GreatestJournal.com is a weblog site allowing Internet users to keep an online journal or diary. As of 22 July 2006, there were almost 1.5 million users and communities. It was founded on 2 September 2003 under the url unlimitedrpg.com, offering a journal site for role-playing. It later changed its name to greatestjournal.com and opened to anyone, as an alternative to LiveJournal, offering for free many of the features which LiveJournal offers only to paying users, such as extra icons, voice posts, and unlimited styles. GreatestJournal operates on LiveJournal's open source server software, but with add-ons such as phpBB forums, video hosting, and a photo gallery called GJPix. In February 2005 one of the biggest ISPs in the world, ThePlanet, started sponsoring the site's hosting. On 20 June 2005, the site surpassed 1,000,000 users. On 23 August 2005 a new video section was launched. GreatestJournal.com allows the indexing of content it fully republishes from RSS feeds of other sites (e.g. boingboing.greatestjournal.com). A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... This article is about the journal as a written medium. ... == c programming[[a--203. ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. ... 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 or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Hi all! Goog directory <a href=http://tajga. ... phpBB is a popular internet forum package written in the PHP programming language. ... A video hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. ... a free Photo blogging site provided by GreatestJournal. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 23 is the 235th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (236th in leap years), with 130 days remaining. ...

Statistics

Much like LiveJournal, DeadJournal and Blurty, users of the service are predominantly female. Females comprise 74.8% of the service, outweighing males at a ratio of nearly 3:1. LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is a virtual community where Internet users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. ... The new DeadJournal logo, introduced July 2, 2005. ... Blurty is a weblog service which allows Internet users to maintain an online journal, or blog. ...

These are site usage statistics, as of July 22, 2006: July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

• 1,493,239 accounts have been created.
• 145,685 accounts are currently active in some way.
• 863,807 accounts have been posted to at least once.
• 67,635 accounts have been posted to in the past 30 days.
• 32,028 accounts have been posted to in the past seven days.
• 9,465 accounts have been posted to in the past 24 hours.

GreatestJournal is most frequently used in the following nations (based on users who declared a nation of residence):

• United States: 419,457 accounts
• United Kingdom: 38,299 accounts
• Canada: 24,047 accounts
• Australia: 6,177 accounts
• Japan: 5,183 accounts
• Finland: 2,544 accounts
• Scotland: 2,245 accounts

Other countries listing greater than 1,000 users are: Philippines, Russia, Germany, Ireland, France, Spain and Mexico. Motto: (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots2 Government  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - UK Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by Kenneth I 843  Area    - Total 78,772 km...

For complete and current statistics, see the GreatestJournal Stats page.

Features

All of the following are free.

• 2000 user icons
• Mood themes and custom styles

All users can customise mood themes and layouts

• Short URL

A subdomain (username.greatestjournal.com) for all userpages.

• Private messaging

Part of the phpBB forum.

• 1GB free photo hosting in the photo gallery, including hotlinking used to be offered, but has now been disabled.
• Videos

Users upload videos to the website.

• Hits counter

Customisable text-based counter.

• Top commenters list
• Forums

Run separately from the blogs except for the user database (usernames and passwords).

• Polls

User-created polls.

• Quizzes

User-created, highly customisable quizzes.

• Tags

Allows users to search for site-wide post topics.

• Voice posts

Users can post audio recordings over their phone directly to their blog.

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See also

• List of social networking websites

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External links

• GreatestJournal
• GJPix
• Video Section