Danga Interactive is a software and Internet

Internet

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 company most widely known for its LiveJournal

LiveJournal

LiveJournal 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....

 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

Brad Fitzpatrick

Bradley Joseph "Brad" Fitzpatrick , is an American programmer. He is best known as the creator of LiveJournal and is the author of a variety of free software projects such as memcached....

, 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

Six Apart

Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox. The company also is the former owner of LiveJournal. Six Apart is headquartered in Tokyo and is planning to open a new, U.S.-based office in New York...

, the makers of Movable Type

Movable Type

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on September 3, 2001; version 1.0 was publicly released on October 8, 2001. On 12 December 2007, Movable Type was relicensed as free software under the GNU General Public License...

. 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

Aloha, Oregon

Aloha is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the population was 49,425.-History:...

, Oregon

Oregon

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, prior to its sale, but is now in Six Apart's offices in San Francisco

San Francisco, California

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, California

California

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.

On December 2, 2007, Six Apart announced it was selling LiveJournal to SUP

SUP Fabrik

SUP is an international online media company, founded in Moscow in mid-2006 by Andrew Paulson and Alexander Mamut...

, a Russian media company that had been licensing the LiveJournal brand and software for use in Russia.

Projects

• LiveJournal
  LiveJournal
  LiveJournal 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....
  
  , a popular journal
  Diary
  A diary is a record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. A personal diary may include a person's experiences, and/or thoughts or feelings, including comment on current events outside the writer's direct experience. Someone...
  
   hosting service (weblog)
• The LiveJournal Server, which is licensed under the GPL
  GNU General Public License
  The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....
  
  
• picpix.com, a photo hosting service
• FotoBilder, the open source
  Open source
  The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
  
   software that runs picpix.com and pics.livejournal.com
• Better Markup Language (BML), a server-side
  Server-side
  Server-side refers to operations that are performed by the server in a client–server relationship in computer networking.Typically, a server is a software program, such as a web server, that runs on a remote server, reachable from a user's local computer or workstation...
  
   markup language
  Markup language
  A markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text. The idea and terminology evolved from the "marking up" of manuscripts, i.e. the revision instructions by editors, traditionally written with a blue pencil on authors' manuscripts...
  
   and templating system (like Mason
  Mason (Perl)
  HTML::Mason, or Mason for short, is a web application framework written in Perl. It is distributed on CPAN.Its features make it a suitable backend for high load sites serving dynamic content, such as online newspapers or database driven e-commerce sites. The author claims that several popular web...
  
  , ePerl, etc.)
• S2, an object-oriented
  Object-oriented programming
  Object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm using "objects" – data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions – to design applications and computer programs. Programming techniques may include features such as data abstraction,...
  
   programming language
  Programming language
  A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
  
  
• memcached
  Memcached
  In computing, memcached is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal, but is now used by many other sites. It is often used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce the...
  
  , an open source
  Open source
  The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
  
   cache
  Cache
  In computer engineering, a cache is a component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere...
  
   tool for web application
  Web application
  A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...
  
  s
• Perlbal
  Perlbal
  Perlbal is a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and web server. Perlbal is maintained by a group connected to Danga Interactive. The program is in common use by large web sites to distribute the load over a number of servers....
  
  , a high-performance reverse proxy and web server
• MogileFS, a distributed filesystem
• OpenID
  OpenID
  OpenID is an open standard that describes how users can be authenticated in a decentralized manner, eliminating the need for services to provide their own ad hoc systems and allowing users to consolidate their digital identities...
  
  , a distributed identity system

External links

• Danga Interactive - official website
• Corporation registration data from the Oregon Secretary of State's office
• LiveJournal