Six Apart Acquires Live Journal

Six Apart Acquires Live Journal: “

6A buys LJ, according to Om’s exclusive. Simply makes sense. The leading blogging tool vendor gets a massive user base (6.5 million users combined total — with 1.4% of 5.6M LJ’s generating $2.325M/yr); and a team with experience serving them at scale with richer community features.

Will be fascinating to see if this brings Blogspace and Journalspace together.

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(Via Ross Mayfield’s Weblog.)

yes…. livejournal makes money. strange isn’t it.