LiveJournal Buyout Rumor

Aaron B. Russell writes "Om Malik reports that Six Apart are looking to buy blogging community LiveJournal.com. Rumour? I hope so. I seriously hope so. Neither Six Apart nor Danga Interactive (the company behind LiveJournal) have commented on the situation yet. What impact will this have for the users and volunteers over at LiveJournal? Chris Schmidt, a volunteer at LiveJournal, hypothesizes here(1) and here(2) ." Sources close to LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick say this is just a rumor, and that LJ is not being sold. Update: 01/06 by J : Our sources were way wrong.

LJ. bleah

[British]

I recently got rid of my LiveJournal, and feel a bit relieved. FOr some reason, I found myself spending too much time reading about the percieved(not exactly real) lives of other people who have no bearing on my life. I've been slandered twice on LJ, and in one instance my full name was not used, so I couldn't report them for TOS violations.

That's what's great about livejournal. You can say anything you want, it's only one side of the story, and everyone on your friends list will kiss up to you and agree.

Want to have some fun on LJ? Try to disagree with someone on your friends list, and watch the hilarity ensue.

With interconnected friends networks, gossip can spread like wildfire and all sorts of wonderful sour attitudes towards one another can result.

How would you like it if some LJ using friend of yours decided to tell the world about something you did or didn't do to your embarassment?

I for one can't wait until the blogger bubble bursts.

Wait for Apple ...

[adzoox]

I think Apple might have all the rumor sites confused a bit or at least making an omission:

Just as Apple bought Soundjam from Cassidy and Greene to make iTunes, and as they bought Logic to create Garageband and their own pro audio app - I see Apple making a foray into BLOGging and possibly integrating it into .Mac. Or it could be part of the iWork bundle.

I would imagine they would go after a the biggest - either LiveJournal or Blogger.

I thought I read that the owners of Blogger are big Mac guys.

It's a blog

[cheezemonkhai]

I'm not trolling here before I do get flamed, however who gives a monkeys.

What relevance does a blog have to most people. I find them annoying and they tend to have people bitching about their mates etc.
Any sensible person wouldn't post that they had done x on a blog unless they were trying to tell the world.

People who weblog are craving attention from the rest of the world.

Sorry but go get a diary and write in in there.

(In case you hadn't noticed, yes I hate bloggers)

Quick download the source!

[BestNicksRTaken]

http://www.livejournal.org/download/code/

If 6A screw it up, we just make our own!

He, maybe my LJ client will never get finished now, they'll probably shut down the API.