LJ

[perlmonger]

I don't (yet) know if the rumour that Brad is going to sell LJ to Six Apart has any truth behind it, but all I can say to danah boyd's posting on the issue is Word.

If it does happen, I suspect that LJ will end up a shell; an expanding enhanced-sharedholder-value shell perhaps (at least for a while), but ultimately a dead thing.

We'll see.

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[hirez.livejournal.com]

If I put my ex-dotcom hat on, I could say 'It's about growing the userbase and worry about monetizing that later' but thankfully that garment no longer fits.

As has been mentioned elsewhere, the userbase are the set of people who wouldn't want anything to do with the friendless latte-hoovering scum who keep 'blogs'.

LJ's USP is the access control. That alone makes it a completely different thing from MT and analogues. I suppose some random cross-realm hackery could make LJ and TypePad identities trust one another... Hmm...