marta (who I am ever grateful for) has confirmed that the Best Buy ad is an approved LiveJournal ad; however, there has been a change in the ad's presentation, in that it no longer automatically plays audio.

Additionally, Frequently Asked Question #265: What are LiveJournal's guidelines on acceptable ads? has been modified, as the Best Buy ad trips ( Read more... )

( Passing username in flash embed variables )

In the offshoot official community lj_advisory, a post was made yesterday on March 9th at 11am called Upcoming meeting on March 10, 2009Notably, there is a lot of focus around direct revenue features, as opposed to advertising revenue: "The expansion and enhancement of premium features are a big priority for LJ in 2009." This is unsurprising, with banner ads ( Read more... )

A post has been made about an article has been made on the recent Basic discontinuation by thies (post deleted by user). The article is here.

( Ad notable quotes. Which, come to think of it, is most of it, really )

Follow up from foxfirefey's last post about how the navstrip had the login box removed, we have another reason why her good point from that post really is a good point. daveman692 has written a Greasemonkey script to bring it back: I think this is my first real Greasemonkey script so comments/suggestions are definitely welcomed.
Welcome back Dave.

barakb25 is standing down. His replacement is this guy: The opportunity to lead this icon of the Internet is both exciting and humbling. I am grateful to many people. To Barak Berkowitz, who brought me into the company and supported me as his successor when he resigned, and the board that has but their trust in me. To Ben and Mena Trott who had the ( Read more... )

Livejournal usage continues to slowly decline. insomnia's post here from last december continues to attract new comments and the statistics continue to be updated. In addition, pyrop has posted a graphical representation of these stats on their own journal. Here's a key graphic:
( Graph showing decline in LJ usage statistics )

Not many people noticed the ads on news on the post around when they were introduced, but a quite a few have been noticing the new front page ads on the latest news post.

brad posts about being against ads on the front page, as well. But, as we all know, there are some issues you just can't win.

solitudinarian points out the new post in lj_ads: A few ad updates.... Thanks!

Among the updates:

• New sponsored community mydarkestsecret. It's based on a movie, so like all previously Sponsored Communities, it has a very limited lifespan. (Note: even spreadshirt is already dead. After Sponsored Communities lapse, you can no longer even friend them.)
• Ads are on the homepage of LJ for ( Read more... )

So, the update page was...updated. This spawned a lot of unhappy complaints in lj_design ( here and here) and lj_releases ( here) and news ( here), and at least one "protest via boycott" attempt (awaydayprotestHowever, for those of you interested in some hardcore explanations of the whys behind the user interface changes and why they are so difficult to do, there's a gem of a ( Read more... )