{"id":2237,"date":"2009-01-08T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2009-01-08T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T16:10:18","slug":"end-of-livejournal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/08\/end-of-livejournal\/","title":{"rendered":"End of LiveJournal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like LiveJournal <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.gawker.com\/5124184\/the-russian-bear-slashes-a-social-network\">might be on its way out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and offered them <a href=\"http:\/\/xb95.livejournal.com\/635394.html\">no severance<\/a>, we&#8217;re told.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers \u00e2\u20ac\u201d which speaks to a website to be left on life support.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s entirely unsurprising &#8211; there are only so many investors in the world willing trade something for nothing &#8211; but it&#8217;s still a bit sad.\u00c2\u00a0 LiveJournal &#8211; started in 1999 &#8211; can lay claim to being part of the foundation upon which online social networking was built.\u00c2\u00a0 Further, it provides the infrastructure on which a number of unique shared-interest communities depend (however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogpi.net\/the-day-the-soapblox-network-died\">that sort of ecological frailty is not a good idea<\/a>).\u00c2\u00a0 I hope that its users can find a new home (preferably one that doesn&#8217;t depend on an unsustainable business model).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like LiveJournal might be on its way out: The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and offered them no severance, we&#8217;re told. [ . . . ] The company&#8217;s product managers and engineers were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}