Posts Tagged with ‘Livejournal’

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 [...]

“Utterz, be herd.” Personally, I find that phrase sounding like a bad pun that only a slow on the uptake city slicker could appreciate, and I mean bad. Would the program be any better? Utterz, in their own words, “is the first way you can instantly blog your experiences, thoughts and ideas, anywhere, using all the capabilities of your mobile phone. Utterz mashes together the voice, video, pictures, and text you call or send in and creates an 'Utter' that [...]

Movable Type, a “publishing platform” created by the folks at SixApart, has been released in 4.0 form – and it’s going to have its source code open for all to see in a few months.
It's about time.
SixApart will be throwing Movable Type into the OSS (open source software) ring around the end of Q3 ‘07, and with version four packed with “more than 50 new features, including a new installation and upgrade wizard, easier and more powerful [...]

I know that I speak for everyone here at Profy when I say that our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims of yesterday's events at Virginia Tech.
The horror of yesterday will live in the hearts and minds of the Virginia Tech community, the United States, and much of the world for some time to come, but what moved me the most was the way in which what would have been a local, and somewhat national, event [...]

There are a great many social networks in existence today. Too many. It?s an industry inside an industry, and it?s starting to get stretched thin.
By now you?ve probably found your favorite among the choices. If you?re a die-hard music fan, you?ve probably skipped over MySpace for a more specialized circle, one with plenty of audiophiles and talk of underground scenes thriving beneath the radar. Perhaps you?d like to have more sophisticated discourse. There are places to get your intellectual fix, [...]

With the popularity of Web 2.0 comes an issue with multiple registrations for its adoptees; interactive sites require log-ins, and you'll soon find your list of log-ins requires a better memory than an elephant, as well as feel like you've given your email address to every person in the world. Stepping in to assist is the OpenID project, which allows you to create a single point of registry for any sites adopting its use, with the ability to create [...]

Today I have seen the new Google's special Valentine's Day logo on TechCrunch - I am sure someone in the company will have a really bad Valentine's day (and not because of being lonely but because of the logo). I think that Valentine's Day must really be a Web 2.0 holiday with so many companies engaged in it - even important enough for Google to use a special logo (definitely created in a hurry but still). I also hope you [...]

LiveJournal is a hosted blog solution from SixApart, the same company that also provides TypePad, Movable Type, and a new offering called Vox. SixApart???s web site indicates the focus ??? TypePad and Movable Type being offered for professional and business blogging, Vox for personal blogs ??? and LiveJournal for a community of bloggers.
Not surprisingly, the key highlight of LiveJournal is the ability to form and manage a community of blogs; people who choose to blog on a common set of [...]

For all the hype that follows YouTube, Flickr and other new Web 2.0 offerings, the biggest Web 2.0 success story has really been weblogs and blogging. A report on Technorati talks about the explosive growth; the number of blogs today is over a 100 times what it’s been 3 years ago, with the size doubling every 200 days or so. Yet, the Technorati count of 55 million excludes spam blogs, and others that don’t exactly meet their criteria as being [...]