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Danga Interactive

Danga Interactive is a Software and Internet company most widely known for its LiveJournal service. Danga was founded by Brad Fitzpatrick, who also created LiveJournal. The company s slogan is We make cool stuff.

Danga Interactive was originally incorporated as Bradfitz, Inc. on August 27 1999. The name was changed to its current form on August 1 2002.

In January 2005, Danga Interactive was bought out by Six Apart, a blogging software company [http://www.livejournal.com/users/news/82926.html][http://www.sixapart.com/press/weblogging_software_leader_six_apar.shtml]. Danga remains a legal entity of its own, albeit a division of Six Apart. Six Apart then renamed Danga Interactive (an Oregon corporation) to LiveJournal Inc. (a California corporation).

The company was headquartered in Aloha, Oregon, Oregon prior to its sale, but is now in Six Apart s offices in San Francisco, California, California.

Danga s projects include:

LiveJournal, a popular journal hosting service (weblog)

The LiveJournal Server, which is licensed under the GPL

picpix.com, a photo hosting service

FotoBilder, the open source software that runs picpix.com and pics.livejournal.com

Better Markup Language (BML), a server-side markup language and templating system (like Mason, ePerl, etc.)

S2 programming language, an Object orientation programming language

Memcached, an open source caching tool for web application

Perlbal, a high-performance reverse proxy and web server

MogileFS, a distributed filesystem

OpenID, a distributed identity system

=External links=

[http://www.danga.com/ Danga Interactive] - official website

[http://egov.sos.state.or.us/br/pkg_web_name_srch_inq.show_detlp_be_rsn=598971&p_srce=BR_INQ&p_print=FALSE Corporation registration data] from the Oregon Secretary of State s office

[http://www.livejournal.com/ LiveJournal]