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LJ has changed hands, new CEO & vision?
Under Ex-Googler CEO, LiveJournal Gets A Revamp, Promises New Services, Apps And More In 2014 | TechCrunch
Specific line of interest here: Though the company wouldn’t speak to its revenue specifics, it would say that currently half of revenues come from user payments related to promotion of posts and premium features. LiveJournal also runs some ( Read more... ) -
PSA: malware in LJ's ads
I reported the issue to LJ support four days ago, and got a non-helpful answer then and have been seeing other similar reports pile up in the support forum since ( Read more... ) -
Changes are coming
Over in ruljautonews we have a translation of igrick's latest entry where he details some upcoming changes to advertising on LJ. Specifically, a modified form of the self-promo block that's already available on the Cyrillic homepage will be made available to all journal owners, with all proceeds from that block going to the journal owner. And buried in the ( Read more... ) -
AdRiver?
My Ghostery add-on is telling me that LiveJournal is now using a tracker from some site called AdRiver. The information Ghostery give me about it (their page on it is here: http://www.ghostery.com/apps/adriver ) tells me it's a Russian ad servicing and analytics community ( Read more... ) -
Driving Revenue still directing links to the wrong places
jfs has discovered links that end up entirely where they're not supposed to be:
http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/
http://www.wwf.org.uk/
Clicking on them in Camino, with all JavaScript enabled, opens up a new window (instead of going to the ( Read more... ) -
New affiliate script location
The old affiliate script was at ( Read more... ) -
Driving Revenue: back in the affiliate saddle?
There's a comment in the current news post pointing out a new Driving Revenue script. You may remember the previous, flawed implementation.
The script is: http://l-stat.livejournal.com/js/pagestats/DR_v4u.jsThe script is now: Read more... ) -
Oh yes they did
This ad-related news has been around a couple of weeks, but for the record: ohnotheydidnt has become an officialish LJ community, with one of the maintainers becoming LJ staff. This also means that ohnotheydidnt now shows ads.
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Hijacking affiliate links
I've been given a heads up that has done some excellent sleuthing and investigation into hijacked LJ affiliate links:
What is LJ doing to my links?
What is LJ doing to my links? Part 2
What is LJ doing to my links? Part 3
Expect this post to be update through the day as I find out more and come up with a good summary.
ETA: No good summary, but ( Read more... )
