Weblog firm Six Apart (the company behind Typepad, which made our list of 100 most useful websites) has gone on the acquisition trail and bought Danga, owners of LiveJournal.
The press release states that "As of today, the combined user base of both companies exceeds 6.5 million users, with thousands more added daily", while SixApart director Mena Trott says that LiveJournal is a vibrant blogging community (even if they don't call themselves bloggers) and that she wants to squash rumours.
[SixApart] have spent the last half year thinking about how to be a successful company and still stay true to the essence of what we believe in - people should have the ability to inexpensively publish and communicate with the best tools possible and we should have the ability to sustain ourselves as a business.
The FAQs continue by saying "our plans do not include removing the free level, plastering the sites with ads, owning user content, etc.".
An interesting move, though not an entirely bizarre one. But what will this really mean for weblogging in general, if anything?
