Danga Interactive is a software and Internet company most widely known for its LiveJournal service. The company's slogan is "We make cool stuff." The company was founded under the name Bradfitz, Inc., on August 27, 1999, by Brad Fitzpatrick, who also created LiveJournal. The name was later changed to Danga on August 1, 2002.
In January 2005, Danga Interactive was bought out by Six Apart, the makers of Movable Type. [1] Danga remains a legal entity of its own, albeit a division of Six Apart. Six Apart then renamed Danga Interactive (an Oregon corporation) to LiveJournal Inc. (a California corporation).
The company was headquartered in Aloha, Oregon, prior to its sale, but is now in Six Apart's offices in San Francisco, California.
On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP, a Russian media company that had been licensing the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia.
Projects
- LiveJournal, a popular journal hosting service (weblog)
- The LiveJournal Server, which is licensed under the GPL
- picpix.com, a photo hosting service
- FotoBilder, the open source software that runs picpix.com and pics.livejournal.com
- Better Markup Language (BML), a server-side markup language and templating system (like Mason, ePerl, etc.)
- S2, an object-oriented programming language
- memcached, an open source cache tool for web applications
- Perlbal, a high-performance reverse proxy and web server
- MogileFS, a distributed filesystem
- OpenID, a distributed identity system
References
- ^ "Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal!". LiveJournal. 1 January 2005. http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/82926.html.
External links
- Danga Interactive - official website
- Corporation registration data from the Oregon Secretary of State's office
- LiveJournal
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