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Six Apart is selling its LiveJournal blogging platform to Russian media company SUP

Blogging pioneer Six Apart is breaking apart from LiveJournal, another trailblazer that helped bring online journals to the masses.

The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart’s sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. The financial terms aren’t being disclosed.

Huh. Interesting.

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6 Comments

  1. Don’t worry; from what I hear, the only change will be renaming “Friends Page” to “Comrades.”

  2. It is all about the “bling.”

  3. Yeah, I can’t say I’m really enthused about the prospect of our accounts being sold to Russia. The only worse option would have been China.
    <ObYakov>
    In Soviet Russia, LJ blogs YOU!
    </ObYakov>

  4. I may quit keeping an online journal entirely.

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