This page is for blogging social sites that support social network site features. Examples include LiveJournal, Xanga, and Vox.

1998

• ?: Xanga launched as a book and music review sharing site

1999

• 18 March: LiveJournal launches

2000

• 5 November: Xanga began supporting blogging
• 30 November: Xanga introduced email subscriptions
• 8 December: Xanga started supporting comments and eprops

2001

• 17 January: Xanga introduced web-based reader subscriptions so you could read your friends and display your subscriptions on your blog
• 18 January: Xanga started supporting comment tracking
• 6 March: Xanga introduced blog rings
• 1 May: Xanga offered photo uploading services
• 2 September: LiveJournal introduces invite codes

2003

• 15 July: Xanga discontinued anonymous subscriptions (and thus, subscriptions were all visible on your blog)
• 19 Sept: AOL launches AIM Journals (src)
• 2 December: LiveJournal ends invite codes

2004

• 1 February: Xanga relaunched profiles to support lots of info
• 1 April: LiveJournal changed "friend" and "friend of" to "stalking" and "stalked by" for April Fool's
• 27 July: Xanga started supporting multiple profile pics

2005

• 5 January: Six Apart buys LiveJournal
• 30 August: Xanga gave premium members 1Gig of photo storage
• 9 September: Xanga introduced batch photo upload
• 28 September: Xanga started supporting moblogging

2006

• 6 April: Xanga introduced a photoblogging tool
• 6 April: Xanga started supporting all social network site features
• 6 June: Xanga added links to profiles at the top of each Xanga for navigation purposes
• 9 August: Xanga unveiled video blogging
• 29 September: Xanga launched audio blogging

Unkown

• When was Blogger launched? 2001?

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