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San Francisco, CA - December 3, 2007 - Six Apart, the world's leading independent blogging software and services company, today announced that SUP, an international media company, has acquired LiveJournal (LJ), the pioneer of social networking communities online used by millions of people around the world to connect through personal journals and topic-based communities. SUP has launched an American company, LiveJournal, Inc., to manage and operate LiveJournal globally.
Gosh, I can't imagine how all this adult content flagging stuff could possibly be related to this.
It sounds like they're trading pieces around, since there's already a relationship between 6A/LiveJournal/SUP elsewhere in the world, but still.
They use the words "ambition" and "growth" in that email and I really just get a queasy feeling. I know most everything in my life is, on some level or another, provided to me by a corporation, but ... I dunno. My spidey sense is tingling more than usual on this email. I probably should have been more alarmed than I was when 6A acquired LJ a few years ago in the first place, but... yargh. I dunno what I am trying to say, here.
Gosh, I can't imagine how all this adult content flagging stuff could possibly be related to this.
It sounds like they're trading pieces around, since there's already a relationship between 6A/LiveJournal/SUP elsewhere in the world, but still.
They use the words "ambition" and "growth" in that email and I really just get a queasy feeling. I know most everything in my life is, on some level or another, provided to me by a corporation, but ... I dunno. My spidey sense is tingling more than usual on this email. I probably should have been more alarmed than I was when 6A acquired LJ a few years ago in the first place, but... yargh. I dunno what I am trying to say, here.
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Date: Dec. 3rd, 2007 05:46 am (UTC)From:Yegods, that was a lot of marketing jargon to wade through.
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Date: Dec. 3rd, 2007 02:55 pm (UTC)From:Good: livejournal.ru started because there was no way the russian blogging culture was going to abide by the content standards/censorship that was being introduced in the US. livejournal.ru was started to let these people not be banned for TOS violations in their posts. So they may have a more liberal attitude towards what gets posted (and the censor bars that now appear may be a product of their realization that there's going to be a return of these sorts of posts to regular lj proper).
Bad: Online Russian Business Ethics is kind of an oxymoron. Waiting to see what new and marvellous ads start to appear, including ones that helpfully install software on your system.