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Six Apart buys Live Journal

Q. What is LiveJournal?
A. LiveJournal is an online community organized around personal journals. LiveJournal is run by Danga, a Portland, Oregon-based company founded by Brad Fitzpatrick in 1999. The company has helped fuel the rapid growth of weblogging by offering consumers both free and paid subscriptions to its easy to use personal publishing blogging tool, built on open source software. Every week, over 860,000 users update their blogs. LiveJournal’s users are predominately in their teens and twenties, younger than users of Six Apart’s other products.

Q. Why did Six Apart acquire LiveJournal?
A. We think LiveJournal is a great community and a great company founded and run by a really talented team that is just as fanatical about blogging and online communication as we are. They have done an amazing job growing and supporting their online community and we think there is a lot we can learn from each other.