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Jan 05, 2005 12:34

Om Malik:

Folks have been predicting a big year for mergers and acquisitions in 2005, and we are starting the year with a bang. I have learnt exclusively that Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad and Moveable Type, is about to acquire Live Journal, for an undisclosed amount. The deal is a mix of stock and cash, and ( Read more... )

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Open Source? jeffx January 5 2005, 17:16:05 UTC

Reading a lot of alarmist comments including my earlier one.

I am in the process of downloading the source code for livejournal. So it would be possible, if it all goes to shit, to begin something similar again. That is one of the strengths of open source.

Re: Open Source? superflow January 5 2005, 17:20:38 UTC

Smart move.

(I wonder if a lot of people are signing up to DeadJournal today?)

This was a bad way for even a hint of a 6A/LJ deal to get out, which I think is fuelling alarmism. That can only be combated by information.

Hm. I wonder if this is the way it happens. A natural downturn in LJ interest that some have perceived (and of COURSE these things always go in cycles) suddenly combined with a sense of instability, and then people ganking the source code and possibly spinning off into their own small LJ-powered hubs...

Re: Open Source? rans January 5 2005, 17:56:49 UTC

That seems to be how forum populations move around. The people that make things like LJ and forums fun tend to have a 6th sense when it comes to jumping ship. They're already on to the new hip thing and that will be discovered in time. So moves the Internet.

Social Chemistry at work.

Re: Open Source? boyecho January 5 2005, 20:23:02 UTC

i've moved with a large crowd through THREE separate forums pertaining to one of my main interests in this manner. so i do believe it. if shit goes to shit, then i'll just go back to my own old hideouts. no one needs to read my crap anyway.

Re: Open Source? xerne January 5 2005, 20:12:29 UTC

I've seen more people moving to GreatestJournal lately than DeadJournal. GJ has no codes, more features, and doesn't have the "cool attitude" that users are shit. Both have ads, so it's all the same to me.

Re: Open Source? xerne January 5 2005, 20:11:20 UTC

I've thought about setting up an LJclone on my own, but I am not a code wizard and have never installed anything more complicated than phpBB. I think what would really fascillitate "starting from scratch" would be someone making an easy-to-read set of instructions for installing it. (Unless that already exists and I'm blind, or it's too complicated for such a thing to work.)

Re: Open Source? jeffx January 5 2005, 21:00:07 UTC

There is this LiveJournal Server.

The problem really isn't the complication of the task...there are always geeks out there to help the poets. The problems are: 1) No buddy would use it and 2) cost to support large amounts of users.

If something were to happen to livejournal because of this, 1 may take care of itself.

Re: Open Source? xerne January 5 2005, 22:23:30 UTC

Well, my interest in it was actually for a specific use that would have a limited userbase, so I don't think the amount of traffic it would generate would be too significant. I don't have any illusions about "saving LJ." =P

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