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LiveJournal Makes Deep Personnel Cuts

For a short time there, it had started to feel like we were getting away from layoff stories; tales of 20 or 30 percent cuts stopped popping up every day or so.  Unfortunately, LiveJournal seems to have been hit rather hard, now, as a fresh report has about 71 percent of its employees losing their jobs. (Edit: see update.)

Social Networking A Global Affair

Depending on where you are, MySpace, Facebook, or LinkedIn may be the most popular destination for social networking.

Former Googler Goes To LiveJournal

By this time of year, many ponds have frozen over, but we'll still use the analogy: is it better to be a big fish in a small amount of water or an average-sized fish in a lot of the stuff?  Jason Shellen seems to prefer the first scenario, as the former Googler has jumped to LiveJournal.

Six Apart Sells LiveJournal

In mid-September, Six Apart got a new CEO.  Now it’s getting some new money, because LiveJournal has been sold to SUP, a Russian media company.

LiveJournal Founder Leaves (Probably For Google)

It sounds like Google just got another important employee, but the search giant didn’t simply pluck him out of an unemployement line; instead, it may have pulled Brad Fitzpatrick away from LiveJournal (which he created) and Six Apart.

Plaxo Launches Social Network Pulse

Plaxo launched today its social network, Pulse. Pulse pulls in what they call "people feed" or RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to allow for conversation about the content with your family, friends or co-workers.

LiveJournal Faces Backlash for Account Deletion

LiveJournal faced a user backlash, when it deleted hundreds of communities, as part of its efforts to clean up pedophilia-related discussions. Apparently, the company’s noble efforts included the removal of many fantasy communities where users share sexually-explicit fictional stories.

"Mortified" Six Apart CEO Makes Apologies

All right.  I know there are a lot of passionate LiveJournal users out there, and I know censorship is bad.  But in this case, it was also somewhat funny.  LiveJournal claimed it had blocked access to around 500 journals on the basis that they supported pedophilia - turns out, some of them were just discussing Lolita.

LiveJournal Protest Tops Nielsen List

The most popular blog post of 2006 landed on a LiveJournal blog, while missives from Michelle Malkin, Dave Sifry, and CrooksAndLiars.com ranked among the most linked 100 posts for the past year.

Angry Moms Stage "Nurse-In" At SixApart

Popular blogging site LiveJournal.com and parent company Six Apart have attracted the ire of breastfeeding bloggers after images of breastfeeding were banned from the site. After a letter campaign, "lactivist" mothers staged a "nurse-in" at the Six Apart San Francisco headquarters on Monday.