Comments | dj_nitrogen: Weird Timing

dj_nitrogen

Weird Timing

Jan 06, 2009 13:34

There was news that just came out about Live Journal

"The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers - which speaks to a website to be left on life support."

What makes this very odd, for me at least, is I had two senior people from Six Apart here today giving me a pitch. Six ( Read more... )

work, live journal

Comments 6

skywayman January 6 2009, 20:39:38 UTC

CNET has a far less end-of-the-world view. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10132684-36.html

pallid_bat January 6 2009, 23:09:01 UTC

May be true. Strong business model run out of Moscow though? (Pictures that Tom guy from myspace getting whacked) haha. If you type ww instead of www lj comes up in russian. They do love it there.

J

skywayman January 7 2009, 00:17:34 UTC

It is the #1 social network site in Russia I understand.

lio January 6 2009, 22:11:56 UTC

Well, if it tanks, maybe then I'll get a Facebook account. ;)

dj_nitrogen January 7 2009, 00:48:50 UTC

I got 'em both and I much prefer LJ

pallid_bat January 6 2009, 23:03:33 UTC

Russia's in a lot deeper shit than we are now. Notice the oil prices? Good for us, but a 70% reduction in a primary source of their income. If the company owns LJ, they were bad ass enough to be in one of the clans that diversified in oil. Any additional financial hits will put them under.

J