LiveJournal for sale: SOLD!

[angledge]

I, for one, welcome our new Six Apart overlords!

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By Ryan Naraine
January 5, 2005

Six Apart Ltd., the small software firm founded by childhood sweethearts Ben and Mena Trott, is set to make a big splash with the acquisition of Danga Interactive Inc.'s LiveJournal blogging network.

The deal, which will be announced on Thursday, involves an undisclosed amount of cash and stock, eWEEK.com has confirmed.

The acquisition gives the San Mateo, Calif.-based Six Apart a major boost in the blog publishing business and a legitimate shot at staying relevant in the face of stiff competition from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Source, lifted from d4b.

Comments

[marasca.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's an export function: http://www.livejournal.com/export.bml

I tried it a while ago and it didn't do quite what I wanted, but it's certainly better than losing everything.

[angledge.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I've made a backup, but it stinks. I hope LJ stays functional. After all, I have the LJDQ to think of!

[marasca.livejournal.com]

If half of what the LJ homepage post says is true, I think we'll be okay (at least for a while).

When I tried making a backup a few months ago (I really wanted to make a print copy to put with all my paper diaries) I remember thinking that maybe if I knew how to use XML is would be useful, but formatting it nicely by hand would take forever.