Posts Tagged with ‘Livejournal’

Normally people use social bookmarking services like Delicious or Ma.gnolia to bookmark pages that they find interesting and to demonstrate their support to website owners by acknowledging that they find their content useful.
People also import their bookmarks from browsers to social bookmarking sites to keep them as a backup which can be useful if something unexpected happens to your browser. But there are some pages bookmarked that are simply beyond my understanding. Like when you want to do a search [...]

Looks like the users still have the power to influence decisions of service providers in the web 2.0 era. I have just seen the news (on a Russian-language blog since LiveJournal is a platform mostly popular among Russian users) that LiveJournal management (the Russian company Sup) made a decision to give the users basic accounts back.
As a short summary, until March there were three levels of accounts on LiveJournal: basic (no cost, no ads, minimal features), plus [...]

For those looking for legal precedent to confirm that the First Amendment doesn't provide carte blanche when posting on line, they need look no further than Doninger v. Niehoff, — F.3d —-, 2008 WL 2220680 (2nd Cir. May 29, 2008). Doninger v. Niehoff will probably be cited several more times this year in the U.S. court system as people slowly begin to realize that just because the Web makes it easy to harass people, it doesn't mean you can do [...]

I want to love Socialthing. Really, truly I do. I am not the world's biggest FriendFeed fan even though it seems everyone has already sworn allegiance to it judging by the number of times I see it added on my Facebook news feed. But FriendFeed is ugly. And I'm tired of having to find and add people everywhere I go. So imagine my glee when I opened my email this morning to find my Socialthing invite.
Socialthing is yet another entry [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

New Jersey State Law requires coverage of mental illness only if it's biologically based. Once you get past that antiquated mentality that probably allows medical insurance companies to dodge coverage on a whim, you have to wonder how they would go about proving that a condition was biologically based.
According to Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, odds are eating disorders have no biological basis, and to prove it, they want your hard drive, your emails, and, oh yes, [...]

Sometimes I'm a little slow at catching on with new things. It took an interesting new look to Ross Mayfield's blog to get me to notice Dandelife, but I may have gotten hooked on this whole lifecasting thing. I was fortunate enough to spend some time IMing with Dandelife CEO Kelly Abbott about his vision for Dandelife as well as getting a bit of a newcomer's walk-through.
Dandelife started out as a blogging platform, but it's obviously a different application than [...]

The modern invention known as OpenID, first developed by a Mr Brad Fitzpatrick (creator of LiveJournal), offers quite an enticing prospect. In essence, its purpose is to simplify greatly the maintenance of multiple Web service/utility accounts, by providing a single name and single password, both (ideally) secure, in order that the user’s experience when interacting with said accounts be as seamless and fluid as possible. No documents full of passcodes to maintain. No need to entrust sensitive data to various [...]

LiveJournal has been around since 1999 as a “standby” of blogging and social networking. Yesterday Six Apart (which owns LJ) agreed to sell the company to SUP a Russian online media company. The complete terms of the deal are not available but SUP will evidently create an American management company to manage the social network's operations. Media company buyouts have been abundant in a sort of “feeding frenzy” for social media traffic and I think we can expect [...]