Built in reading nowadays seems to be a popular feature; Tumblr has it, and so do quite a few microblogs, and even WP.com has a version...
Granular privacy can in a way be accomplished with other platforms that allow you to run multiple private blogs from one account, IMHO, so even that nowadays is not a really unique feature. (and in some ways, I think it's a better way of doing it?)
Really? How could they buy a company and not know what people use it for? Isn't the whole reason why they bought LJ was to get the staff who knew how to make such features?
What do you mean by "couldn't get away with that"? It seems to me they still have quite a bit of the ex-LJ staff still working there. Anyway, they seem to have made out rather well, because they sold LJ for a substantial amount more than they paid for it.
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Date: 2009-11-19 08:43 pm (UTC)Granular privacy can in a way be accomplished with other platforms that allow you to run multiple private blogs from one account, IMHO, so even that nowadays is not a really unique feature. (and in some ways, I think it's a better way of doing it?)
Really? How could they buy a company and not know what people use it for? Isn't the whole reason why they bought LJ was to get the staff who knew how to make such features?
What do you mean by "couldn't get away with that"? It seems to me they still have quite a bit of the ex-LJ staff still working there. Anyway, they seem to have made out rather well, because they sold LJ for a substantial amount more than they paid for it.