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Is this a sign of a coming blogocalypse?
LiveJournal
LiveJournal, the social networking site that’s home to countless bloggers, scanlators and slashfic writers, has cut a significant portion of its staff — although the actual number is unclear.
An initial report said the company had let go about 20 of its 28 employees, but a statement from LiveJournal claims there are “about a dozen” layoffs, amounting to about one-fifth of the staff.
Valleywag reports that the social-media pioneer laid off all of its product managers and engineers, “leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers — which speaks to a website to be left on life support.”
Founded in 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick as a way to keep his friends from high school updated about his activities, LiveJournal was among the first blogging services and social networks. The company was bought in 2005 by blogging-software company Six Apart and then sold two years later to Russian online-media company SUP.
According to the statement from LiveJournal, the company’s servers, technical operations, administration and customer-service teams will remain in the United States. However, global product development and design now will be coordinated out of the Moscow office.
I should’ve seen this coming when my RSS feed for Scans Daily stopped working …
- January 6, 2009 @ 11:03 AM by Kevin Melrose
One Comment
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January 6, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Wordpress is where it’s at. But it is the sign of the times, everybody will feel the pinch. The next two months will be hard, credit card payments are due for Christmas. When companies like Quebecor World are still under protection, you have to worry for the comic book industry. Sure there will be other players who will take their place as there was before them. We just have to weather the storm and hope for the best. As long as the publishers give us less rubbish and more quality products, publishers like Kitchen Sink can be a thing of the past. They have to trim the bottom line to stay afloat.