Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal

Read all about it here, at Six Log: Six Apart Acquires LiveJournal.

Six Apart, the company I work for, has just announced the acquisition of LiveJournal, another blogging service.  Six Apart now has three main blogging products:

• Movable Type: for companies, organisations and enthusiasts with their own webserver (also available in Dutch)
• TypePad: a hosted weblogging service for demanding webloggers (available in Belgium and the Netherlands too)
• LiveJournal: a community oriented, diary/weblogging service, mostly used by a younger audience

This is pretty big news, as suddenly our number of users has skyrocketed overnight.  According to LiveJournal's raw statistics page, there are 2.862 accounts in Belgium and 13.863 in the Netherlands.  But of course this pales in comparison to the 2.812.130 in the United States.

Although it doesn't look like I'll be working much on LiveJournal related stuff personally (the current LJ staff will keep doing that, of course), let me welcome all Benelux LiveJournal users to the Six Apart familiy!