Six Apart buys LiveJournal
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Six Apart buys Livejournal - confirmed
Six Apart buys Livejournal - confirmed
01/06/2005 09:23 AMThe rumours have been flying around for a while, but
Joi confirms them now:
Six Apart (makers of
Movable Type
and
Typepad) has
acquired Danga, the company that runs
Livejournal. This means that
over 6.5 million bloggers will be under the Six Apart umbrella.
This is pretty big. This essentially creates a tripod structure in
the blog world - the Six Apart users, the Blogger users, and the
non-affiliated rest (essentially Wordpress, Nucleus, the smaller blog
hosts like qlogger, etc). So far MSN Spaces and AOL Journals don't
seem to be playing.
Blogging is no longer a small game: There are now more Six Apart
users now than there are people in Finland. And frankly, it seems
that on the average the bloggers are a smarter bunch than the general
population over here. *grin*
So, if a population of five million people brought you Linux and Nokia and Esa-Pekka
Salonen (and plenty of
others), what could do the Six Apart crowd do?
Webl0g software vendor Six Apart buys
LiveJournal site
Webl0g software vendor Six Apart buys
LiveJournal site
01/06/2005 05:41 PMSix Apart, maker of the popular Moveable Type Weblogging software, has
acquired Danga Interactive, the operators of the Weblog service
LiveJournal, for an undisclosed amount of cash and stock, the company
announced Thursday.
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On Six Apart and Livejournal...
On Six Apart and Livejournal...
01/06/2005 07:10 AMSo Six
Apart have bought Livejournal after all. Here's a brief story
about how I didn't find out about it... I was chatting to Mena
yesterday about something else and couldn't resist querying her about
the rumours. Very patiently, and I suspect with some kind of tiny
smile just about visible on her concealed-by-IM face, Mena politely
informed that she didn't respond to rumours and speculation. To which
the only real response was, "If you won't respond, will Anil?"
I didn't get a direct answer to that question, but I did promise to
let Mena know if Anil spilled the beans. I figure she'd want to give
him a present or a bunch of flowers or something. She's so nice. But
then I forgot to ask him anyway. And so it goes...
Anyway, the news was announced relatively late last night as far as
I can tell, which means that those of us on this side of the Atlantic
probably heard about it before most of the US webloggers. Mena's done
a comprehensive write-up on Mena's Corner - as has Brad on
his Livejournal. They're both pretty excited about the acquisition -
and I think with good reason. There are people who aren't so sure
about the whole thing - and I think their anxieties are pretty
reasonable (Danah's post on the
subject in probably one of the best), but I really think there are
more opportunities here than problems. Bringing Livejournal into the
weblogging fold (or bringing weblogs closer into the Livejournal fold)
could be tremendously interesting. I'd be interested to see whether
there was any further development of Livejournal-style networking and
social networking stuff. It would seem to have lots of possibilities
(and even webloggers love this stuff - check out their adoration of Flikr if you don't believe me). And
if it was possible to bring some of that overt social stuff over into
MT or Typepad - by cross-platform protocols or whatever - then I can't
help but think that would be a good thing. I'm also really interested
in the role of Typekey in all of
this stuff.
The real threat is, I think, not that Livejournal's community is
put under threat, but that their understated aesthetic has a kind of
punk-cool and authenticity that could be polished out of existence by
the really terribly good designers at SixApart. Livejournal has the
feel of a grass-roots, bottom-up, wildly successful community project,
where MT, Blogger et al kind of
don't. The slightly ramshackle look-and-feel is a core part of that, I
think.
Anyway, all in all a pretty interesting day for webloggery and
Livejournalhood. I'm really interested in how Blogger fits into all this though.
At the moment, it's pretty clear that the fire and the dynamism is
with SixApart. They're the people innovating (at least publically).
Which leaves me with two questions (1) are Blogger becoming also-rans
or (2) what the hell are they planning?
PS. Latest rumour I heard was that SixApart were going to acquire
the previously-public sector, non-weblog-producing
national-broadcaster of the UK, the BBC. The move is expected to
incraese their staffing levels from something like 70 people to
something more like 35,000! Ok, maybe I made that last bit
up...
Read the comments
it's all on livejournal
it's all on livejournal
03/23/2005 01:07 PM
Jeff Weise's
livejournal. The rumors over at
livejournal are that Jeff Weise,
the shooter in the
Red
Lake school shooting was a
member. LiveJournal and Six Apart
LiveJournal and Six Apart
01/06/2005 02:00 AM
Sorry I couldn't say anything before, but the rumors are true. Six
Apart has acquired Danga, the company that runs LiveJournal.
See the press release, the FAQ, the post Mena's Corner and Brad LJ
for more info. So I guess I better clean learn bml
and make my LJ look a bit
better.
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Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal
Six Apart to Buy LiveJournal
01/05/2005 01:49 AM
Rum
or has it:
Six Apart is
buying
Live Journal.
via Waxy LiveJournal.com
LiveJournal.com
11/05/2003 03:02 AMLiveJournal LiveJournal.com .. hundreds of thousands .. Live Journal
(eng.) .. Liverjournal .. livejournals .. LiveJournal .. elsewhere ..
bloggers .. vendors .. Minnie .. enemy .. ljer .. ghey .. Mel ..
livejournal.com
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LiveJournal XSS
LiveJournal XSS
02/19/2004 06:15 PMJoshua Miller (Feb 19 2004)
Six Apart to buy livejournal?
Six Apart to buy livejournal?
01/05/2005 04:29 PMAh, shit .. Om
Malik
gigaom.com/2005/01/04/six-apart-to-buy-live-journal
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"LiveJournal Acquisition FAQ"
"LiveJournal Acquisition FAQ"
01/06/2005 11:50 PMPhotoscraping LiveJournal
Photoscraping LiveJournal
04/13/2004 03:44 PMThis highly addictive page scrapes up fresh images from LiveJournal
pages and displays them out of context. Stop me before I click again!
(Some images might not be safe for work.)
LinkLiveJournal Bought Out
LiveJournal Bought Out
01/06/2005 09:19 AMLiveJournal,
the blogging site, has been bought up by Six Apart, the company behind
the MovableType weblog software. The buy-out will see staff working
with Danga, the company which previously owned LiveJournal, move to
San Francisco to work with the new owners.
LiveJournal's creator, Brad Fitzpatrick, said the move will mean
"nothing earth-shattering" for the existing service.
However, users are to get access to trackback for the first time.
"They're not buying the site to spam you, screw you, destroy the
community, or convert you en masse to their other paid services,"
Fitzpatrick said. "They just want to double our efforts and have
a part in all types of blogging. "
Six Apart CEO, Barak Berkowitz, added: "We are now the only
company to offer the full range of weblogging tools to the
market," he said. "We welcome LiveJournal users to the Six
Apart family, and promise to keep the LiveJournal culture and quality
which has earned their devotion."
Fitzpatrick promised development of LiveJournal will continue after
the move; prices would not rise and free accounts would not be
scrapped, he said. Since it started up five years ago, LiveJournal has
built up a community of over five million users - it currently claims
to have just short of 2.5 million actively-updated blogs on its
servers.
View:
LiveJournal announcement
View:
Six Apart press release
View:
Movable Type homepage
Read full story...Six Apart: LiveJournal Acquisition FAQ
Six Apart: LiveJournal Acquisition FAQ
01/06/2005 11:55 AMSix Apart: LiveJournal Acquisition FAQ .. acquisition FAQ they have
published ..
FAQ
sixapart.com/press/livejournal_acquisition_faq.shtml
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LiveJournal Outage
LiveJournal Outage
02/01/2005 10:05 PMDue to a power failure affecting all of Internap's data center,
LiveJournal is currently completely inaccessible, and we're waiting
on...
Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal
Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal
01/06/2005 02:14 AMSo, yes, the rumors were true. Six Apart did indeed acquire
LiveJournal. We've assembled a number of links that should...
"meme on livejournal"
"meme on livejournal"
03/27/2005 11:42 PMLiveJournal demographics
LiveJournal demographics
12/17/2003 11:55 AM
LiveJournal has posted a bunch of demographic stats about its
user-community -- the age distribution skew (shown here) is
fascinating.
Link
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via Smartpatrol<
/a>)
LiveJournal Images
LiveJournal Images
04/12/2004 03:32 PMTeen angst zeitgeist: 25 most recent LiveJournal Images .. random
LiveJournal images (potentially unsafe for work) .. images posted to
Live Journal sites .. LJ pictures page
adcott.net/ljimages
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"LiveJournal Images"
"LiveJournal Images"
04/12/2004 10:00 PMSix Log: Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal
Six Log: Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal
01/06/2005 07:49 PMSix Log: Six Apart Acquires
LiveJournal
sixapart.com/log/2005/01/six_apart_acqui.shtml
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SixApart to buy LiveJournal?
SixApart to buy LiveJournal?
01/05/2005 01:19 PM
Tha
t is big news. I did not realize that
LiveJournal.com, a blogging service
with 5.5 million bloggers, is based on
open source software. It will be
interesting to see how this develops. Will
SixApart work to foster the continued
development of the open source LiveJournal software or will it instead
focus harvesting paying users for it's
TypePad service?
LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed
LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed
01/06/2005 02:30 AMSixapart buying LiveJournal?
Sixapart buying LiveJournal?
01/04/2005 11:55 PMXeni Jardin:
There are rumors on the internets that
Six Apart just bought / is buying
/ will soon buy
LiveJournal.
Details as they come.
Update: Om Malik has more:
Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad,
and Moveable Type is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed
amount. The deal is a mix of stock and cash, and could be announced
sometime later this month, according to those close to the two
companies. If the deal goes through, then Six Apart will become one of
the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million
users. It also gives the company a very fighting chance against
Google’s Blogger and Microsoft’s MSN Spaces.
Lin
kLiveJournal announces sale to Six Apart
LiveJournal announces sale to Six Apart
01/06/2005 01:54 AMXeni Jardin:
It's official. LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick says:
Why is Six Apart buying LiveJournal? Lots of reasons:
* Our companies are more alike than different.
* We both use Perl.
* Together we form super robot that's stronger than the sum of
its parts.
* Super robots can fight super companies.
* They respect us, we respect them.
* We have a number of features they don't.
* We have experience with making "inward-facing" community
sites, whereas their sites/products tend to be "outward-facing". They
want some of that inward-facing action.
* Because we're awesome.
What does this mean for LiveJournal? Nothing earth-shattering.
LiveJournal development and support will continue, and will probably
even accelerate, as we grow the team. We'll continue to work on speed,
reliability, and new features. LiveJournal won't become paid-user-only
or anything crazy like that. We're not going to raise prices. We're
not going to cancel permanent accounts, etc, etc. And we're not going
to spam or sell your information. You own your journals, not us.
Really you shouldn't see any negative changes. The most immediate
changes will be that we'll start to get prettier...
more styles, themes, etc. Six Apart is really good at that and we're
not.
Lin
k to announcement. (
thanks marginalia and Perian)
Update: And Six Apart announces their side of
the story here: Link<
/a>.
LiveJournal Buyout Rumor
LiveJournal Buyout Rumor
01/05/2005 01:20 PM
AOL blocking LiveJournal referrals
AOL blocking LiveJournal referrals
10/28/2003 11:08 PMSo, according to this Slashdot piece, AOL is blocking referrals from
LiveJournal. Now, after a scan of Evan Martin's post...
ProNet: LiveJournal Hacks
ProNet: LiveJournal Hacks
03/19/2005 02:53 AMBrad's been active with a cool little LiveJournal hack, inspired by
the buzz around tags at this year's O'Reilly Emerging Technology
conference, where he displays LiveJournal's interests in a new
variable-sized tag-style display, instead of the years-old sorted
list. Pretty....
LiveJournal Image Scrape
LiveJournal Image Scrape
04/14/2004 02:24 AMRecent Pictures Users Uploaded to LiveJournal Code from here and
found via Boing Boing here. If you want it in your news aggregator...
Terri Schiavo's LiveJournal
Terri Schiavo's LiveJournal
03/29/2005 01:53 PM"If you happen to have extra marshmallow Peeps lying around, do me a
favor and disolve them in Mountain Dew and send them my way!"
LiveJournal image zeitgeist
LiveJournal image zeitgeist
04/13/2004 03:44 PMThis page contains a scraping of the most recent couple-dozen images
included in LiveJournal posts (which often includes some NSFW stuff,
wage-slaves be warned).
Link
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Thanks, Singularity!)
Lovecraft in LiveJournal form
Lovecraft in LiveJournal form
08/12/2004 02:09 AM"The LiveJournal of Zachary Marsh" is a short story in the form of a
series of LiveJournal entries from an unsuspecting teen whose
long-lost father is a Cthuloid spawn living near Miskatonic. The story
that unspools is pure Lovecraft -- if Lovecraft's protagonists took
"Which Muppet Are You?" personality quizzes and really dug the fact
that the Miskatonic bar doesn't ask for ID.
Link
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via JWZ)
The aggregated mood of LiveJournal, over
time
The aggregated mood of LiveJournal, over
time
12/21/2003 07:19 AMWho's bored?
projects.si.umich.edu/~handel/lj/?r
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ProNet: LiveJournal Style Contest
ProNet: LiveJournal Style Contest
04/04/2005 06:21 PMThere's one week left if you want to enter the LiveJournal 2005 Style
Contest. If you're familiar with LiveJournal's S2 style language or
want to learn it, now you've got a good incentive to get started.
There's the chance to...
Livejournal confirms the rumored sale to
Six Apart
Livejournal confirms the rumored sale to
Six Apart
01/06/2005 10:11 PMIt's official: Six Apart buys
LiveJournal
livejournal.com/users/news/82926.html?style=mine
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Rumored: SixApart will acquire
LiveJournal
Rumored: SixApart will acquire
LiveJournal
01/05/2005 03:59 PMIf it proves to be true that SixApart is purchasing Live Journal
then this will definitely be a interesting development. [Om
Malik]
Blog Software Play Six Apart To Buy
LiveJournal
Blog Software Play Six Apart To Buy
LiveJournal
01/06/2005 12:10 PMInternet News Jan 6 2005 3:32PM GMT
Technology Briefing: Six Apart Acquires
LiveJournal.com
Technology Briefing: Six Apart Acquires
LiveJournal.com
01/06/2005 05:22 PMSix Apart, the maker of Movable Type, software for publishing Web
logs, said that it had acquired Danga Interactive, which operates the
popular blogging site LiveJournal.com.
apophenia: The Cultural Divide Between
LiveJournal and Six Apart
apophenia: The Cultural Divide Between
LiveJournal and Six Apart
01/05/2005 10:43 PMkulturellen Unterschiede ..
elsewhere
zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/01/04/the_cultural_div
ide_between_livejournal_and_six_apart.html
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The Morning News - The LiveJournal of
Zachary Marsh
The Morning News - The LiveJournal of
Zachary Marsh
06/22/2004 05:28 PMThe Morning News - The LiveJournal of Zachary
Marsh
themorningnews.org/archives/stories/the_livejournal_of_zachary
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