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Livejournal has been bought by Six Apart, the folks who make Moveable Type and Typepad.
Hard to tell what the eventual impact of this will be. I'm generally averse to all business mergers, as studies have shown 80% of them fail -- they're a terrible business move. I suspect![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bradfitz, the founder of LJ, will probably be looking for a new job within a year (although that may be the point -- this may have been a way for him to get out of LJ gracefully).
Also, the Moveable Type folks seem to do a good product, as the Nielsen-Haydens will attest (among many others).
Still. 80% is a hard hill to climb.
Hard to tell what the eventual impact of this will be. I'm generally averse to all business mergers, as studies have shown 80% of them fail -- they're a terrible business move. I suspect
bradfitz, the founder of LJ, will probably be looking for a new job within a year (although that may be the point -- this may have been a way for him to get out of LJ gracefully).Also, the Moveable Type folks seem to do a good product, as the Nielsen-Haydens will attest (among many others).
Still. 80% is a hard hill to climb.
