Update: Six Apart Purchase of Live Journal

Six Apart, the parent company behind hosted blogging service TypePad and publishing platform Movable Type, is about to acquire Live Journal for an undisclosed amount ... ... Six Apart will become one of the largest weblog companies in the world, with nearly 6.5 million users. It also gives the company a very good fighting chance against Google's Blogger and Microsoft's Live Journal (free/paid mixture) are targeted at the more tech-savvy and/or 'committed blogger' audience. Not only that, Six Apart's hot area in 2005. The volume market is with Blogger and MSN Spaces, but the money and enterprise-push potential is with TypePad and Live Journal - all, no doubt, the same revenue-rich areas both Google and Microsoft want to be in sooner or later. In any event, things are moving very fast indeed in the business of blogs. Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog: