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The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network [LiveJournal]
valleywag.gawker.com - 1/6/2009
The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network [LiveJournal]
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The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees — and offered them no...

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From the Heart of Europe:  Time to back up, folks

Dancing Bears, Painted Wings:  eman!SMASH

Club Jade:  Something’s actually rotten at Livejournal this time

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Time to back up, folks
From the Heart of Europe — Alarming news (though other reports say that it's "only" 13 employees, ie just under half the total workforce). LJ Archive has stopped working for me - I think my archive is too big - so I'm using this.

eman!SMASH
Dancing Bears, Painted Wings — It was overcrowded again on the train this morning (note to self: buy more rescue remedy so that you don't feel like puking after 15 minutes of someone in your space bubble), and I'd just managed to sort of shake the residual cranky when I learned that LJ just laid off the bulk of their SF offices. All hail our new Russian overlords. I swear if there were an alternative . . . but I just like the structure here too much. Regular blogs don't offer the same security and comment/interaction features, and facebook is so not for me. ...

Something’s actually rotten at Livejournal this time
Club Jade — ... about naked Harry Potters were much ado about nothing…. But Livejournal has finally done something to make me worry about the future of the site: They’ve laid off their product managers and engineers, according to Valleywag. Is the end nigh? Or will LJ’s large user base find some sort of salvation? ...

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