Now Under New Ownership?
bradfitz reveals in this post that Six Apart has bought LiveJournal.
Six Apart, founded by Ben and Mena Trott, created Movable Type, a weblogging system that I've used over here. They extended MT as the basis of a bloghosting system called TypePad. It's an increasingly slick piece of software.
Brad seems assured that LJ will remain LJ, and if my impressions of the Six Apart folks are halfway accurate, then they understand what makes LJ different from other bloghosting systems and will focus on improving the project overall.
Six Apart, founded by Ben and Mena Trott, created Movable Type, a weblogging system that I've used over here. They extended MT as the basis of a bloghosting system called TypePad. It's an increasingly slick piece of software.
Brad seems assured that LJ will remain LJ, and if my impressions of the Six Apart folks are halfway accurate, then they understand what makes LJ different from other bloghosting systems and will focus on improving the project overall.