Whatever whips Pininfarin we have not stuffed “Bentley”, my mother will not sit behind his wheel, even for nothing: it is not clear where for such a monster to take parts, where the service, and sorry to spend 10 thousand dollars a year for CASCO insurance. The same applies to blog hosting. Someone needs full access to leverage, for such people there is WordPress. Someone needs a community with a ready-made audience, this is LiveJournal. Someone needs to never think about anything in his blog, welcome to Blogs @ Mail.Ru.
On October 18, at a press conference, we will explain the meaning of our deal with SixApart. But we will not say a word about our possible deals with LiveInternet, MySpace or Mamba.
As part of my cooperation with Yandex, I signed a non-disclosure agreement half a year ago, which prevents me from answering this question competently. Therefore, I can only recommend you to ask these questions to the right people in Yandex (Ushakov, Volozh, Ivanov, another Ivanov, Volnukhin). For my part, as the CBO of the SUP, I can say this: I hope that the blog hosting of “Yandex” will be a serious competitor to LiveJournal. Otherwise, I will have to think that the success of LJ cannot be repeated. I, as a CBO company managing a brand and service of LiveJournal in Russia, do not like this idea.
Hybrid online media, where professional author's news and opinions of bloggers are packed in one bottle, have yet to be created. I could do this, but the SUP takes up too much of my time and energy, so I'm out of the game. I really like Deniski's initiatives. Let's see how Lech Andreev will answer him.
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