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LiveJournal Says Goodbye to Unique Account Structure

readwriteweb.com — LiveJournal is no longer allowing new users to sign up for Basic level accounts, which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile.SUP, the Russian company that recently acquired LiveJournal, angered a substantial number of its users last week by instituting the policy before discussing it publicly.

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  • marshallk, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Post includes quotes from pissed off LiveJournal Advisory Committee members, including founder and now Google OpenSocial leader Brad Fitzpatrick and social network scholar danah boyd. Oooh are they mad. Meanwhile, a cool business model is gone for the rest of us.
  • marshallk, on 03/24/2008, -0/+1Correction, I was wrong - Brad Fitzpatrick isn't leading OpenSocial - he just works at Google and is a leader of things generally. Post revised.

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