5 posts and columns on LiveJournal

Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal Back Up and Running After Attacks

in Social on August 6, 2009 at 9:35 am PT

Twitter, Facebook and LiveJournal are back up after being felled earlier this morning by denial-of-service attacks that rendered them inaccessible. It’s not yet known if the attacks were related, although, as a LiveJournal spokesperson notes, “it would be a huge coincidence” if they weren’t.
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in News on December 3, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

In Soviet Russia, Blog Writes You

in News on December 3, 2007 at 8:27 am PT

Having blown its chance to develop LiveJournal into what could well have been an early Facebook, the site’s owner, Six Apart, agreed yesterday to sell it to Moscow-based online media company SUP. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, though Kommersant reports the deal to be worth some $30 million. The sale comes about a year after Six [...]

Microsoft Service Lets You Create A Nice Blog, But Limits Tweaking

in Personal Technology on April 21, 2005 at 12:01 am PT

Walt tests Microsoft’s just-launched blogging service, MSN Spaces and says the service is a good, basic blogging service — if somewhat limited.