Of course, the secret of SUP is not disclosed. It is clear that neither
all these wonderful people are needed to “improve” the localization of LJ, nor to create a local branch of the abuse-team, or even to support a more or less working ljplus.ru.
SUP creates a smart, powerful technical team with literate people in charge (Komarov, Ishkov). They are looking for programmers with the knowledge of rather rare things like perlbal and MogileFS, which, nevertheless, keep modern livejournal.com. They
invite the authors of the modules with CPAN
to work . They bring Fitzpatrick - almost the sole creator of the LJ engine - not for one day, but for a whole week.
At the same time, they hire an extremely busy, but very experienced Nosik, along with energetic and talented Zasursky, who, obviously, can and will set for this team the tasks corresponding to its level.
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It is easy to understand that Paulson should beckon (at least some) of Murdoch's laurels. My guess: SUP will do Russian
MySpace , i.e. stuffed with blogs sponsored by multimedia and targeted advertising for
the widest masses . And the announced partnership with SiksAparta to care
for Cyrillic LJ is secondary. You can’t invest millions of dollars in it.