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LiveJournal Buyout Confirmed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-beginnings dept.

Kingfox writes "Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, finally confirms the story that was posted to Slashdot yesterday. Six Apart has purchased Danga. This means that they're moving to San Francisco, LiveJournal users are finally getting the trackback feature, but the project will stay open source, and little else will change for the end user."

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  1. Re:Ads already in place by Tink2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Er, did you bother to go look at her references?

    It's quite clear (especially if you actually go look at the pages she cites) that she's been spywared.

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  2. Hey, amateur porn is where it's at... by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 4, Informative

    So long as the amateur porn stays in place, and I can continue to co-admin my porn community, then all is well. (You need to get an account to read the community, and list a valid 18+ birthdate, and submit a join-request. This is so the community doesn't get deleted. It's a CYA maneuver by the livejournal administration to ensure that everybody who watches porn can lie about their age.)

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  3. Correction by wankledot · · Score: 3, Informative

    SA is buying Livejournal fromDanga, they are not buying Danga itself.

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  4. LJ Backup/Export to XML by NeuralAbyss · · Score: 4, Informative

    I wrote this script after hearing the rumours.. can also be a good thing if you just want a backup of your livejournal.

    LJExport v0.1

    Any comments are welcome.. released under the BSD license.

    1. Re:LJ Backup/Export to XML by Malk-a-mite · · Score: 3, Informative

      http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

  5. Re:LJ trackbacks will make Google go wonky... by djsmiley · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google ranks is clever like that.
    As if the first page in the pile has a low rank, it gives off an even smaller part of this to the next page. Now, if a BIG blog which was very popular joined this, it would effect maybe 1 or 2 tiers down but after this yet again its gone.

    This means only the BIG blogs can stay at the top, and anyway when googling, how many blogs do you click?

    I know i never click any, not by habit but because there is none there. I guess this is due to the almost randomness of the infomation contained therein.

    Oh and so you know im not bshitting about what i know about google, my sites listed top for djsmiley, djsmiley2k, tim bowers, and a few other terms...
    The method? Add sensible content, add adwords, and add links to all my bookmarks.

    At first when someone does something different google ranks tend to end up ranking it highly, but as soon as everyone catches on, it drops again to a normal level.

    (now waiting for home PC to get /.'ed

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