Hello, I was asked to cross-post this list of advertisers that I was keeping track of (I no longer have a Plus Account).

The list is here (additional advertiser links in comments).

Announced in lj_ads today.

spreadshirt

"In addition to running a very successful banner campaign with us, Spreadshirt has just started a new Sponsored Community on LiveJournal. They want their community to be a place with current Spreadshirt users can share information, designs and tips and where new people can discover what Spreadshirt is all about ( Read more... )

Not to dig myself any deeper, but I'm really sorry about posting the OT entry earlier--I was in a hurry and accidentally selected a community with Semagic without even realizing it, when I meant to post to my own LJ. So sorry to clutter up the community, and thanks to whomever deleted the entry before I could bother anyone else with it.

The New York Times published an article about advertising on social network sites- there is no mention of livejournal, incidentally, but I think it's an interesting read.

Joining the Party, Eager to Make FriendsAdvertisers hope to use social networking sites to get the attention of tens of millions of young people who increasingly avoid television ( Read more... )

EDIT: I don't know the details, but insomnia has been unsuspended as of 7:43 p.m., CDT. -- D.

iceblink reports:

Mark's account insomnia has just been suspended without notice as a result of his efforts to determine who was behind some of the phony "sock puppet" accounts that have been used to post content to their sponsored communities. Some of the information he ( Read more... )

foxfirefey has posted here reporting that scienceofsleep is using Google Analytics, which I understand to be a business oriented traffic stats service. Interestingly, no other user-based communities or journals are allowed to use something like that... There's some dialogue with a staff member going on in the comments that's really worth reading, too.

If you've discovered a sponsored community, sponsored feature, or plus account advertiser who is not featured in our userinfo list, please leave a comment at this post. Include the advertiser or community's name and parent company if applicable, and whether they are a community, feature, or plus advertiser. Your comment will be deleted after the ( Read more... )

"I care about LiveJournal a lot .... The reason I sold LiveJournal, to retell an old story, is because I was too stressed doing LiveJournal alone (it's a ton of work), and I was on the verge of shutting it all down. I sold it to the least evil company I could find..."

Just like you did with FreeVote.com, and almost did with LiveJournal, back when it ( Read more... )

Corporations are defined by Wikipedia as "a fictional person, a legal person, or a moral person (as opposed to a natural person); United States law recognises this as corporate personhood. Under such a doctrine (traditionally seen as a legal fiction), a corporation enjoys many of the rights and obligations of individual persons, such as the ability ( Read more... )

I would really love to start making a collection of graphics and icons that help get the message of boycotting and anti-sponsorship across- part of the reason we're doing this is to make a splash and encourage others to do the same. I've already seen a few users with large text statements in their profiles about boycotting, which is great. If you ( Read more... )