My boss, Christian, has a good overview of the Six Apart purchase of LiveJournal.
The blogging community is consolidating. Six Apart acquired LiveJournal! today and to me it looks like a perfect move for both. Six Apart has for a long time been thinking how to add users and yet retain high level service users demand in a paid service like TypePad. Creating a free level could upset TypePad users which wants solid quality and great service. This is where LiveJournal come in handy. Their free service will complement TypePad paid offering and build a user base at a totally different rate than what is possible with a paid service.
Link: ChristianLindholm.com: Six Apart helps consolidate blog market.
Hi Charlie,
I have been brimming over about this for several days now and wanted to comment over at Wasabi about it, as I think this would be a perfect fit for LifeBlog as well.
The more I use LifeBlog the more possibilities I see for community and integration thereof that goes beyond the blog (much like Ray’s desire to post everything but with more control, options and possiblities or the “snaparazzi” camera phone community in NYC). The Live Journal folks would take to a sharing of photos and documentation in a mobile device that would post directly to their Live Journal community, as LifeBlog is a direct fit to their practice.
I would love to see LifeBlog and Nokia make a seamless interface that extends beyond Typepad users into Live Journal and to us die-hard Movable Type geek-types.
I have a drafted email waiting in my queue to set a bug into a developer’s ear / typing fingers at the SixApart ProNet mailing list to make a plugin to MT from LifeBlog. But if your dev folk do it, I’ll pay for it, as I don’t like Flickr so much. I prefer to host my content on my own server.
smiles, jen ;o)