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." Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is the name of a weblog site allowing Internet users to keep an online journal or diary. ... Bradley Brad Fitzpatrick (born February 5, 1980), often seen on the Internet under the nickname bradfitz, is an American programmer. ...

Danga Interactive was originally incorporated as Bradfitz, Inc. on August 27, 1999. The name was changed to its current form on August 1, 2002. August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... August 1st is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In January 2005, Danga Interactive was bought out by Six Apart, a blogging software company [1][2]. 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). 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15 Ruth Warrick • 14 Rudolph Moshammer Recent deaths Ongoing events • Tsunami relief... Six Apart Ltd. ...

The company was headquartered in Aloha, Oregon prior to its sale, but is now in Six Apart's offices in San Francisco, California. Aloha is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community located in Washington County, Oregon. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... The downtown San Francisco skyline, looking east from the central part of the city. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...

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
• Block Markup Language (BML), a server-side markup language and templating system (like Mason, or ePerl, or ....)
• S2, an object-oriented programming language
• memcached, an open source cache tool for web applications
• Perlbal, a high-performance reverse proxy and web server
• MogileFS, a distributed filesystem
• OpenID, a distributed identity system

LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is the name of a weblog site allowing Internet users to keep an online journal or diary. ... A journal (through French from late Latin diurnalis, daily) is a daily record of events or business. ... The first use of the term weblog. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Software programs or applications that are on a local or remote server are called Server-Side programs Categories: Computer stubs ... A specialized markup language using SGML is used to write the electronic version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ... S2 (Style System 2) is an object-oriented programming language developed in the late 1990s by Brad Fitzpatrick, Martin Atkins, and others for the picture-hosting website code FotoBilder as well as the online journalling service LiveJournal in order to allow users full control over the appearance of their pages. ... Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a computer programming paradigm in which a software system is modeled as a set of objects that interact with each other. ... A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... memcached is a distributed memory caching system that was originally developed by Danga Interactive for LiveJournal. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... This article is about the computer term. ... In software engineering, a web application is an application delivered to users from a web server over a network such as the World Wide Web or an intranet. ... OpenID is a simple single sign-on mechanism advanced by Brad Fitzpatrick of LiveJournal. ...

External links

• Danga Interactive - official website
• Corporation registration data from the Oregon Secretary of State's office
• LiveJournal