SUP and Last.fm partner up.

The previous post was about the new partnership LJ has with the surveying/affiliate lead/advertising company Peanut Labs. The new page is at: http://www.livejournal.com/misc/peanutlabs.bml and is linked to from the homepage ad now showing on the front page for Basic/Plus ( Read more... )

A tl;dr, muckraking look into LJ's new partners of XuQa through Peanut Labs.

( The new graphic ads )

You've probably seen this in news and lj_biz already.

news: LJ and SUP
lj_biz: LJ and SUP

The parts will still be integrated, and Russian users have the ability to opt out and stay within the main LJ jurisdiction. As far as I can tell, sup_ru is dedicated to SUP, but it is hard to be sure.

beckyzoole points out this english version article talking more about SUP's grander plans ( Read more... )

Six Apart has acquired the startup Rojo, an RSS feed reader service. The press release is here.

Summary: Estimates put the purchase at about $5 million, which if so would be a poor turn out for the venture capital investors who put in $3.5 million into the company. It seems to be more an acquiring of personnel than technology, as the press ( Read more... )