About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: WikiWikiWeb, LiveJournal, Slash, Bugzilla, MARC, Comparison of sites using the LiveJournal codebase, Ikonboard, TWiki, SpamAssassin, Movable Type, Perl Object Environment, Greymatter, Catalyst, BioPerl, BioMOBY, ProBoards, Squeezebox Server, Big Medium, Cowsay, BackupPC, Scoop, WebGUI, LedgerSMB, OTRS, Frozen Bubble, Request Tracker, Infobot, Strawberry Perl, AWStats, Bricolage, Webmin, SQL-Ledger, Majordomo, Fink, Dada Mail, Padre, Debian bug tracking system, Perlbal, SVK, W3Perl, Dancer, GCstar, UBB.classic, POPFile, Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy, NTP pool, Plack, GCfilms, Website Meta Language, IComic, CGIProxy, Mason, Qpsmtpd, Xuheki, Perl Shell, Bonsai, V6, Perl Archive Toolkit, Maypole framework, VERTCON, Vipul's Razor, AxKit, DJabberd, Sprog, Sorune, Linklint, World Wide Mart, Reaction. Excerpt: LiveJournal (LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal or diary. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. In January 2005, blogging software company Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, the company that operated LiveJournal, from Fitzpatrick. Six Apart sold LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP in 2007, but continued to develop the site by the San Francisco-based company LiveJournal, Inc. In January 2009 LiveJournal laid off some employees and moved product development and design functions to Russia. The unit of social networking on LiveJournal is quaternary (with four possible states of connection between one user and another). Two users can have no relationship, they can list each other as friends mutually, or either can "friend" the other without reciprocation. On Liv...