Hear; Blog posts 2008-05-14