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Poll #1583 What aspects of social media interest you?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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What would you be interested in hearing more about?

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commentary on Dreamwidth events (news, features, etc)
21 (95.5%)

commentary on general social networking/media news
19 (86.4%)

commentary on Tumblr and/or Posterous
6 (27.3%)

commentary on Facebook
12 (54.5%)

commentary on Livejournal events (news, features, etc)
17 (77.3%)

commentary on Wordpress
6 (27.3%)

other (specify in comments)
2 (9.1%)

LJ started the year with six U.S. based executives, all of them are gone now

In the beginning of 2009, there were six U.S. based Livejournal executives listed on the Livejournalinc homepage: by 2/10, three were gone from the listing on the webpage.

By September, two more executives were no longer listed. And now, in October, the last of the six, Tupshin Harper, was let go by SUP.

So, now LJ has, if the webpage is to be believed now has around twelve employees in the US.

The person who seems to be in charge of U.S. operations now is Anjelika Petrochenko whose title is US Business Development Director. She is quoted this article, which I mentioned in my previous post, and also appears in the press release from AdNectar.

It's hard to find many mentions of LJ in the social media news, unfortunately. Facebook, Twitter, and to a lesser extent Posterous and Tumblr are mentioned far much more. The stuff about the layoffs (in January) and about the partnership with Google Ads made the news, but otherwise, new features and such at LJ attract little notice, despite its large size. Undoubtedly, LJ is covered in the Russian social media blogosphere, but sadly, I can't speak Russian. Could that, though, be where the most relevant commentary on the future development of LJ exists? Using LJ seems to be a different experience in Russia, both in terms of content and features, although I can't really fully understand the features because of the language barrier. (More on that later, if anyone is interested.)