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.
Oh, absolutely, sorry--they seem to have a habit of buying companies with decent staff, shutting the product down, then putting those staff onto other pet projects. I'm not sure they realised just how vociferous the userbase on LJ would be, etc.
Really? How could they buy a company and not know what people use it for?
I have no clue, but either Mena was talking complete drivel whenever she was asked about LJ, or she really had no clue--we're all teenage girls talking about girlstuff, etc; no_lj_ads did a good job of documenting a lot of her sayings in the early days, it really was quite poor.
And when she was doing publicity for Vox, she was talking about the privacy options and similar as if it was a radically new idea that no one had ever done before. If your new product's main selling point is something a different product you have already does better, there's something wrong somewhere.
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Date: 2009-11-19 09:01 pm (UTC)Oh, absolutely, sorry--they seem to have a habit of buying companies with decent staff, shutting the product down, then putting those staff onto other pet projects. I'm not sure they realised just how vociferous the userbase on LJ would be, etc.
I have no clue, but either Mena was talking complete drivel whenever she was asked about LJ, or she really had no clue--we're all teenage girls talking about girlstuff, etc;
And when she was doing publicity for Vox, she was talking about the privacy options and similar as if it was a radically new idea that no one had ever done before. If your new product's main selling point is something a different product you have already does better, there's something wrong somewhere.