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Live Journal Sold
By Reshma Kumar at December 03, 2007 0 Comments
LiveJournal, the online blogging platform owned by Six Apart which also owns Typepad, Moveable Type and Vox, has sold LiveJournal to Russian online media company, SUP, founded in 2006. The financial terms of the sale have not been made public.
LiveJournal, which has been in existence since 1999, was started by Brad Fitzpatrick who went on to join Google as its social networking guru. It claims to have 14 million users and 18 million unique visitors a month, the majority of users are 15 to 22 years old and mostly female, and it is open source. The WebGuild featured Ben and Mena Trott, co-founders of SixApart, which acquired LiveJournal in January 2005, as speakers back in April 2004 to talk about blogging and their experiences in starting SixApart.
I know that some Harvard classes use LiveJournal mostly because its free (but there is a paid component to it as well) and I wouldn’t be surprised if other academia do as well. LiveJournal.com also “supports the OpenID distributed identity system, letting you bring your LiveJournal.com identity to other sites, and letting non-LiveJournal.com users bring their identity here”. This is something another free blogging software, Blogger, is also moving towards this with its latest announcement that it is adding OpenID commenting where users can sign in using their LiveJournal identity.
Labels: Blogs, google, web 2.0
