Will Yahoo! aquire Six Apart, who recently bought Livejournal?
Will we soon be inundated with targeted pay per click ads like Google’s blogger users? Will something that has been largely user supported and free to most everyone, turn into a tool for profit, and internet domination?
Here are the reasons why all this might happen, and soon.
http://www.internetstockblog.com/2005/01/yahoo_lacks_a_b.html
Granted making money is good, but I wonder how many LJ’ers this will piss off. Would Yahoo! even continue to develop the opensource Livejournal product? Yahoo! should just develop their own blog platform, maybe even just partner with Six Apart, and use the livejournal code to build their money machine. If Microsoft can pimp out 1.5 million users, from thin air in the last 2 months or so for their blog platform, why can’t Yahoo!? Yahoo! go look elsewhere.
I can only hope we don’t get whored out in these ways.
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