Robert Andrews
Jan 6, 2009 11:08 AM
LiveJournal’s Moscow-based owner Sup yesterday laid off most of its remaining San Francisco staff in a restructuring that will also involve the departure of VP and GM Matt Berardo after just seven months, we have confirmed. The rejigging means product development and design move to Russia, though servers, admin and…
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Robert Andrews
Nov 26, 2008 1:14 PM
Several years after rival newspapers started theirs, The Independent today finally launched its first serious weblogs initiative, coming pretty much as a joint project with Russian-owned community site LiveJournal. Their new “Independent Minds” site hosts several new correspondents’ blogs on livejournal.com but, like MyTelegraph before it, encourages readers to sign…
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Robert Andrews
May 5, 2008 2:46 PM
Blog platform LiveJournal‘s new Russian owners are endeavouring to make the site more open by appointing some of their users to their advisory board. LiveJournal admits it stepped in it in March when it deleted some basic accounts, provoking a user backlash. It announced that no account created after March…
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Robert Andrews
Apr 18, 2008 3:29 AM
Veteran blog host LiveJournal has joined the wave of social media sites trying to win larger audiences by opening a formal developer effort. Launched last night, LJ Labs will usher in APIs and support for Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial application platform and, I’m told, includes some of the first products…
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