If you’re into social networking related to blog, this headline is big news for you. Yup, I’m kind surprised that Six Apart bought LiveJournal (LJ). Here what the article says:
Since I am blogging for almost two years, I have read some of LiveJournal (LJ) articles who I know some of the users from my old high school, >WPSD and >RIT:
Amanda Davis
Jessica Demme
Jessica Fields
Dimtri Gadaev
Danielle Graybill
Alithea Kamberos
Christy Kitchen
LeAnna Koleszarik
Rosemary Kuplicki
Kristin Macgill
Emily Noschese
Nellie Noschese (!)
Aaron Renike
I really enjoyed reading their journal whom I know; they do mostly talk about cherished pictures, their memories and let us know how they are doing in their lives. Also, I find myself why Six Apart get LiveJournal: (Via Boing Boing)
* 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.
I have few questions in my mind:
- Will we use our TypeKey to login in LJ users’ to allow to write my comments in their site?
- Can LJ add their favorite link such as ‘friends’ from my Movable Type blog?
- Would I read the private LJ users by logging my TypeKey?
Blog and Social Networking names are getting bigger and shiner. Few of universities already developing the academic research groups such as our alumnus, Rochester Institute of Technology established Lab for Social Computing an month ago (Dec 2004) to take research on social networking through Information Technology.
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LiveJournal, an online community organized around personal journals, is run by Danga, a Portland, Oregon-based company founded by Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999. LiveJournal has helped fuel the rapid growth of weblogging by offering consumers both free and paid subscriptions to its easy to use personal publishing blogging tool, built on open source software. Every week, over 860,000 users update their blogs. LiveJournal's users are predominately in their teens and twenties, younger than users of Six Apart's other products.