LiveJournal

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LiveJournal is a community publishing platform which was started in 1999. LiveJournal combines platform and social media. LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick. In January 2005, blogging Software Company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick.

On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP, a Russian media company that had been licensing the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia. On April 22, 2009, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev opened his own blog on the LiveJournal service

Features

Each journal entry has its own web page, which includes the comments left by other users. In addition, each user has a journal page, which shows all of his or her most recent journal entries, along with links to the comment pages.
Its “friends list” provides various syndication and privacy services as described below. All users have friends page, which comprises recent journal entries of the people on his or her friends list.
LiveJournal allows users to customize their accounts by allowing journal templates to be modified by members. Users may upload graphical avatars, or userpics. The paid account holders are given full access to S2 management and more userpics, as well as other features.
Each user also has a ‘User Info’ page, which contains data like contact information, a biography, images, list of friends, interests, communities and even schools.
It allows "voice posts", though it’s available for its premium users only, where one can call into the system and record an entry.
Currently LiveJournal allows five account levels: basic (comprising approximately 95% of the network); plus (sponsored with advertising); "early adopters" who were registered prior to 2000; paid and permanent. Permanent accounts are normally not available to the "average user”.
The social networking on LiveJournal is available in four possible states of connection between one user and another. You can have no relationship, they mutual friends, or one can "friend" the other without reciprocation.

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