This does seem like an odd announcement. What is the “rest of the story”? As someone mentioned, the buyer seems more like the sort of nothing company that would be a seller to a more known company, not a buyer from a more known company.

Or were the Live Journal members just too much of a bunch of jerks for Six Apart’s customer support to handle?

Did Six Apart need funds, and the next round would have diluted the Trotts out of company control, so they decided to sell off assets while they wait for the elusive acquisition?

At any rate, there is some story here that is not being told.

Yeh, russian servers are full of viruses and we also have bears wandering in data rooms.
Big scary hairy bears… ;)

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Alex Parkhomenko

do some more digging on this. no one’s put together the real story on SixApart yet, and there’s certainly a bigger picture piece to be told (with #’s, strategy, exec profiles, etc).

isn’t this territory that needs to be covered?

6A isn’t a fly-by-night company, but they’ve flown under the radar of either strong praise or criticism for far too long.

as a user & fan of TypePad (and to a lesser extent Vox), i’m flabbergasted something hasn’t happened in their space. Yahoo & SixApart would seem like a perfect marriage, why hasn’t it happened? (2 years ago, for that matter?)

there’s got to be more there there.